Team #306 has been holding down some top positions over the years, considering it's a team entirely made of hard working students, and not a bunch of kids who let the engineers tell them what to do.
FIRST is about the kids working out the designs and design problems, not about following instructions to some Lego-kit. Team 306 has always left every part of the work up to the students, which is why they've always been one of my favorites to watch online, since I've started following along online.
If you don't watch the competition online, I encourage it - it's agood time, and the quality of the video feeds has increased over the years (as expected, but nevertheless...).
DVORAK is the same thing as Linux - a LOT people use it for bragging rights, not because they genuinely like it better. I'm not saying that's the majority - but there's no denying that people out there just do it for the attention.
Seriously though... out of 2000 "off the street" Americans, how many do you honestly think even know what a "Rootkit" is - or whether or not they may even be infected with one!? This stuff might matter here on Slashdot, but seriously? The American Public? Of course Sony is going to have high rankings among the public - nobody 'forgave and forgot' about rootkits, the public never even paid attention to them.
I watched these videos and thought "that seems too fast to be the $100 XO laptop." Found out it's an emulator, and you can download it and check it out too. http://www.winbreak.com/olpc.htm
I can (somewhat) understand the handful of moronic users out there that believe in Security through Obscurity - but if the parent company REALLY believes that!???? Some day there will be a MASSIVE wake up call for mac users - and, apparantly, Apple.
Nu
Apple screws up and they take a stab at MICROSOFT????? BECAUSE THEIR Egnineers are too DUMB to run a virus scan on a final product before it ships? ARE YOU SERIOUS???? How can they even THINK FOR A SPLIT SECOND about doing that? Blame Windows because your "engineers" are too friggin STUPID to update their virus def's? Call Windows insecure, but at least the majority of Windows' USERS are smarter than Apples engineers!!!!!
Pull the plug... then put it back.
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First off, EXCELLENT question, and what better place to ask!?
My moment of Computer Voodoo that I've seen work for me MORE than once (two laptops, and a desktop, to my immediate recollection) - a machine that refused to start when you pushed the power button - or else components would come up to speed but the screen would remain black and no beep code occured...
I pulled the power cord from the unit, left the cord plugged in to the wall (in the laptop's case, the battery was @ 0% capacity, so it wouldn't turn on without being plugged in), HELD the power button down, and plugged the unit back in. It fired up immediately.
No rhyme or reason. But it's become one of my 'last ditch effort' tricks in the bag.
"show me the average home user who doesn't runs XP as administrator. Do they think that anything is going to change for Vista?"
-Yes. Because, by default, you won't perform an install as administrator. The Default user will be a power user. You'll have to be at least smart enough to log in as administrator and/or creat a 2nd administrator account to be signed on as an administrator.
The default user will no longer be admin.
Though, as of right now, even a "guest" user with limited privledges, has a way of signing on as an account higher than Administrator - it was also unveiled at the conference this week.
Nevertheless - by the time Vista ships, there will be safeguards in place. You have to log in as administrator - AND the attacker that found the flaw had to run in virutalization - with the new plan for the DRIVER layer of the Kernel, by the time Vista ships, this won't be allowed, either (driver rating system, etc al.).
These are called "Slashbacks." Yes, they are a SUMMARY of what people have to say about a recent "major" event, one that generates a lot of talk.
You might've noticed them in existance for SEVERAL YEARS if you've ever been to this site before.
First off, I'd like to actually THANK everyone who replied. All of the information was very helpful. I'll be looking into WSUS to fulfill my needs. We currently have an in house server running good ol' Windows NT (no internet connection to it, so we're not worried about security exploits or anything). I thought about using that computer to try WSUS, but then I remembered an unused Windows 2000 Server lisence we have laying around since pulling a machine out of the loop! And with some money in the budget, I can put together a new machine that will serve this job perfect.
2nd, a reason I couldn't just do scheduled or 'automatic updates' with these computers is because I use a program called "Deep Freeze" from Faronics (see: http://faronics.com/index.asp). It basically keeps the computers in a specific state until you tell te software to "thaw" and then reboot. Then, you have to "freeze" the partition and reboot again once changes are finished. Automating some tasks can be a pain - but the benefits of this software in our work environment far outweigh any annoyances.
Autopatcher sounds like it'll be nice for home use... sort of a single download and deploy method, rather than having to wait for Windows Update to do its long winded tasks.
Thanks for the info, everyone, it's been great, and I'm sure you've all given ideas to many others in my same situation!
Garrett C.
a.k.a. NuAngel of WinBreak.
Slashdot Mirror
Hours before this got Slashdotted, I blogged the inaccuracies... the fact that there WAS NO ACTUAL RECALL, for starters...
Team #306 has been holding down some top positions over the years, considering it's a team entirely made of hard working students, and not a bunch of kids who let the engineers tell them what to do. FIRST is about the kids working out the designs and design problems, not about following instructions to some Lego-kit. Team 306 has always left every part of the work up to the students, which is why they've always been one of my favorites to watch online, since I've started following along online. If you don't watch the competition online, I encourage it - it's agood time, and the quality of the video feeds has increased over the years (as expected, but nevertheless...).
DVORAK is the same thing as Linux - a LOT people use it for bragging rights, not because they genuinely like it better. I'm not saying that's the majority - but there's no denying that people out there just do it for the attention.
Seriously though... out of 2000 "off the street" Americans, how many do you honestly think even know what a "Rootkit" is - or whether or not they may even be infected with one!? This stuff might matter here on Slashdot, but seriously? The American Public? Of course Sony is going to have high rankings among the public - nobody 'forgave and forgot' about rootkits, the public never even paid attention to them.
Link on my website now updated to have LiveCD version of the OS.
I watched these videos and thought "that seems too fast to be the $100 XO laptop." Found out it's an emulator, and you can download it and check it out too.
http://www.winbreak.com/olpc.htm
I can (somewhat) understand the handful of moronic users out there that believe in Security through Obscurity - but if the parent company REALLY believes that!???? Some day there will be a MASSIVE wake up call for mac users - and, apparantly, Apple. Nu
Apple screws up and they take a stab at MICROSOFT????? BECAUSE THEIR Egnineers are too DUMB to run a virus scan on a final product before it ships? ARE YOU SERIOUS???? How can they even THINK FOR A SPLIT SECOND about doing that? Blame Windows because your "engineers" are too friggin STUPID to update their virus def's? Call Windows insecure, but at least the majority of Windows' USERS are smarter than Apples engineers!!!!!
My moment of Computer Voodoo that I've seen work for me MORE than once (two laptops, and a desktop, to my immediate recollection) - a machine that refused to start when you pushed the power button - or else components would come up to speed but the screen would remain black and no beep code occured...
I pulled the power cord from the unit, left the cord plugged in to the wall (in the laptop's case, the battery was @ 0% capacity, so it wouldn't turn on without being plugged in), HELD the power button down, and plugged the unit back in. It fired up immediately.
No rhyme or reason. But it's become one of my 'last ditch effort' tricks in the bag.
That is what the poster implied. If you think this is NOT the "Most Secure Windows Yet" then I encourage you to run Windows 95 for a week. Winbreak
That's MICROSOFT'S MOST SECURE OS YET - not THE WORLD'S MOST SECURE - Microsfot's "best yet." Learn the language before bitching about it, please.
"show me the average home user who doesn't runs XP as administrator. Do they think that anything is going to change for Vista?" -Yes. Because, by default, you won't perform an install as administrator. The Default user will be a power user. You'll have to be at least smart enough to log in as administrator and/or creat a 2nd administrator account to be signed on as an administrator. The default user will no longer be admin. Though, as of right now, even a "guest" user with limited privledges, has a way of signing on as an account higher than Administrator - it was also unveiled at the conference this week. Nevertheless - by the time Vista ships, there will be safeguards in place. You have to log in as administrator - AND the attacker that found the flaw had to run in virutalization - with the new plan for the DRIVER layer of the Kernel, by the time Vista ships, this won't be allowed, either (driver rating system, etc al.).
These are called "Slashbacks." Yes, they are a SUMMARY of what people have to say about a recent "major" event, one that generates a lot of talk. You might've noticed them in existance for SEVERAL YEARS if you've ever been to this site before.
First off, I'd like to actually THANK everyone who replied. All of the information was very helpful. I'll be looking into WSUS to fulfill my needs. We currently have an in house server running good ol' Windows NT (no internet connection to it, so we're not worried about security exploits or anything). I thought about using that computer to try WSUS, but then I remembered an unused Windows 2000 Server lisence we have laying around since pulling a machine out of the loop! And with some money in the budget, I can put together a new machine that will serve this job perfect. 2nd, a reason I couldn't just do scheduled or 'automatic updates' with these computers is because I use a program called "Deep Freeze" from Faronics (see: http://faronics.com/index.asp). It basically keeps the computers in a specific state until you tell te software to "thaw" and then reboot. Then, you have to "freeze" the partition and reboot again once changes are finished. Automating some tasks can be a pain - but the benefits of this software in our work environment far outweigh any annoyances. Autopatcher sounds like it'll be nice for home use... sort of a single download and deploy method, rather than having to wait for Windows Update to do its long winded tasks. Thanks for the info, everyone, it's been great, and I'm sure you've all given ideas to many others in my same situation! Garrett C. a.k.a. NuAngel of WinBreak.
Can someone clarify? Is it FLOCK? Is it Cardinal? Is it a program called cardinal from a company called flock? WTH?