Longhorn Troubles: Does Anybody Care?

[joe smith]

Could you elaborate a bit on the "fast user switch" - how is it

practically done in Win XP pro?

Press Windows key + L, behold!

 

[The little lost angel]

I believe it's actually HP who buys the Canon engines. IMO a proper laser
printer hides its paper in a drawer or tray and I'm, umm, quite inflexible
on this point.

*grinz* I'm the opposite I guess, I like my printers as small as I can
get them without sacrificing the features I want. Those ugly trays
sticking out the front are an terrible eyesores!

One of the main reason I didn't get the HP1200 (or whatever replaced
their HP1100 series) was because my friend got one and it had an ugly
paper tray out the front ppP

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[Walt]

I don't think one can look at any new OS from Microsoft
in a vacuum that doesn't affect processors at all.

Statements like "In fact, it's going to be the fattest
release of Windows ever." and "It's not expected to be
able to run on the majority of older desktop machines"
have got to have an effect on Intel chips.

What will be the processors that will be included in the term
"older desktop machines" when we get to 2006? Prescott?
Extreme Edition?

 

[Tony Hill]

Yeah I know what a hosts file is. So the hosts file would supply the
address for only the domain logon, i.e. the PDC... and Internet DNS would
go through the Primary or Secondary DNS Server defined in the IP
Properties? Are you sure about this?

If your hosts file exists, it will always be checked first before any
DNS queries are sent out. Any machine that is sitting in the hosts
file will be resolved there, anything that isn't in the hosts file
results in a DNS query.

The only potential problem here is that you're talking about a PDC
rather than a plain old IP server. Microsoft has all sorts of crap
for it's own networking stuff and I can never keep track of what
protocol is used for what connection. I'm pretty certain that they
now do all this stuff with straight TCP/IP and no longer worry about
any of that old NetBIOS or WINS resolution, but you might need to look
into that in case there's some old backwards compatibility cruft left
over from days gone by.

The problem with M$ is that they have half-assed layered their own legacy
stuff on top of the IETF IP rules. For a while, a few years ago, they kept
trying to get IETF to accept their way of doing things and kept getting
laughed out of the meetings.

Hehe, yup, getting back to what I just wrote above about all the old
legacy cruft that you might run into! :>

 

[Tony Hill]

Press Windows key + L, behold!

Sweet! Thanks, that was what I was looking for... Now why couldn't
MS see fit to document this properly?!

 

[George Macdonald]

*grinz* I'm the opposite I guess, I like my printers as small as I can
get them without sacrificing the features I want. Those ugly trays
sticking out the front are an terrible eyesores!

One of the main reason I didn't get the HP1200 (or whatever replaced
their HP1100 series) was because my friend got one and it had an ugly
paper tray out the front ppP

No no, the paper tray should be completely covered but drawers are
better.";-) My 5year-old Lexmark Optra E+/PS has a tray which sticks out
the front but I got the optional cover for it - not as nice as a tray or
drawer which slides into the printer chassis but it'll have to do. What
amazes me is how Minolta has taken that same basic engine and taken it up
to the speeds that it does now.

Rgds, George Macdonald

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