er... its pretty straightforward

click windows icon, start typing the subject in the search box

netw

pops up several categories - programs, control panel, documents and pictures, each showing a count of that substring somewhere in the properties (name, content) or the metadata (tags for pictures etc) and containing the most likely choices based upon defaults or previous clickage by the user

continue on with

network

and the results get finer, but are still roughly the same. Move on to

network st

and the results get pretty sharp - I get "view network status and tasks" under the control panel section, amongst others.

That same paradigm works for pretty much everything - its very, very easy to get to apps, documents (even the ones that haven't been recently accessed,) control panel settings etc. Of course you still have to click stuff here and there and there's still a bit of a learning curve (typing network conn will not get you to network connections, but typing network ada will, for instance,) but overall it makes dealing with the computer significantly easier.

RFC 1149:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RFC1149

you're misunderstanding what Google and Bing did. Bing did not use Google's ranking as an input, they used the fact that the user (who opted into the whole process) clicked on a link provided by Google. Very different implications.

seconded =)

btw Pookemon you spelt "dyslexia" wrong in your sig.

=)

How was the parent's post Insightful?? He added nothing to the discussion and whitewashed the whole thing as "not the solution to anything." Seems a rather blunt and ignorant statement.

Why is it not the solution to anything? What makes it inferior to the other options out there? What other options ARE there that perform the same functions?

Insightful != Agree

/me searches for his bottle of Caol Ila
/me realizes he hasn't bought it yet because HIS share of the higher salaries hasn't come through yet
/me frowns in consternation and turns to his bottle of Jack in the meantime

bodes well for the article's accuracy that its based upon actual placements rather than a "salary survey." Here's to a slightly higher salary in '11! *clinks rum & coke glass with the slashdotter next to him*

Your examples all seem to relate to a single machine. Group policy exists to support customized configurations across multiple machines which can vary in their OS and hardware.

Take any of your examples and expand them to hundreds or thousands of machines (servers, workstations, kiosks - doesn't matter) across your enterprise then you'll have a more accurate idea of its capabilities.

One of the beauties of the way gp works is that machines or users that are added or moved in such a way that new or different policies apply have those policies applied automatically with no further administrative effort. The reverse also holds true for most policies - if a user or computer is moved in such a way that policies no longer apply the policies are removed from them - again, no further administrative effort. When you manage thousands of machines this makes an enormous difference.

There's a lot more to it. Dig a little deeper (and newer) than Windows 2000 gp and you may be suprised =)

well, I for one am not affected:

C:\Windows\system32>vssadmin list shadows | findstr /i time
      Contained 2 shadow copies at creation time: 4/20/2010 1:04:24 AM
      Contained 1 shadow copies at creation time: 4/23/2010 8:41:14 PM
      Contained 1 shadow copies at creation time: 4/23/2010 8:44:13 PM
      Contained 1 shadow copies at creation time: 4/23/2010 8:45:18 PM
      Contained 1 shadow copies at creation time: 4/23/2010 8:47:44 PM
      Contained 2 shadow copies at creation time: 4/26/2010 3:00:41 AM
      Contained 1 shadow copies at creation time: 4/26/2010 3:33:43 AM
      Contained 1 shadow copies at creation time: 8/12/2009 12:26:15 AM
      Contained 1 shadow copies at creation time: 8/12/2009 10:19:21 PM
      Contained 1 shadow copies at creation time: 8/13/2009 2:15:41 PM
      Contained 1 shadow copies at creation time: 9/15/2009 8:34:40 PM
      Contained 1 shadow copies at creation time: 9/23/2009 7:52:40 PM
      Contained 1 shadow copies at creation time: 9/23/2009 7:59:05 PM
      Contained 1 shadow copies at creation time: 9/24/2009 1:14:49 PM
      Contained 1 shadow copies at creation time: 9/25/2009 1:18:36 AM
      Contained 1 shadow copies at creation time: 10/2/2009 2:23:48 AM
      Contained 1 shadow copies at creation time: 10/2/2009 10:28:52 PM
      Contained 1 shadow copies at creation time: 10/3/2009 9:39:41 PM
      Contained 1 shadow copies at creation time: 10/5/2009 2:35:10 AM
      Contained 1 shadow copies at creation time: 10/5/2009 2:40:03 AM
      Contained 1 shadow copies at creation time: 10/5/2009 2:44:26 AM
      Contained 1 shadow copies at creation time: 10/5/2009 3:27:32 AM
      Contained 1 shadow copies at creation time: 10/5/2009 3:34:46 AM
      Contained 1 shadow copies at creation time: 10/5/2009 3:36:32 AM
      Contained 1 shadow copies at creation time: 10/5/2009 3:37:27 AM
      Contained 1 shadow copies at creation time: 10/5/2009 3:39:03 AM
      Contained 1 shadow copies at creation time: 10/5/2009 4:19:47 AM
      Contained 1 shadow copies at creation time: 10/5/2009 4:21:54 AM
      Contained 1 shadow copies at creation time: 10/5/2009 4:23:33 AM
      Contained 1 shadow copies at creation time: 10/5/2009 11:44:25 PM
      Contained 1 shadow copies at creation time: 10/7/2009 11:37:10 AM
      Contained 1 shadow copies at creation time: 10/8/2009 1:14:00 AM
      Contained 1 shadow copies at creation time: 10/9/2009 12:39:08 AM
      Contained 1 shadow copies at creation time: 12/11/2009 3:25:05 AM

I've rebooted my machine a few times since August of '09 =)

emphasis added.

This is the core of the issue. Extremist islamists believe everything that is mildly against their tenets to be an attack. Do you really think the authors of southpark are out to destroy islam? Christianity? Anything else they've lampooned?

Re-read Sura 42, titled Counsel. Line 6 "Had God so pleased, He had made them one people and of one creed." Line 47 "But if they turn aside from thee, yet We have not sent thee to be their guardian' Tis thine but to preach."

and working from home I Leave It To Mother Nature

always works out best for me :)

They probably used automated reviewing software - the computers are conspiring against us! Next thing you know we'll have autogenerated legislation and automated reviews for congressmen to vote on. How long till we have automaton congressmen voting for autogenerated legislation with pork provisions for "free storage enhancement" for their cronies?? OMG! :)

"As a result, each application has its own private address space from which it can use the lower 2 GB--the system reserves the upper 2 GB of every process's address space for its own use"

um, 2GB for the process + "the upper 2GB of every process's address space for its own use" for the system = 4GB _per_process_. It says so even in the part you quoted :)

"... but I'd still like to see some more effort placed into demonstrating that semiconductor RAM remains a scarce resource."

Well, considering in 32 bit Windows-land each process is allocated 4GB of "virtual address space" (the set of virtual memory addresses the process has available to it; 2GB for user and 2GB for kernel by default) you can quickly demonstrate that ram is a scarce resource. Multiply the # of processes running on your system by 4GB and you'll see the exact amount of virtual address space windows is allocating :)

64 bit Windows-land allocates 8TB per 64 bit process, fwiw.

reference:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa366778.aspx