I've never run into anything like this before in about 3 decades of working...anywhere any business. Contracting or direct...
Ok? That doesn't mean it's not the correct way to store files in an organization.
private or govt/dod....
Like the government has any competent IT people.
Honestly this is news to me. I'll admit, I don't use windows that often, but, aside from the places I've used it where they did lock it down...nothing I know of was managed with the network backing up stuff specifically from My Documents.
Nothing you know of. Maybe that's because you're the mutant freak who doesn't use it like everybody else on Earth. Most likely, your empty My Documents folder was being religiously backed-up, and they didn't bother telling you because everybody already knows that.
Actually now that I think about it, it's even a level of stupid above and beyond that.
If you're not using My Documents, it means that you're almost certainly running as Admin all the time (again, assuming that you're not re-authenticating every single time you open a file), which means that you're a hundred times more likely to get infected by the virus in the first place. If you were running as User, (or the fake-o Admin account Vista and Windows 7 use) the virus wouldn't be able to install itself anywhere to effectively reside on your computer.
So not only does this dumb method of storing files not protect you from a virus, it makes you a dozen times more likely to get the data-deleting virus in the first place.
If this is the reason you're not using My Documents, all I can say is: engage your brain.
Since the virus is running on your user account, it doesn't really matter where you put the files assuming you yourself have access to them. It can delete them all the same.
Now, if you're putting your folders on C: (or somewhere outside the normal permissions system) and using Run As... every time you access one, then yes, that would add a layer of security, however it would also be a humongous pain in the ass.
The real difference is that your entire organization is set up to protect files in My Documents. If your files were there, they probably exist in other forms: 1) File server 2) File server backups 3) Shadowcopy repository (which viruses have no access to, BTW)
If your shit's in a folder called "proj_web1" on the C: drive, then there's no backups at all. Even Shadowcopy doesn't bother with folders that aren't supposed to contain user data.
In short, that's a weak, weak defense of not using My Documents. The only real reason people avoid it is either, "all my computing habits were set-in-stone in 1988 and I'm a obstinate ass who refuses to change" or "I have absolutely no idea how computer networks work." Or some combination of the two.
Isn't it a hint that you're doing something wrong when you have to set yourself as Admin to do it at all? That features like Shadowcopy and Bitlocker don't even work on non-My Documents folders?
I mean, how much more hinting could Microsoft possibly do to nudge you in the right direction?
The problem with this plan is two-fold: 1) The gas isn't centralized. Where it is (say, sealed garbage dumps), methane is already harvested and used. 2) Setting this up is far, far more expensive than just buying your gas from the local utility company. Why would anybody bother if it doesn't save them money and they have to attach balloons to cow asses for the rest of their lives?
Let's for the moment ignore the question of why someone would stomp a cat to death with high heels, gloss right over the question of why someone would film themselves stomping a cat to death with high heels, and head right into the most salient question:
Why would someone who filmed themselves stomping a cat to death with high heels put the video on the web?
Seriously, WTF is going through these people's heads. What did she think was going to happen? "YouTube.cn Featured Video of the Day!" or something?
More to the point, World of Warcraft has "realistic graphics?" Even if you ignore the art style, which is as far from realistic as you can get, the engine is something like 5-10 years older than all the other games listed there and quite frankly looks like ass.
I wish people would proofread before they publish an article that thousands will read.
If only you could somehow combine the two concepts into one... like, for example, making your multiple folders *inside* the "My Documents" folder... that would be brilliant!
Yah, there are like three under the hood changes. Superfetch and the Search Indexer are both slightly less aggressive, since Vista users bitched and moaned about their drives running when they weren't doing anything. A lot of services that were set to Enabled were changed to Delay Load. And... uh... that's all I'm aware of.
Outside of Microsoft's control, there was also: 3 years of advancing hardware performance, and 3 years of hardware makers finally figuring out how to write drivers again. Both of those enhance 7's usability, but Microsoft has no (direct) control over them.
Visually is where the "major" difference is, that difference being the Start Bar. Other than that, it's virtually identical to Vista.
Yes, Windows 7 isn't terrible, but it lacks the user-friendlyness and universal knowledge that XP had.
When you use weasel-words like "universal knowledge" (what the hell does that even mean?), it's hard for people to refute you. But Microsoft does indeed do usability testing, a lot of it, and Windows 7 is provably more user friendly than Windows XP. (And since it's bound to come up: so is Office 2007.)
And Vista might be "considered trash," but it's also measurably superior to XP-- in fact I think it says something that Vista and Windows 7 are virtually identical, yet for some reason 7 is liked and Vista is hated. (What it says? Slashdotters make knee-jerk snap decisions.)
Usability isn't about hand-waving or saying "I think this color looks nice," it's about sitting people in front of your product and watching them use it. It's about defining a task, and measuring how well they complete it using your OS. It's about statistics, not hunches. Most divisions of Microsoft do that consistently and habitually. (Some don't.)
In that rant, I'm not saying to say anything about this move from Ubuntu-- for all I know the new UI is great, I haven't used it yet, and I haven't seen any of their decision-making process. I'm just saying that your statement about XP is plain wrong.
Once of the nice features of RDP is transmission of sound from your computer so I can, for example, listen to my voicemail when remoted into my office computer. Does FreeNX support that?
Yah I know, except at the time I took that screenshot: 1) The font color and background color were nearly identical, making it impossible to see the !. (Unless YOU can see it in that screenshot, maybe you have a better monitor than mine.) 2) The rollover was implemented in such a way that it was completely impossible to click it. The instant you moved your mouse towards it to click it, it would disappear.
Is this the first time you've been exposed to an alternate reality game? The last time it was fresh (IMO) was the Halo 2 "I Love Bees" thing. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Love_Bees
I find it refreshing you can be so excited about something so... musty.
Don't know about China, but I read about one guy in a similar situation in Belgrade, where at the time they sold gasoline for cars in open buckets on the side of the road. Some of the gas was high quality, and others was cheap and could ruin your car. This guy built a relationship with a 'supplier' (who was named Stevo, from Zemun), and paid him extra to make sure he always got him the high quality stuff.
I predict they are seriously mistaken in forgetting about ARM processors in their analysis. ARM processors have taken over pretty much all the mobile and a lot of the netbook space.
Mobile I'll give you, but netbook?
When's the last time you saw a ARM netbook? If you've ever seen one? Sure, you read articles on Slashdot saying that they'll be here Any Day Now! But they aren't. I think there was one model in Fry's for a short while-- that's about it. Unless you count the numerous vaporware-spouting websites.
And, frankly, Atom has such a lead in the netbook space now, it's basically done as far as ARM is considered. They've wasted too much time, assuming anybody was even working on this mythical product to start with. At this point, an ARM-powered netbook would *really* have to blow the competition away for people to even take a second look. It's not happening.
Western children today are inheriting a legacy of squandered resources, environmental destruction, and increased global competition.
Yeah!
We should have learned from those wise and noble Easter Island natives! I'm sure as the last tree on the entire island was cut down, that Easter Islander was thinking to himself, "I can't believe how those westerners are squandering their resources! Their poor kids!"
Eclipse has Visual Studio beaten six ways from Sunday for anyone who isn't a click-and-drag programming monkey.
No way. VS's debugger alone wipes the floor with Eclipse's. I can start from JScript, dive into C#, and step through freakin' GPU shader language code without ever switching debuggers. I've never seen another environment capable of that.
Or maybe my opinion is invalid because I'm just a "click-and-drag programming monkey." But, hey, when the click-and-drag programming monkeys are more productive than you, and giving their company more bang-for-the-buck, maybe you should be paying attention.
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I haven't seen any evidence of them doing that with any other platform they've released with the exception of Xbox360 and Xbox Live.
The Xbox 360 is a hell of a lot more open than all the other current game consoles. Take a look at the XNA program.
I've never run into anything like this before in about 3 decades of working...anywhere any business. Contracting or direct...
Ok? That doesn't mean it's not the correct way to store files in an organization.
private or govt/dod....
Like the government has any competent IT people.
Honestly this is news to me. I'll admit, I don't use windows that often, but, aside from the places I've used it where they did lock it down...nothing I know of was managed with the network backing up stuff specifically from My Documents.
Nothing you know of. Maybe that's because you're the mutant freak who doesn't use it like everybody else on Earth. Most likely, your empty My Documents folder was being religiously backed-up, and they didn't bother telling you because everybody already knows that.
Actually now that I think about it, it's even a level of stupid above and beyond that.
If you're not using My Documents, it means that you're almost certainly running as Admin all the time (again, assuming that you're not re-authenticating every single time you open a file), which means that you're a hundred times more likely to get infected by the virus in the first place. If you were running as User, (or the fake-o Admin account Vista and Windows 7 use) the virus wouldn't be able to install itself anywhere to effectively reside on your computer.
So not only does this dumb method of storing files not protect you from a virus, it makes you a dozen times more likely to get the data-deleting virus in the first place.
If this is the reason you're not using My Documents, all I can say is: engage your brain.
Since the virus is running on your user account, it doesn't really matter where you put the files assuming you yourself have access to them. It can delete them all the same.
Now, if you're putting your folders on C: (or somewhere outside the normal permissions system) and using Run As... every time you access one, then yes, that would add a layer of security, however it would also be a humongous pain in the ass.
The real difference is that your entire organization is set up to protect files in My Documents. If your files were there, they probably exist in other forms:
1) File server
2) File server backups
3) Shadowcopy repository (which viruses have no access to, BTW)
If your shit's in a folder called "proj_web1" on the C: drive, then there's no backups at all. Even Shadowcopy doesn't bother with folders that aren't supposed to contain user data.
In short, that's a weak, weak defense of not using My Documents. The only real reason people avoid it is either, "all my computing habits were set-in-stone in 1988 and I'm a obstinate ass who refuses to change" or "I have absolutely no idea how computer networks work." Or some combination of the two.
Isn't it a hint that you're doing something wrong when you have to set yourself as Admin to do it at all? That features like Shadowcopy and Bitlocker don't even work on non-My Documents folders?
I mean, how much more hinting could Microsoft possibly do to nudge you in the right direction?
Are you volunteering to plug in all the nozzles?
The problem with this plan is two-fold:
1) The gas isn't centralized. Where it is (say, sealed garbage dumps), methane is already harvested and used.
2) Setting this up is far, far more expensive than just buying your gas from the local utility company. Why would anybody bother if it doesn't save them money and they have to attach balloons to cow asses for the rest of their lives?
Let's for the moment ignore the question of why someone would stomp a cat to death with high heels, gloss right over the question of why someone would film themselves stomping a cat to death with high heels, and head right into the most salient question:
Why would someone who filmed themselves stomping a cat to death with high heels put the video on the web?
Seriously, WTF is going through these people's heads. What did she think was going to happen? "YouTube.cn Featured Video of the Day!" or something?
If you're going to write a tl;dr summary, put it at the *top* so people don't have to go through the too long version to read it.
More to the point, World of Warcraft has "realistic graphics?" Even if you ignore the art style, which is as far from realistic as you can get, the engine is something like 5-10 years older than all the other games listed there and quite frankly looks like ass.
I wish people would proofread before they publish an article that thousands will read.
If only you could somehow combine the two concepts into one... like, for example, making your multiple folders *inside* the "My Documents" folder... that would be brilliant!
Oh well, a man can dream, I guess...
Cool. I can't believe people still make remote control software without that feature, frankly.
Although your second sentence really makes me wonder why they don't just change the name...
Yah, there are like three under the hood changes. Superfetch and the Search Indexer are both slightly less aggressive, since Vista users bitched and moaned about their drives running when they weren't doing anything. A lot of services that were set to Enabled were changed to Delay Load. And... uh... that's all I'm aware of.
Outside of Microsoft's control, there was also: 3 years of advancing hardware performance, and 3 years of hardware makers finally figuring out how to write drivers again. Both of those enhance 7's usability, but Microsoft has no (direct) control over them.
Visually is where the "major" difference is, that difference being the Start Bar. Other than that, it's virtually identical to Vista.
Yes, Windows 7 isn't terrible, but it lacks the user-friendlyness and universal knowledge that XP had.
When you use weasel-words like "universal knowledge" (what the hell does that even mean?), it's hard for people to refute you. But Microsoft does indeed do usability testing, a lot of it, and Windows 7 is provably more user friendly than Windows XP. (And since it's bound to come up: so is Office 2007.)
And Vista might be "considered trash," but it's also measurably superior to XP-- in fact I think it says something that Vista and Windows 7 are virtually identical, yet for some reason 7 is liked and Vista is hated. (What it says? Slashdotters make knee-jerk snap decisions.)
Usability isn't about hand-waving or saying "I think this color looks nice," it's about sitting people in front of your product and watching them use it. It's about defining a task, and measuring how well they complete it using your OS. It's about statistics, not hunches. Most divisions of Microsoft do that consistently and habitually. (Some don't.)
In that rant, I'm not saying to say anything about this move from Ubuntu-- for all I know the new UI is great, I haven't used it yet, and I haven't seen any of their decision-making process. I'm just saying that your statement about XP is plain wrong.
Are you a professional or amateur Joker?
What about sound?
Once of the nice features of RDP is transmission of sound from your computer so I can, for example, listen to my voicemail when remoted into my office computer. Does FreeNX support that?
Yah I know, except at the time I took that screenshot:
1) The font color and background color were nearly identical, making it impossible to see the !. (Unless YOU can see it in that screenshot, maybe you have a better monitor than mine.)
2) The rollover was implemented in such a way that it was completely impossible to click it. The instant you moved your mouse towards it to click it, it would disappear.
Like I said, some of those bugs have been fixed (although the bugs in the bugtracker have never been *marked* as fixed.) Slashdot development is basically a classic Developmestuction Environment: http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/The_Developmestuction_Environment.aspx
The evil one was the contractor who installed a computer-controlled deadly neurotoxin pipe that vents into the building.
The computer is second-degree evil, at best.
Is this the first time you've been exposed to an alternate reality game? The last time it was fresh (IMO) was the Halo 2 "I Love Bees" thing. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Love_Bees
I find it refreshing you can be so excited about something so... musty.
So don't fucking use it. Why bother posting rants?
Don't know about China, but I read about one guy in a similar situation in Belgrade, where at the time they sold gasoline for cars in open buckets on the side of the road. Some of the gas was high quality, and others was cheap and could ruin your car. This guy built a relationship with a 'supplier' (who was named Stevo, from Zemun), and paid him extra to make sure he always got him the high quality stuff.
Ah! So that's what happened to Steve-O!
I'm guessing he was also drinking the gasoline.
Now, in 2010 the web experience "requires" a browser, Flash, Adobe Reader, Java run-time,
In what strange alternate reality does the web require Java in 2010?
Is Bill Joy President of the United States in your reality?
I predict they are seriously mistaken in forgetting about ARM processors in their analysis. ARM processors have taken over pretty much all the mobile and a lot of the netbook space.
Mobile I'll give you, but netbook?
When's the last time you saw a ARM netbook? If you've ever seen one? Sure, you read articles on Slashdot saying that they'll be here Any Day Now! But they aren't. I think there was one model in Fry's for a short while-- that's about it. Unless you count the numerous vaporware-spouting websites.
And, frankly, Atom has such a lead in the netbook space now, it's basically done as far as ARM is considered. They've wasted too much time, assuming anybody was even working on this mythical product to start with. At this point, an ARM-powered netbook would *really* have to blow the competition away for people to even take a second look. It's not happening.
Western children today are inheriting a legacy of squandered resources, environmental destruction, and increased global competition.
Yeah!
We should have learned from those wise and noble Easter Island natives! I'm sure as the last tree on the entire island was cut down, that Easter Islander was thinking to himself, "I can't believe how those westerners are squandering their resources! Their poor kids!"
Have you bothered to try the alternatives? (Bing, in this case?)
Eclipse has Visual Studio beaten six ways from Sunday for anyone who isn't a click-and-drag programming monkey.
No way. VS's debugger alone wipes the floor with Eclipse's. I can start from JScript, dive into C#, and step through freakin' GPU shader language code without ever switching debuggers. I've never seen another environment capable of that.
Or maybe my opinion is invalid because I'm just a "click-and-drag programming monkey." But, hey, when the click-and-drag programming monkeys are more productive than you, and giving their company more bang-for-the-buck, maybe you should be paying attention.
Isn't that example directly from the book? Or maybe from another usability book I read around the same time...