QEMM could remap memory far beyond what memmaker could do. It recognized areas of memory used only during boot for instance. I started with memmaker and went to QEMM for Falcon 3.0 : )
I wonder, what operating system(s) were compromised by this infection?
Could it be -- say it isn't -- yet another outbreak of infestations on Windows machines?
If people haven't learned by this point not to trust Windows machines with anything critical, they deserve what they get. It's no longer a matter of ignorance as these things have been widely documented for decades.
Actually I wonder how well a helix would work for an antenna at certain frequencies... I know very little about antennae except some strange-looking designs sometimes work very well... the Hoverman for instance.
I'll have to go buy an old-school Slinky or two and play with it.
My ID was not stolen, my credit card was stolen. Had I signed it "ID REQUIRED" the store would have had to check for ID (since that phrase isn't acceptable as a signature by itself).
It's stupid to use a sig on a credit card simply because copying a signature isn't proof of identity, which is the whole point of "signing" the card to begin with.
I was advised by that card's fraud department to always use "ID REQUIRED" or other such wording in the future in lieu of a signature on all my cards. After 14 years of this, I can verify it works.
See my comment above. Assuming a physical signature is "proof" is naive at its best and could be quite dangerous.
When I had a credit card stolen, it was signed. Someone of a different race used the card, which would have been quite obvious if ID were required. It took several hours of my time to clear up the matter and it was very inconvenient.
I had a credit card stolen once and the credit card company told me to do this exact same thing. I've put "PHOTO ID REQ'D" on every card I own.
In 14+ years, visits to several countries, and many many purchases I've had only one retailer try to refuse the purchase (a particular Best Buy store). I refused to sign it and threatened to leave my items at the counter. I asked for a manager and after he gave me a hard time I told him I wouldn't shop there again. I never went back to that store.
It's actually really stupid to use a signature, especially when clueless stores (think Wal-Mart) print your sig on the receipt! Everyone should have photo ID on their cards, and perhaps even more rigorous methods of ID should be used. When a single card can be $25K it gets to be a bit much to assume a simple signature is enough.
If a cardmaker actually tried to enforce this, I would simply take my business elsewhere. The card is there for my convenience and the bank works on my behalf, not the other way around.
Not in my area. I'm less than 2 miles outside the Chattanooga, TN city limits and the digital reception is much much much worse than the analog reception. Yes, when it comes in, it's nice and clear with wonderful sound. Then the 150' trees in my backyard sway in the wind and the signal is interrupted. In a big storm (I live on a mountain ridge) no TV is available.
For some areas analog is much better. I can't even get DirecTV HD here because of the trees -- only standard res. And no, I'm not cutting down my trees.
"Cutting back" to save money, coupled with the transition to digital, cost me my TV. At least there's Hulu...
And with my experiences, it's been a person from overseas with a name such as "John" who is difficult to understand. Almost as bad as calling Symantec.
It's way past time for patent reform, these patent trolls are way out of hand.
Can we require businesses that patent the ideas to have real, actual products to retain the patent?
They buy an idea, then sit on it. No one benefits from it (except lining their pockets with no efforts on their part). Bad for consumers, bad for other businesses. Boo!
Unfortunately people will just learn to push the "unsafe" button anytime they wanted something.
Can't get your porn? (pushes unsafe button)
Can't see that video? (pushes unsafe button)
OOH! RINGTONES! (pushes unsafe button)
The problem is not only with making a solution widely distributed and easy to use, but also educating people so they understand why they need to open that gaping hole only when they really really really trust the machine on the other side.
The people I know seem unfazed and unconcerned when you tell them their ass is flapping in the breeze.
35. And when I played WOW (left just before the expansion pack, influx of rude kids on the server, too easy to level, everyone in same gear, etc etc) there were a lot of people my age playing too.
I've had this issue with certain HP Laserjet printers (1320 & 2300 for instance). Won't work from a powered hub, will work directly through the computer's USB port.
Sigh. You may be trolling or just have never worked in a corporate environment with a disparate group of end users.
These people have vision impairment. They're already on a 19" screen (and one on a 21"). Yes, the interface can be tweaked somewhat to give them more real estate.
We didn't have this problem with Office 97, 2000, or 2003. We DO have this problem with 2007.
It's because the ribbon interface, by default, eats up too much screen real estate for these people.
We have some users with vision problems that need to use 800x600 resolution. Have you any idea how much screen real estate the ribbon takes up by default? Over 1/3. By the time you add the status bar and the taskbar / system tray area there's little room left for them to work.
And yes, this can be *partly* fixed by tweaks. But by default it's terrible for these people.
Teaching them how to print a document all over again... because the icon's gone... seems like a step backwards. I don't relish the thought of having to upgrade our users to 2007. So far it's been painful enough with the 6 or so we've done.
OO 2.4 / 3 is a much better solution IMHO. If you must use Office, use 2003.
I downloaded Symphony a week or so ago, and it wouldn't install. XP SP 3 on this box. I only wanted to try it to see if it offered Word Pro / AmiPro support... I still have some old AmiPro 3.1 files hanging around. I've long since misplaced my AmiPro disks and even if I found them I'd have to find a computer with a floppy drive anyway : )
When it didn't install, I deleted the archive and called it a day. I already have (and use) OO 3 so not a huge loss but disappointing.
Oh, it also screwed up my Times New Roman fonts when it failed, I had to restore them. I noticed when composing an email the fonts were some cartoonish typeface. Acronis and LaCie to the rescue!
Windows 2000 Server is still dependable (at least as far as Windows goes). Sometimes an app you want to use either misbehaves with Windows 2003 or is flat-out incompatible (such as HP EVA 4400 drivers not working with 2003 R2). There are a lot of good reasons for staying with something that's a known evil.
Most businesses have to justify the cost of upgrades too.
I'm not having any troubles, and I populate several million records each day spread across approx 100 tables without error. I've done this for several years.
I happen to be in a situation where the host system isn't ODBC-compliant so we hosted MySQL on the same box and use custom code to get data out of it. Then I import from MySQL into MS SQL Server. It's very quick for what I do and I haven't had to spend time on maintenance and tuning really like I do MS SQL Server. No table partitioning yet, no manual placement of indexes on separate filegroups etc. Oh, and no data loss. And while it's importing / exporting the MySQL load on the server is minimal -- I'm accustomed to seeing it 90%+ idle at that time of the morning.
Granted, I use a small portion of its features, but even things like the ability to load data and have it either replace or append as needed saves another pass per table. With my tiny maintenance window this really helps.
YMMV though. Maybe because I stay a version behind bleeding edge (5.0/5.1) it helps?
If Dell can't ship a box (very simple process) why do you think they could build a quality computer (very complicated process)? Seriously, this is simple stuff people and other companies can get it straight.
Dell has some screwed up processes and their people don't have proper training, is that the point you're trying to get across? Point taken.
Get a computer from someone else. Anyone really. How long are you willing to wait for them to get it right? Do you want to go through this crap when you have a problem and need warranty repair? Hell no! So avoid it and buy elsewhere.
The worst for me is when I launch an app, and while it's launching I click back on another app and am typing... and when the new app finishes loading, it steals focus... grrr
Or I'm busy typing along somewhere and a new dialog steals focus, sometimes for another program. It's frustrating enough to have the new dialog pop into visibility but then to also steal focus? Absolutely infuriating!
Do it like OS X does when possible... bounce the icon in the tray and don't steal my focus.
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Shhhh. Let them do this and fail.
Sidekick by Borland I believe.
QEMM could remap memory far beyond what memmaker could do. It recognized areas of memory used only during boot for instance. I started with memmaker and went to QEMM for Falcon 3.0 : )
I wonder, what operating system(s) were compromised by this infection?
Could it be -- say it isn't -- yet another outbreak of infestations on Windows machines?
If people haven't learned by this point not to trust Windows machines with anything critical, they deserve what they get. It's no longer a matter of ignorance as these things have been widely documented for decades.
The fact that this unwanted addon is NOT visible in Add/Remove Programs, and this was done to a 3rd party program smells like an attempt at sabotage.
I'm not aware of any other Windows updates targeting 3rd party software.
And this would be a change how?
Actually I wonder how well a helix would work for an antenna at certain frequencies... I know very little about antennae except some strange-looking designs sometimes work very well... the Hoverman for instance.
I'll have to go buy an old-school Slinky or two and play with it.
My ID was not stolen, my credit card was stolen. Had I signed it "ID REQUIRED" the store would have had to check for ID (since that phrase isn't acceptable as a signature by itself).
It's stupid to use a sig on a credit card simply because copying a signature isn't proof of identity, which is the whole point of "signing" the card to begin with.
I was advised by that card's fraud department to always use "ID REQUIRED" or other such wording in the future in lieu of a signature on all my cards. After 14 years of this, I can verify it works.
See my comment above. Assuming a physical signature is "proof" is naive at its best and could be quite dangerous.
When I had a credit card stolen, it was signed. Someone of a different race used the card, which would have been quite obvious if ID were required. It took several hours of my time to clear up the matter and it was very inconvenient.
I had a credit card stolen once and the credit card company told me to do this exact same thing. I've put "PHOTO ID REQ'D" on every card I own.
In 14+ years, visits to several countries, and many many purchases I've had only one retailer try to refuse the purchase (a particular Best Buy store). I refused to sign it and threatened to leave my items at the counter. I asked for a manager and after he gave me a hard time I told him I wouldn't shop there again. I never went back to that store.
It's actually really stupid to use a signature, especially when clueless stores (think Wal-Mart) print your sig on the receipt! Everyone should have photo ID on their cards, and perhaps even more rigorous methods of ID should be used. When a single card can be $25K it gets to be a bit much to assume a simple signature is enough.
If a cardmaker actually tried to enforce this, I would simply take my business elsewhere. The card is there for my convenience and the bank works on my behalf, not the other way around.
Not in my area. I'm less than 2 miles outside the Chattanooga, TN city limits and the digital reception is much much much worse than the analog reception. Yes, when it comes in, it's nice and clear with wonderful sound. Then the 150' trees in my backyard sway in the wind and the signal is interrupted. In a big storm (I live on a mountain ridge) no TV is available.
For some areas analog is much better. I can't even get DirecTV HD here because of the trees -- only standard res. And no, I'm not cutting down my trees.
"Cutting back" to save money, coupled with the transition to digital, cost me my TV. At least there's Hulu...
And with my experiences, it's been a person from overseas with a name such as "John" who is difficult to understand. Almost as bad as calling Symantec.
It's way past time for patent reform, these patent trolls are way out of hand.
Can we require businesses that patent the ideas to have real, actual products to retain the patent?
They buy an idea, then sit on it. No one benefits from it (except lining their pockets with no efforts on their part). Bad for consumers, bad for other businesses. Boo!
Unfortunately people will just learn to push the "unsafe" button anytime they wanted something.
Can't get your porn? (pushes unsafe button)
Can't see that video? (pushes unsafe button)
OOH! RINGTONES! (pushes unsafe button)
The problem is not only with making a solution widely distributed and easy to use, but also educating people so they understand why they need to open that gaping hole only when they really really really trust the machine on the other side.
The people I know seem unfazed and unconcerned when you tell them their ass is flapping in the breeze.
35. And when I played WOW (left just before the expansion pack, influx of rude kids on the server, too easy to level, everyone in same gear, etc etc) there were a lot of people my age playing too.
I could teach thou, but I wouldst need to levy a fine.
I've had this issue with certain HP Laserjet printers (1320 & 2300 for instance). Won't work from a powered hub, will work directly through the computer's USB port.
Sigh. You may be trolling or just have never worked in a corporate environment with a disparate group of end users.
These people have vision impairment. They're already on a 19" screen (and one on a 21"). Yes, the interface can be tweaked somewhat to give them more real estate.
We didn't have this problem with Office 97, 2000, or 2003. We DO have this problem with 2007.
It's because the ribbon interface, by default, eats up too much screen real estate for these people.
We have some users with vision problems that need to use 800x600 resolution. Have you any idea how much screen real estate the ribbon takes up by default? Over 1/3. By the time you add the status bar and the taskbar / system tray area there's little room left for them to work.
And yes, this can be *partly* fixed by tweaks. But by default it's terrible for these people.
Teaching them how to print a document all over again... because the icon's gone... seems like a step backwards. I don't relish the thought of having to upgrade our users to 2007. So far it's been painful enough with the 6 or so we've done.
OO 2.4 / 3 is a much better solution IMHO. If you must use Office, use 2003.
I downloaded Symphony a week or so ago, and it wouldn't install. XP SP 3 on this box. I only wanted to try it to see if it offered Word Pro / AmiPro support... I still have some old AmiPro 3.1 files hanging around. I've long since misplaced my AmiPro disks and even if I found them I'd have to find a computer with a floppy drive anyway : )
When it didn't install, I deleted the archive and called it a day. I already have (and use) OO 3 so not a huge loss but disappointing.
Oh, it also screwed up my Times New Roman fonts when it failed, I had to restore them. I noticed when composing an email the fonts were some cartoonish typeface. Acronis and LaCie to the rescue!
I second that. The HP inkjet and LaserJet drivers are part of RHEL too. They "just work" without extra effort.
Windows 2000 Server is still dependable (at least as far as Windows goes). Sometimes an app you want to use either misbehaves with Windows 2003 or is flat-out incompatible (such as HP EVA 4400 drivers not working with 2003 R2). There are a lot of good reasons for staying with something that's a known evil.
Most businesses have to justify the cost of upgrades too.
I'm not having any troubles, and I populate several million records each day spread across approx 100 tables without error. I've done this for several years.
I happen to be in a situation where the host system isn't ODBC-compliant so we hosted MySQL on the same box and use custom code to get data out of it. Then I import from MySQL into MS SQL Server. It's very quick for what I do and I haven't had to spend time on maintenance and tuning really like I do MS SQL Server. No table partitioning yet, no manual placement of indexes on separate filegroups etc. Oh, and no data loss. And while it's importing / exporting the MySQL load on the server is minimal -- I'm accustomed to seeing it 90%+ idle at that time of the morning.
Granted, I use a small portion of its features, but even things like the ability to load data and have it either replace or append as needed saves another pass per table. With my tiny maintenance window this really helps.
YMMV though. Maybe because I stay a version behind bleeding edge (5.0/5.1) it helps?
If Dell can't ship a box (very simple process) why do you think they could build a quality computer (very complicated process)? Seriously, this is simple stuff people and other companies can get it straight.
Dell has some screwed up processes and their people don't have proper training, is that the point you're trying to get across? Point taken.
Get a computer from someone else. Anyone really. How long are you willing to wait for them to get it right? Do you want to go through this crap when you have a problem and need warranty repair? Hell no! So avoid it and buy elsewhere.
The worst for me is when I launch an app, and while it's launching I click back on another app and am typing... and when the new app finishes loading, it steals focus... grrr
Or I'm busy typing along somewhere and a new dialog steals focus, sometimes for another program. It's frustrating enough to have the new dialog pop into visibility but then to also steal focus? Absolutely infuriating!
Do it like OS X does when possible... bounce the icon in the tray and don't steal my focus.