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Leisure Suit Larry...

As I recall it, Leisure Suit Larry was just Softporn Adventure with sound and graphics added.

Sound and graphics were the beginning of the end for proper interactive adventuring. Now, where's my lamp? I've got some colossal caves to explore...

Please ignore the "I thought the button was in an iframe, so the cookies wouldn't be considered third-party." -- that was muddled.

But, it seems that Webkit-based browsers allow third-party cookies to be read but not written when third-party cookies are "disabled." Facebook can presumably read the cookie (if the browser allows reading) to see who you are, and read the referrer URL for the iframe to see what webpage you were viewing, so it seems they can track you if disabling third-party cookies doesn't prohibit reading them.

"I do so enjoy pointing out the total uber fail of your magical woobie so. I also personally consider it a public service to point people to solutions that actually work" - by hairyfeet (841228) bassbeast1968NO@SPAMgmail.com> on Monday January 03, @03:04PM (#34746796)

Ready fool? Ok, let's see how "perfect" your "solutions" REALLY are, below (not yours, you didn't create them - you merely USE THEM, like a trained chimpanzee that you are, techie boy):

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MULTIPLE EVIDENCES OF ANTIVIRUS &/or ANTISPYWARE PROGRAM FAILURES + SHORTCOMINGS:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/12/04/win_2000_virus_tests/

http://www.securityfocus.com/infocus/1839

http://it.slashdot.org/it/08/11/07/1545238.shtml

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(Want more? Here comes, on their "heuristics" too)

ANTIVIRUS HEURISTICS EFFECTIVENESS EVIDENCES (i.e. - NOT 100% EFFECTIVE AND GETS FALSE POSITIVES):

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The sorry state of Avira anti-virus heuristics:

http://grack.com/blog/2010/03/17/the-sorry-state-of-avira-anti-virus-heuristics/

PERTINENT QUOTE/EXCERPT:

"Considering that the risk of false positives is so high (and users might be trained to ignore other, potentially valid virus warnings), I'd say that users are worse off with this virus definition than they are without."

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(As "1 example thereof", because the very word "HEURISTICS" equates basically to hairyfeet's very bitch here - guesstimation technology really, in that it uses "does it smell/taste/look like a duck" type tech, & it makes mistakes... period, see above!)

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"You have 190,000 to 340,000 infected websites at this very moment and that list will change by the thousands per minute as sites are cleaned, new sites are infected, new vulnerabilities found, etc. Now for your HOPES file to actually be a REAL protection and not just a woobie? It will have to dynamically scale and keep up with that ever changing list of infections. Now even if you had twenty fingers and subscribed to every security list on the planet your HOPES file will ALWAYS BE OUT OF DATE and behind the curve. Always. Don't like those numbers? Use the ones from Securina, Grisoft, Symantec, any reputable security site. YOU CHOOSE. I have shown mathematically you are full of shit, now lets see you math that proves me wrong PETEY." - by hairyfeet (841228) bassbeast1968NO@SPAMgmail.com> on Monday January 03, @03:04PM (#34746796)

I just did above, vs. your "suggested solutions" lol... easily!

You're "shot down in flames", yet again, hairyfeet... TOO easily!

There is NO WAY THEY CAN KEEP UP WITH NEW MALWARES BEING MADE either... and you say they "work"? See above!

(They're "better than nothing", & I use them myself, for added LAYERED SECURITY - but, I don't put my entire FAITH ON THEM, as you appear to do!)

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"As in you HOPES that one of the 300,000+ constantly changing array of websites that are infected doesn't happen to be the one you visit today?" - by hairyfeet (841228) bassbeast1968NO@SPAMgmail.com> on Monday January 03, @03:04PM (#34746796)

I use these reputable, reliable, & regularly updated (by the HOUR no less) sources to populate my HOSTS file:

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http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm
http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/
http://hostsfile.org/hosts.html
http://hostsfile.mine.nu/downloads/

"Petey's magical woobie is a little thing known as heuristics, along with a nice word known as sandboxing, neither of which his magical .txt file can do" - by hairyfeet (841228) on Sunday January 02, @09:44AM (#34737154)

ANTIVIRUS HEURISTICS EFFECTIVENESS EVIDENCES (i.e. - NOT 100% EFFECTIVE AND GETS FALSE POSITIVES):

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The sorry state of Avira anti-virus heuristics:

http://grack.com/blog/2010/03/17/the-sorry-state-of-avira-anti-virus-heuristics/

PERTINENT QUOTE/EXCERPT:

"Considering that the risk of false positives is so high (and users might be trained to ignore other, potentially valid virus warnings), I'd say that users are worse off with this virus definition than they are without."

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(As "1 example thereof", because the very word "HEURISTICS" equates basically to hairyfeet's very bitch here - guesstimation technology really, in that it uses "does it smell/taste/look like a duck" type tech, & it makes mistakes... period, see above!)

You're "shot down in flames", yet again, hairyfeet... TOO easily!

Oh, lastly: One thing my HOSTS file does, is protect me, FOR SURE, vs. 920,259 KNOWN BAD WEBSITES (because if I cannot reach them? I cannot get infected by them - period!) , so who is better layered security protected here? Myself, using such layered security measures, OR YOU, w/out them?

APK

P.S.=> Heuristics can't save you here either, as it's NOT 100% perfect, and it also causes hassles in & of itself, @ times, also... apk

Works fine on my Mac with the latest build of Chromium and the enable extension Inst bookmark.

Actually Palm has a history of providing unencrypted ROM images for their devices and explaining how to create your own ROM dumps from a device especially to registered developers. There are also numerous tools designed to allow people to customize these ROM images and install them on their devices some of which are supported by the device manufactures.

I doubt releasing the root image for the Pre was unintentional and I highly doubt Palm will do anything to discourage people customizing the root image and adding their own applications.

That was a whole different era. Since then Palm has been restructured a half dozen times, and fallen quite hard from their former glory as the #1 handheld platform. The new devices have all kinds of features the old ones didn't - features that some people won't want you to use with complete liberty. I don't think you can take it for granted that they'll continue playing by the rules they followed in the days of POSE and copilot.

Actually Palm has a history of providing unencrypted ROM images for their devices and explaining how to create your own ROM dumps from a device especially to registered developers. There are also numerous tools designed to allow people to customize these ROM images and install them on their devices some of which are supported by the device manufactures.

I doubt releasing the root image for the Pre was unintentional and I highly doubt Palm will do anything to discourage people customizing the root image and adding their own applications.

To make a custom rom, you'll need Grack's Rom Tool. At one point you could simply download a custom rom, but PalmOne asked Shadowmite to take them down and he did. You'll have to use the tool to extract your rom, modify it, and reload it on the phone. Use this list (danger: pdf) to determine what you can and want to delete. I got rid of everything I don't use, from the tutorial to VersaMail. I added a small handful of programs I can't live without, like pFuel, CMDBar, CMDWay, DA Launcher, and SharkNav. Some apps won't work from the ROM, and cause a soft-reset loop; check against this list and above all, don't panic. I'm told it's next to impossible to brick a Treo 650 with this tool, although the old method was very dangerous, and I haven't had it happen with either. If you install an app that doesn't like running from ROM, you can warm-reset with up+reset pin and flash an updated rom. If you try apps that aren't on the list, this may take some considerable trial and error. Make careful lists of everything you change in case you need them.

You can add as much as you delete and a little more, but the smaller you keep the ROM, the more dbCache space you have. The dbCache is the memory where NVFS-based PalmOS copies the programs and runs them from; a lot of instability comes from dbCache issues. You should also check out dbCacheTool (page isn't english, but the app is) and Resco Locker; the former will automatically clear the dbCache when it runs low, and the latter will lock apps into the cache. Some instability is caused by background programs that do not properly lock themselves.

As far as app selection goes, whether ROM or RAM, that's trial and error. If you hit ##377# in the phone app on a Sprint phone it will show you what crashed the phone. Using RLock on the app may stabilize it, or just delete it. You can read this Shadowmite.com forum thread for more ## codes, but 377 is the only one I ever use. Also, this is for the 650 only! The 600 is not supported and probably never will be, at this point; the 700p is coming but it's not ready yet.

Generally, I would think that this would just make it that much easier. I imagine that if there are those that can develop Linux for a Treo 650, which was really never meant to run it in the first place, having actual hardware designed for some form of Linux would lend itself to more easily getting a distribution running on those phones. Get another Linux version on there and bypass the crap that the network operator installed for your "convenience".

...device running linux. Why oh why does linux have to run on everything including the kitchen sink? i was actually much more interested in what he had to say about .NET wake me when you have minix running on the blackberry or the 700W.

Ok, related to the last sentence of my last post (Microsoft intends people more to make use of rich API's) I found this blog complaining about WinFS - and describing exactly the biggest problem I see with the whole thing.

If you read the blog entry linked to, you find this paragraph:

No - the "big deal" about WinFS IMHO isn't "search". Like Web Services - it's about the fact that it's an attempt to get a higher level of interoperability between programs through agreement on schemas. Hopefully, toward the goal of bootstrapping network effects, and unintended/innovative consequences, on the client. WinFS defines an extensible object model and persistence mechanism, as well a rich and extensible "relationship" mechanism that can be used to intertwingle objects with that are somehow related to one another. Some kinds of stock relationships are obvious: common Author, common Artist, common Location, common Priority, etc. Some may be more subtle or domain-specific: common Project, common Client, common Contributors, or even manual and thus not-easily-described ties.

Like the first blog says, this hope of "interoperability between applications" is a pipe-dream that may work OK with office but will then proceed to fall flat on its face beyond that realm.

It's pretty telling that Tiger will have Spotlight working next year, while you won't even see a public WinFS is 2006. The domain is more complex, but does it need to be when Spotlight is achieving the same practical effect for 99.9% of use?

Another possibility is to mess around with the *instripe theme's spacing in userChrome.css file.

here's some instructions regarding the thing. Personally, I just went for zero pixel padding =)

Check this out if you're so concerned. It's easy. It'll fix the icon spacing.

If you want a real Open Source emulator that's complete enough to run Windows XP (and do so with usable speed), QEmu is your only option. Currently it simulates a Pentium, Vesa fgramebuffer video card, and ISA NE2000 NIC.

Check out this dude's blog for screenshots of QEmu running Win2K.

Combine it with a copy of x86 glibc and a recent Crossover, you can use it to run Office XP for Windows on Linux on a Mac. Scary :^).

Go get it from the Qemu Site.

I would be more interested in a site that generated actual domains names that don't appear in any dictionary, such as fojar.com and grack.com - they aren't words, and they aren't combinations of words. :)