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Post subject: Bill Gates: How a Geek Changed the World  Posted: Fri Jun 20, 2008 10:20 am |
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 The Money Programme special Bill Gates: How a geek changed the World, Friday, 20 June, on BBC Two at 1900. Quote: As Bill Gates prepares to end his full-time work at Microsoft, he tells the BBC in an interview that it wasn't just what Microsoft did, but what his rivals didn't do that let Microsoft get ahead.
"Most of our competitors were very poorly run," he tells Fiona Bruce, for The Money Programme.
"They did not understand how to bring in people with business experience and people with engineering experience and put them together. They did not understand how to go around the world."
Sir Alan Sugar, one of Britain's computer pioneers with his Amstrad range, testifies to Microsoft's global mobility even as a comparatively small company in the 1980s.
Amstrad, in Brentwood, Essex, was visited by a Microsoft salesman - or "mid-Atlantic smoothie" as Sir Alan describes him - who came to sell Microsoft's MS-DOS operating system. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7464074.stm  _________________ 
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Post subject: Re: Bill Gates: How a Geek Changed the World Posted: Fri Jun 20, 2008 10:33 am |
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Quote: "We tried to get everyone who did productivity software to come along and support Windows," he says.
"But they were quite slow, so our own Windows applications, Word, Excel, were doing incredibly well."  I'm sure they gave equal time to all the developers.....
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Post subject: Re: Bill Gates: How a Geek Changed the World Posted: Sat Jun 21, 2008 11:16 am |
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Post subject: Re: Bill Gates: How a Geek Changed the World Posted: Fri Jun 27, 2008 9:40 am |
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aha...ahahaha....ahahahahahAHAHAHAHA
Lotus slagging off microsoft for stability....
AHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAA
*twitches*
finished watching...yeah, that lotus guy really is a twat
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Post subject: Re: Bill Gates: How a Geek Changed the World Posted: Fri Jun 27, 2008 10:15 am |
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Caspius=GCHQ= wrote: Now on iPlayer... http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/page/item/b00c6sdc.shtml?src=ip_potpw Bill Gate's office"Does it ever crash, like mine at work?" "Its a very reliable system... He doesn't really answer it does he..  Does anyone still get crashes with XP or Vista?? I've had "freezes" which are to do with the software being run - but no crashes for years... 
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Post subject: Re: Bill Gates: How a Geek Changed the World Posted: Sun Jun 29, 2008 1:24 am |
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Quote: Does anyone still get crashes with XP or Vista?? I've had "freezes" which are to do with the software being run - but no crashes for years... i get them but i guess there more to do with drivers from other people tbh still it would be nice to ssh in and kill the pid rather than reboot waitsfor gp to tell me how to do it  _________________ 
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Post subject: Re: Bill Gates: How a Geek Changed the World Posted: Sun Jun 29, 2008 7:23 am |
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Post subject: Re: Bill Gates: How a Geek Changed the World Posted: Sun Jun 29, 2008 11:44 am |
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thats a step in the right direction
is htere anything like
ps auxf
to bring up proccess treads etc so you can see the offending program ?
i know you can with proccess exporer for windows but i just wondered if there was a way i could do it if i installed ssh on the machine ?
cheers
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Post subject: Re: Bill Gates: How a Geek Changed the World Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2008 6:36 pm |
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tasklist /? will show all options tasklist /v and tasklist /svc are most useful - /svc will show you what each svchost process is actually doing, rather than just showing the PIDs /fi will allow you to filter by process owner / mem useage etc you can use /u /s /p options with tasklist or taskkill to run on remote systems (needs RDP ports open on firewall though) The shutdown command is pretty useful on remote systems too 
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Post subject: Re: Bill Gates: How a Geek Changed the World Posted: Thu Jul 10, 2008 11:01 am |
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GeneralPublic=GCHQ= wrote: The shutdown command is pretty useful on remote systems too just love shutdown -r -t 0 or shutdown -a to abort  still think halt is MUCH better  For windows SSH client and server, this is the best bet. All in one package, and did I mention free? (As it should be ) (you can specify which u need, both client and server or either one) For just a SSH client putty is very good. For Mac, SSH server is as simple as ticking the Remote login firewall option. For the client, already built-in. Open a terminal window in Utilities (Apple+Shift+U) and the command is ssh (funnily enough ) You can type in man ssh to get the command-line goodness. There are also GUI variants but meh For Linux (specificially Debian/Ubuntu), SSH server is a command away. Code: sudo apt-get install openssh-server The client: putty: Code: sudo apt-get install putty All these options require Administrator access to install. If you need non-admin options, let me know.  You may need to forward ports on your router to direct the SSH traffic to it. Hope this helps.
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