“Why does Windows still suck”
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Why Does Windows Still Suck?
Why Does Windows Still Suck?
02/05/2005 09:08 PM"Why does Windows still suck?"
"Why does Windows still suck?"
02/07/2005 02:02 AMWhy, oh why, does Windows suck?
Why, oh why, does Windows suck?
02/05/2005 09:35 PMA SFGate columnist (and Mac user) has asked a hot question, but I
think those looking to Microsoft to solve all their ills are missing
part of the social landscape that keeps the company cozy.
SF Gate columnist: 'Why does Windows
still suck?'
SF Gate columnist: 'Why does Windows
still suck?'
02/05/2005 10:09 PMIn an article detailing his experiences with both Macs and
Windows-based PCs, SF Gate columnist Mark Morford asks, "Why Does
Windows Still Suck? Why do PC users put up with so many viruses and
worms? Why isn't everyone on a Mac?" Morford goes on to say: "As every
Windows user knows, PCs are ever waging a losing battle with a
stunningly vicious array of malware and worms and viruses, all aimed
at exploiting one of about ten thousand security flaws and holes in
Microsoft Windows...
Windows 2000 Server Routing and Remote
Access OR I'd Rather Suck a Dead Toad
and HELP !!!
Windows 2000 Server Routing and Remote
Access OR I'd Rather Suck a Dead Toad
and HELP !!!
10/18/2002 06:19 AMWindows 2000 Server Routing and Remote Access OR I'd Rather Suck a
Dead Toad and HELP !!!
Yesterday I wasted an entire day to get close to 0 results. Sigh.
Here's the deal. One of our clients, a non-profit, who specializes in
placing people with disabilities in jobs asked us recently for some
basic networking help. They needed a VPN set up and their internal
network needed to have a "bastion" network server added. A bastion
network server is a single computer with two network cards through
which all Internet traffic passes. It (generally) provides via dhcp
the addresses for a local subnet like 192.168.x.y and is the sole
outside machine that is exposed on the Internet. [ Good Article on
Bastion Networks ]
Right now their ISP has provided them with external IP addresses for
each of their office computers (and server) and they run ZoneAlarm on
each machine to "protect" them. This is one of the more brain dead
ways to run an office lan with Internet access and just plain scares
the crap out of me. DO NOT DO THIS FOR YOUR OFFICE !!! Their IT guy
is one of their staff and NOT a Linux person who does the IT along
with being a full time case worker. I convinced him that this was
unsafe and we should do it with implementing a basic VPN. He had a
licensed copy of Windows 2000 Server and thus began my descent into
the land of "I'd rather suck a dead toad". I do know that some folks
have had really good luck with using Windows 2000 Server for this type
of purpose. I had no luck. None of the options for Windows 2000
Routing and Remote Access worked -- if I got DHCP working then the lan
worked only locally and client machines couldn't see the Internet. If
I setup the VPN options (as per Microsoft's exact directions) then the
server couldn't see the Internet (and stopped responding to external
Pings). Oh and just as a warning to others -- INSTALL SERVICE PACK 3
FIRST. I lost a lot of time since I didn't realize the machine was
missing service pack 3 and apparently none of this stuff works without
SP3. No I can't confirm this with Microsoft's fix list but after
doing an SP3 upgrade then and only then did the NAT options begin
working.
So here's what I'm looking for:
Can a single computer running Windows 2000 Server do this? Serve both
as a bastion host and as an incoming VPN server? Theoretically it is
possible but practically I'm starting to wonder if their setup tools
allow it.
Exact, step by step directions to do this (if they exist). I've done
I can't tell you how many Google queries and there are directions out
there --- but they all are hinted at in the tables of contents of
different books -- not anything like a good Linux How To document.
Alternatives. If Windows 2000 Server isn't a good way to do this then
I can drop a dedicated Linux box on site but I'll end up picking up
the maintenance burden so low maintenance would be good.
One approach I'm considering is a small Linksys hardware firewall
between their outside Internet connection and their internal lan to
provide the DHCP. These boxes, which are generally used for home
networking, are actually quite reliable and since the office only has
a fractional, shared T1, would be fast enough. Since these are only
in the $70 range now, I can just chuck one in for free as a donation
(we're only talking about 5 or 6 machines in the office plus one
server). At a minimum this is safer than Zone Alarm.
Tip #1: The pain started 1st thing when I got their and neither of the
network cards in the bastion host (well the theoretical bastion host)
could ping. Standard IBM etherjet cards that worked perfectly before
going in this box. Know what fixed them? Just moving the graphics
card over one slot and the moving the two network cards over to where
the graphics card was. Go figure. Plug and Play ? Try Plug and Pray
or as I prefer "Plug and sacrifice a goat".
Tip #2: I did expect some problems so I brought along an extra hub
with me which I setup immediately. This let the "bastion" host and
the IT guy's laptop be isolated from the main network preserving
Internet access for everyone else in the office. This way for the 8+
hours that I had to tinker with the beast known as Windows 2000 Server
Routing and Remote Access at least Internet access was preserved.
Note: They're budget strapped and since we've done one big project for
them this fell into the category of free help for good client
relations.
Suck it, NYC!
Suck it, NYC!
06/11/2004 07:56 AM
The latest
affront in a war of
good vs.
evil.
Suck
Suck
12/15/2002 12:23 AMThe store is really messy, so I get to work 3pm to 11pm tomorrow,
Sunday. I get to work until 11pm on a Sunday. Ass.
I Suck
I Suck
11/15/2003 12:02 AMI tried making an AppleScript for iTunes that would change the case of
articles in ID3 tags, I got it to work, but it removed...
Suck on this!
Suck on this!
07/12/2004 08:42 PM
Selfellatio
(NSFW)
[via Jane's
Guide] Webl0ggers Suck
Webl0ggers Suck
03/13/2003 10:23 AMYou're all a bunch of sad, lonely hosers and I've only been blogging
for the last 18 months to work my way into your affections in order to
get to a position of trust from which I could then undermine you all
with my real thoughts and opinions on the subject of blogging. Just to
make you feel bad about humanity. Blow me.
Deadlines still suck
Deadlines still suck
03/26/2005 01:16 PM
Even when you're doing work you love. In other news: today I finally
finished Chapter 14: Blog Your Build Process and Chapter 15: Blog From
a Chat Room.
Sites That Suck
Sites That Suck
04/15/2005 09:55 AMSites
That Suck: This site is worthy of a browse — it's a gallery
of painfully-designed Web sites (sadly, the site itself doesn't look
all that great). I like the use of vacuum cleaners instead of stars to
measure how much a site "sucks," and great commentary like this:
I would assume that at some point, an actual person decided that a
hit counter wasn't enough, and that it needed to be an animated hit
counter that comically rolled at such a speed that it caused you to
imagine traffic so intense that the poor counter couldn't keep up. Oh
the hysteria!
It's in blog format, so there's an RSS feed.
Verbs Suck
Verbs Suck
03/11/2003 11:53 AMJoe Gregorio:
XForms doesn't support the DELETE verb.
I find this very
amusing<
/a>.
Forget SOAP. Forget ReST. Consider the following flow. I POST an
email address to a URL. An SMTP message comes to that address. In
the body of that message is a URL. Issue a GET on that URL. You get
a cookie.
It's just data.
It is a very
big
world out there
Air America Might Not Suck
Air America Might Not Suck
08/05/2004 10:54 PMI've made fun of Air America once before for having way too many
people on staff for a radio station, but things might not look...
All KVMs suck.
All KVMs suck.
04/04/2005 11:57 PMMacInTouch:
All
KVMs suck.but tweakers still suck
but tweakers still suck
04/11/2005 07:45 PM
I
told you Ecstasy was good for you. "The study of Ecstasy for
the terminally ill will involve 12 cancer patients who have less than
a year to live. They'll receive varying doses during two strictly
supervised therapeutic sessions. The drug, once hailed as
'penicillin for the
soul,' is a chemical cousin to amphetamines that reportedly
induces feelings of profound empathy. It will be combined with
traditional psychotherapy, and, [Dr.]
Halpern hopes, 'enable them to open up in therapy so they can talk about
challenging issues and resolve their grief.'" (reg rq'd)
Blogging Tools Suck
Blogging Tools Suck
06/26/2004 05:42 PMpeople *are* more important than tools... i can't disagree with a word
fred's written
We Suck. But Trust Us With Your Web Site
Anyway.
We Suck. But Trust Us With Your Web Site
Anyway.
03/19/2005 02:22 AM
I'm currently looking for a ColdFusion MX
hosting provider (no, I haven't found another shiny object — we
inherited a bunch of sites from someone else).
I thought I had found a good one that was recommended by someone I
trust, but their new customer sign-up interface threw a fatal,
unhandled error halfway through the process.
So I call their tech support and actually had to send them a
screencap of the error screen. Their response:
- You may be missing the CV2 number.
- It could be that you are not using Internet Explorer. (That is the
browser that would need to be used.)
- The security settings may be set too high on your
computer.
I translate this as the following:
- We're not error checking. We prefer to just throw up when we
get something we don't expect.
- We don't support 1 out of every 10 potential customers. New
business is not that important to us.
- Our interface is so poorly designed that it needs to get
unnecessarily friendly with your system. Trust us.
I'm sanctimoniously withholding my business from this company, even
though they met every other criteria I had. Not supporting non-IE
browsers (and not bothering to tell you this or check for it before
you start the process) was enough for me to withdraw.
I don't want to get all philosophical, but this is just sloppy. If
they're this bad with their sign-up system (you know, the system that
puts food on the table), then how can they expect me to trust them
with my Web sites?
So, this leaves me in the market for good ColdFusion MX hosting.
Preferably, I'd like a virtual server on which I can host unlimited
domains (not a dedicated server — I only need like four or five
sites). However, I'll consider anything. And it has to be Windows
(someone else wrote the sites specifically for Windows, we just have
to put them somewhere).
Any recommendations?
IE Tabs Suck Memory Too
IE Tabs Suck Memory Too
06/17/2005 04:33 PMAdam Stiles notes that Microsoft's IE Tabs Suck Memory like there's no
tomorrow: I never considered the possibility that each IE7 tab would
have its own copy of 3rd party toolbars. But that's the direction
Microsoft has taken. What's the problem with that approach? Every time
you open a new browser tab (which tabbed browser users do much more
frequently than single-window browser users), you have to create new
instances of any 3rd-party bars. Ouch. Opening a folder of 25...
MPs slams Customs on suck it and see IT
MPs slams Customs on suck it and see IT
06/22/2004 07:46 AMHey, that's our money you're throwing away
You Can Pay For Your Homework Online,
But Most Likely It Will Suck
You Can Pay For Your Homework Online,
But Most Likely It Will Suck
04/07/2005 02:24 AMIn the last few years, one of the biggest issues that teachers and
professors have had to deal with is that many students are buying
papers off the internet. There are a number of tools, like Turnitin,
that try to catch students in the act, but now some are pointing out
that, students who buy papers online may get "rewarded" in another
way.
Most of the papers are just plain bad and won't get
the student a particularly good grade. Of course, this was hardly a
scientific study. It was just one professor checking out a few
different essays available online. However, it still makes you wonder
what sort of person would buy a paper online when there's absolutely
no way to judge the quality of it? Oh, right, the sort of person who
buys a paper online probably is too clueless to recognize that quality
might matter.
For Speeders, Hybrids Suck Gas
For Speeders, Hybrids Suck Gas
05/21/2004 05:30 AMOne of the biggest selling points for hybrid cars is their
fuel-efficiency, but some disappointed owners still have a case of the
gas-pump blues. They're discovering that, just like with regular cars,
driving styles dictate mileage. By John Gartner.
who says mini-jacks suck?
who says mini-jacks suck?
01/22/2004 02:12 AM How to
convert LPs to CDs. Many audiophiles will mock the software they
suggest using as well as the hardware pictured, but this is aimed for
the everyday people that don't have a
laser turntable or
ProTools
. All in all, a decent introductory guide.
Great Homepages Really Suck
Great Homepages Really Suck
03/11/2003 01:22 AMWebmasterBase Mar 10 2003 6:54PM ET
Data centres suck it up
Data centres suck it up
07/10/2004 01:16 AMSunday Times South Africa Jul 10 2004 5:21AM GMT
Why do Wiki RSS Feeds Suck?
Why do Wiki RSS Feeds Suck?
01/02/2005 02:06 PMI'm a not a big fan of Wiki technology, mostly because I find the
markup annoying and the random nature of Wiki changes difficult to
follow. However, many Wiki software packages offer RSS feeds so that
one can subscribe to a feed of changes in your favorite aggregator.
But they all suck. At least all the ones I've tried do. Rather than
take advantage of the fact that most people are reading RSS feeds in
something capable of displaying HTML,...
Filipinos Suck Eggs
Filipinos Suck Eggs
11/11/2003 06:57 AMIn the Philippines, if you stay out late and get too drunk, don't be
surprised if you wake up the next morning with the taste of boiled
duck fetus on your breath. (11-08)
Why registration-sites suck
Why registration-sites suck
07/20/2004 06:15 AMWired News has a good piece on the backlash against the growing trend
of news-sites requiring logins to read their articles, covering
automated tools like the Mozilla bugmenot plugin that automatically
spoofs your logins to 14,000+ sites.
The point that everyone seems to miss is that no one can possibly keep
track of a thousand passwords for a thousand websites, which means
that these sites undoubtably contain recycled passwords (admonishments
from security experts to never recycle a password are the infosec
equivalent of telling people to "eat less and exercise more" --
simplistic doctrine that is vanishingly unlikely to be adhered to in
the field).
The more you recycle a password, the higher the likelihood that you
will use it in a sensitive context -- a bank site, a message board, an
IM client, an auction site -- where someone might impersonate you or
even commit identity theft crimes against you.
What's even worse is that while these news-sites are willing to spend
the computational cycles necessary to receive your password, none that
I've seen use SSL for their login, which means that the NYT and others
demand that you send your password in the clear when you sit down at a
WiFi cafe and want to read the password. This is a potential disaster
if that NYT password is also a sensitive one somewhere else: it's a
case of really callous disregard for user privacy and security.
Link
Batteries Continue To Suck
Batteries Continue To Suck
11/11/2003 09:15 PMcharter schools suck
charter schools suck
08/18/2004 03:08 PMAFT-funded study .. an NYT
article
nytimes.com/2004/08/17/education/17charter.html
track this
site | 3 links
Critical Update for Windows Media Player
(All Versions) for Windows 2000, Windows
XP, and Windows Server 2003 (KB828026)
Critical Update for Windows Media Player
(All Versions) for Windows 2000, Windows
XP, and Windows Server 2003 (KB828026)
02/11/2004 01:19 AMWhen a content owner creates an audio or video stream, they can add
script commands (such as URL script commands and custom script
commands) to be encoded in the stream. When the stream is played back,
the script commands can trigger events in an embedded player program,
or they can open your browser and then navigate to a Web page. This
behavior is by design
Windows Media Player (All Versions) for
Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Windows
Server 2003 (KB832353)
Windows Media Player (All Versions) for
Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Windows
Server 2003 (KB832353)
04/22/2004 01:20 AMAfter applying the Update for Windows Media Player Script Commands
(KB828026), some URL script commands do not fire even though they
would be expected to do so. In addition to the URL script command
issues, this package addresses an issue with the installer that would
cause 100% CPU utilization in certain scenarios.
Presidential websites pretty much suck
Presidential websites pretty much suck
11/14/2003 11:32 AM
Researchers at Optimization Week have done a study on the
presidential campaign websites and concluded that they pretty much
suck: bloated, inaccessible and noncompliant.
Link
(
Thanks, Andy!)
Alan Reiter on MSN watches: they will
suck
Alan Reiter on MSN watches: they will
suck
01/23/2004 02:20 PMDo those MSN SPOT watches stand a chance? Mobile data pundit Alan
Reiter says (
this) (
and this),
summarized by BB reader John Troyer:
- They're big and ugly
- They need to be recharged daily
- They crash and sometimes die when shocked with static
electricity
- They have to be turned off on planes
- Coverage is spotty compared to pagers and mobile phones
- News blurbs are 25-word useless snippets
- You have to tell MSN when and where you are traveling for it to
work away from your home area!
- Nobody's *ever* made money selling generic headlines, weather and
sports via wireless.
Reiter also says:
"However, syncing with MS Outlook is useful, and Reiter
does believe they could catch on if Microsoft repositions to emphasize
the fun aspects: downloadable watch faces, games, etc. ... [The
watches] look as if they were designed by the Borg, on a very bad day.
Many years ago Motorola introduced its first pager watch, I was there.
I was pretty excited about the product. But when I spoke with a
Motorola executive, he said the company wasn't sure whether the target
market would view the device as a smallest, sexiest pager or as the
world's ugliest watch. Unfortunately for Motorola, the view was the
latter. Pager watches have generally died quick or lingering deaths.
But the operative word is "death."
Link to earlier BoingBoing entry on MSN SPOT Watches
Profiler That Doesn't Suck 0.0.3
(Default branch)
Profiler That Doesn't Suck 0.0.3
(Default branch)
03/27/2005 05:18 AMPTDS is a unique sampling profiler for Java applications. It
can give you immediate feedback about which methods are
executing the most. It also offers a more advanced mode in
which you can control the profiler from within your Java
application. This allows you to get precise information on
specific phases of your algorithm. Also included is a simple
way of measuring the size of individual objects.
Profiler That Doesn't Suck 0.0.4
(Default branch)
Profiler That Doesn't Suck 0.0.4
(Default branch)
04/10/2005 09:49 PM
PTDS is a unique sampling profiler for Java applications. It
can give you immediate feedback about which methods are
executing the most. It also offers a more advanced mode in
which you can control the profiler from within your Java
application. This allows you to get precise information on
specific phases of your algorithm. Also included is a simple
way of measuring the size of individual objects.
Changes:
The ability to track live methods and compiled methods has been added.
A bug with profiling recursive methods has been fixed. A user-friendly
command line interface has been added. The ability to change the
sampling period, the maximum allowable stack height, and the minimum
displayed method rate has been added. Enhancements have been added to
the Java API. Internal refactoring has been performed. The
documentation has been expanded. Note that this release includes
incompatible changes to the Java API.
VoIP terms of service suck
VoIP terms of service suck
08/10/2004 08:59 AMSalshdot takes note of the terrible Terms of Service from many of the
major voice-over-IP providers, including Vonage. I nearly bought a
Vonage subscription three times last year, but each time, their ToS
changed my mind. Who wants to do business with a company that makes
you agree to something really unreasonable before they'll take your
money?
he prime example is Vonage, which states among other things that 'If
Vonage, in its sole discretion believes that you have violated the
above restrictions, Vonage may forward the objectionable material, as
well as your communications with Vonage and your personally
identifiable information to the appropriate authorities for
investigation and prosecution and you hereby consent to such
forwarding.'"
"Don't forget the obligatory 'we can change these terms of service
whenever we like and they become effective immediately when posted to
our website.' Read for yourself here(1), here(2), and here(3). I won't
put up with this kind of thing in my software and I certainly won't
put up with it from my phone company!"
I'm surprised that more VoIP companies don't tout their ToS as
competitive advantages over Vonage -- "Sure they've got a great rate
plan, but if they think you're doing something naughty, they'll rat
you out to the Feds."
LinkWalTunes ToS suck: they 0wn the music
they sell you, not you
WalTunes ToS suck: they 0wn the music
they sell you, not you
12/22/2003 11:19 AMMy co-worker Fred von Lohmann writes: "Wal-Mart launched a music
download site today. Notice the rather breathtaking EULA terms (much
more onerous than the Apple terms) -- Fair Use, First Sale, all other
copyright exceptions are swallowed up by contractual prohibitions.
Just as with software, these restrictions will almost certainly be
selectively enforced against reverse engineers, would-be competitors,
and tinkerers who disrupt the biz model. All backed up by
WinMediaPlayer technical restrictions.
"And all completely useless at preventing Internet redistribution,
since you can presumably record via analog outputs or burn to CD-R and
re-encode to mp3.
"I say again: current DRM has nothing to do with preventing piracy,
everything to do with impairing consumer rights, competition and
innovation."
You are entitled to download, export, burn or copy Products solely for
personal, noncommercial use in accordance with the terms of this
Agreement. Any burning or exporting capabilities are solely an
accommodation to you and shall not constitute a grant or waiver of any
rights of the copyright owners in any Product or in any content, sound
recording, underlying musical composition, artwork or other
copyrightable matter embodied in any Product. No right, title or
interest in any downloaded Products or software is transferred to you
as a result of any downloading or copying or otherwise. All rights in
the Products are owned by WALMART.COM or its licensors and you have
only a limited, nontransferable, nonexclusive, revocable,
nonsublicensable right to use the Products for personal use in
accordance with the terms of this Agreement.
You may not reproduce (except as noted above), publish, transmit,
distribute, display, broadcast, re-broadcast, modify, create
derivative works from, sell or participate in any sale of or exploit
in any way, in whole or in part, directly or indirectly, any of the
Products, the Service or any related software. You may not reverse
engineer, decompile, disassemble, modify or disable any copy
protection or use limitation systems associated with the Products. You
may not play and then re-digitize any Products, or upload those
Products to the Internet. You may not use the Products in conjunction
with any other third-party content (e.g, to provide sound for a film).
You may not sell or offer to sell the Products, including but not
limited to, posting any Product for auction, on any Internet auction
site. All Products are sublicensed to you and not sold,
notwithstanding the use of the terms "sell," "purchase," "order," or
"buy" on the Service or in this Agreement.
L
inkScientists suck hydrogen from sunflower
oil
Scientists suck hydrogen from sunflower
oil
08/27/2004 01:43 PMThe fuel of the future
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