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LOL. I think someone just figured out the scariest possible jack-o-lantern:
(From Boing Boing)
They should have done a spinning ball of death for Mac users too. :)
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Thats hilarious...
With 2.000000000000000003% of the market, the standard passerby wouldn't recognize the significance of the 'spinning ball of death' though.
Repeating my public service announcement:
>E M E R G E N C Y !!!
>>Microsoft said late Wednesday that it plans to break out of its monthly patch cycle to issue a security update today for a critical vulnerability in all supported versions of Windows.
Redmond rarely releases security patches outside of Patch Tuesday, the second Tuesday of each month. The software giant isn't providing many details yet, but the few times it has departed from its Patch Tuesday cycle it has always done so to stop the bleeding on a serious security hole that criminals were using to break into Windows PCs on a large scale.<<
More from Lady F:
>>Microsoft is planning to release the Windows patch at 10 a.m. PT. The company has slated a Webcast to cover specifics about the patch for 1 p.m. PT, according to a posting on the Microsoft Security Response Center blog.
Microsoft hasn’t offered many details about the patch, other than to say it should be applied immediately to Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Windows Server 2003 systems. The flaw being patch is less of an issue for Vista and Windows Server 2008 users, according to the company.<<
Just a touch of OT:
Steve Ballmer on the iPhone’s prospects:
There’s no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share. No chance. It’s a $500 subsidized item. They may make a lot of money.
John C. Dvorak
There is no likelihood that Apple can be successful in a business this competitive.
Title of posting:
"Red Ring of Halloween "
Ocean's moronic thinking.
Oh, an opportunity to post something totally irrelevant to the story!
Once again, having Vista (or WS 2008) means security issues are less severe!
>>Once again, having Vista (or WS 2008) means security issues are less severe!<<
I noticed that.
Question: Wouldn't that make a more compelling ad than "I don't like tweed"?
Ocean
The people who understand things like security event ratings already know about it. The people that don't are better targeted with "I'm a PC and I sell fish" since it speaks to pride of being part of the community rather than geek details that only appeal to a small number of us.
Seriously, could you imagine a Windows ad saying, "we've implemented random virtual address segment to physical address mapping to make buffer overrun exploits more difficult"?
>>The people who understand things like security event ratings already know about it.<<
They are not the ones for whom "I like tweed" was written.
>>could you imagine a Windows ad saying, "we've implemented random virtual address segment to physical address mapping to make buffer overrun exploits more difficult"?<<
No, but you could say what you just said: Experience shows that having Vista means security issues are less severe!"
...then show the proof.
Most people don't want to feel like part of a community based on their PC. Mac users, yeah. The ordinary PC user?
No...its how they do their taxes and access Amazon.com.
Love the image.
The comments don't make much sense beyond the idea that I should start my Windows machines later today to ensure I get the patches.
Ocean
"Most people don't want to feel like part of a community based on their PC. Mac users, yeah. The ordinary PC user?"
Yes. The average PC user wants to feel like they're connected. Yes, they do their taxes on their PC but they also send their birthday cards and send pictures of their kids to their family and chat with their friends and make their business contacts and the hobby contacts and argue politics and do (almost) everything social that they used to do in other ways.
They're a part of not one but many, many communities which grow and shrink and morph and blend and merge.
And they're over a billion strong and they're all interconnected in a virtual mesh of people and devices.
johnbaxter
The patch is out there now (At least I already was able to download and install it) but, again, it's critical only if you are running an older OS. It's still important for Vista and WS2K8 but assuming you have the install critical updates setting in Windows Update turned on, it'll install during the next time your system updates itself.
>>Yes. The average PC user wants to feel like they're connected. <<
Yes...but all that is based on *other* relationships. We think the same. We're blood relatives. We work together. The PC is the medium, and once the connection is up, is seldom talked about.
It's never, ever "We both use Vista Ultimate -- we should be pals", at least not for the ordinary user.
Mac users (and yes, this is creepy) will bond over hardware at the coffeeshop the same way two unknown-to-each-other Prius drivers will stop and spend 30 minutes talking during a random meeting in a parking garage.
>> they're over a billion strong and they're all interconnected in a virtual mesh of people and devices.<<
You're creeping me out Mike.
"And they're over a billion strong and they're all interconnected in a virtual mesh of people and devices."
...and yet, y'all get offended when someone refers to Microsoft as "The Borg".
"And they're over a billion strong and they're all interconnected in a virtual mesh of people and devices."
"...and yet, y'all get offended when someone refers to Microsoft as "The Borg"."
....and so do Mac users when people say they're just a bunch of trolls coming out from under the same bridge, or from the closet, or whatever....
Well, borg or troll (or lemming)...
Did you know that DRWAM got a good laptop for $400?
Did you know I drive a Jag XJ Series, and I run Vista Enterprise on a 3 year old Dell and it runs GREAT!
You are erratic, conflicted, disorganised. Every decision is debated, every action questioned. Every individual entitled to their own small opinion. You lack harmony, cohesion, greatness. It will be your undoing.
Mike,
Yes, the update will appear next time Vista checks for updates. And it (2 actually) did (installing/restarting now). The point of turning on the machine was so that would happen. (The second machine is dual booted on this iMac, so it will wait until after the workday.)
Upon restart, I'll look and see what came in--I suspect the description is suitably scary. (And word will be carried to the computer club gathering in the morning.)
You are erratic, conflicted, disorganised. Every decision is debated, every action questioned. Every individual entitled to their own small opinion. You lack harmony, cohesion, greatness. It will be your undoing.I love Seven of Nine (lol) :-))
johnbaxter
Not that scary. It's a security vulnerability (probably a buffer overflow) in the RPC parser in the Server service.
The RPC update is scary enough, but benign given my border firewall situation (same is true of the other place I use the laptop). But worth installing.
Silverlight 2 (or an update thereto) from Oct 20 also crept in. Certainly better to thave that than to continue running the beta.
I don't believe the machine had been on since Sunday the 19th, hence Silverlight hadn't arrived.
Nice avatar, Wae. Good to see you giving credit to the techs at your Bargain Basement PC Hut.
"Nice avatar, Wae."
Nice avatar yourself. You're a nobody after all.
wae can haz ikon
(am I the only one mind boggling tired of lolcat stuff)
You beat me to it Mike! But yes, I have automatic updates enabled on my Vista $400 laptop.
Now that is freaking hilarious! Course one of Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Steve Ballmer, and Steve Wozniak would be pretty interesting to see.
How did they get the pumpkin to have that cool red glow! :)
The spinning ball of death? Unfortunately, it would probably be difficult to accomplish.....gotta have some kind of servo or something in there to keep a multicolored something (flashlight?) spinning....and very rapidly! That stupid ball flies!....it's also not scary.....it's kind of "pleasing", until you realize that you're never coming back alive from it!
Mike Galos...it's nice to see you commenting rationally for a change.........although a little creepy with the "mesh of ..." comment....but nonetheless, it seems like you've taken your "chill pill" for now. Well done!
You could possibly do the spinning ball with one of those small multicolored spinning 'disco lights' from 5 Below. They spin around, are multicolored and the small ones could fit in an average pumpkin.
So, here's how Ocean's reportedly on-topic posting goes:
There's one line about the article in question, something like, "RROD sucks," followed by a series of quotes from other people or pasted material from other blogs, for instance:
"In other news, Steve Jobs says Windows sucks."
" '...Microsoft sucks more than any other company did so far...'
So true."
and so on...
It's like a freaking RSS feed or an aggregator service from all these anti-MS blogs. There's a reason that the Mac fans don't get irritated with this kind of behavior and instead target Mike Galos. Obviously!
I'm not saying the others don't post off topic comments. I don't think anyone else does it this way.
DRWAM,
Good idea...but that will produce a spinning along the wrong axis of rotation....those disco balls rotate around the Y-axis, but the Beach Ball of Death on the Mac rotates around what would be the Z-axis....
Although, it still might work.
"It's like a freaking RSS feed or an aggregator service from all these anti-MS blogs. There's a reason that the Mac fans don't get irritated with this kind of behavior and instead target Mike Galos. Obviously!"
Now we now where papsmear got the info about OS X battery life - it's on the freaking front page!
If DF goes down, pappy's got nothing.
I have added winsupersite.com to my url blocker in the hope that I don't visit here again. Can't believe the time I wasted in some of the really sad arguments on here. If Paul had any sense he would take away the forums as they are an embarrassment to anyone who wants to have some gravitas.
Time to channel my efforts to something more worthwhile.
Bye Bye
Hey, don't let the virtual door hit you on the way out, scooby!
Now, I love LOL cats. IM IN UR TUBES, BLOCKING UR INTERNETZ!
"I have added winsupersite.com to my url blocker in the hope that I don't visit here again."
....one less bonch.
DRWAM...
Sometimes I need to thin outside of the box a little bit more....but don't you think that it would be too heavy to mount in the side? I don't know the mechanics of pumpkin wall strength. LOL :)
How's that $400 laptop running Vista? Maybe it can quickly crunch some numbers and let us know if mounting the disco ball in the inside wall instead of the top of the pumpkin can produce the desired Beach Ball of Death look?
Set that $400 laptop running Vista on the path!
The "Mini Disco Ball" does include velcro to 'attach to any surface'. Or you can mount the ball on the bottom of the pumpkin and turn the pumpkin on it's side. There were plenty of them with a flattened side at the pumpkin patch last weekend. People tend to leave them and take the better shaped ones with less defects as they pay by the pound.
Another lighting option that could work, is the guts of those fibre optic Crimbo trees.
We have several that have a little electric motor that drives a coloured circular filter, which is placed in between the light source and the fibre optics.
The motor/bulb/disc assembly has minimal mass, and could be quite easily be mounted horizontaly in the side of a pumpkin
However, even if the disco ball was too heavy, you could always mount is sideways on to something more sturdy than a pumpkin wall, and then mount THAT to the bottom of the pumpkin. I'm sure it would be quite simple to assemble such a bracket, even out of Lego or something.
Yep, and it only cost 400 bucks.
But I did have a hard time stuffing a Christmas tree in a pumpkin.
I talked to my sis about her $400 laptop this moning...she still loves it...hasn't even had one issue with it. In fact...she sent me an email from her work, where they are selling off some old ACERs that they used...sans OS for the same $400. Her's and Doc's is a much better lappy...and costs the same. I pitty da foos that missed out on that bargain.
Oh, and Mike...you seem especially cheery and sensible today...fired up for PDC?
--tayme
If it was me, I would strip the casing off about 10 meters of 60nm fiber optic cable, loosely coil it on a spool drop the spool in the pumpkin, put SC connectors on the ends, and connect one end into my Brocade 48000 and the other end into a EMC Symmetrix, zone it out on the SAN, allocate several terabytes of storage to my Vista workstation and download the entire Zune Marketplace library...it is subscription based, you know.
--tayme
tayme
Wish I were going to the PDC but really psyched both at what is about to be announced and that I'll finally be out of NDA on a lot of things - some of them that I've had to keep quiet about for several years now.
This is really a game changing couple of weeks coming up.
Gorath, you mean that you didn't want to use the entire tree? Oops! Wow, will my wife be upset.
