Nice. I have always wanted one of those, but it is slightly above my price range.:) Mine is a lot cheaper and still a lot of fun. And yes, I have actually used it to open packages!
I also enjoy big fscking roller coasters. Last summer I took my 6 year old on Lightning Racer after she said Trailblazer was boring.
We got to the line where there was a someone in front of us and she said "Daddy, I'm so scared.". But when it was our turn, she jumped right in the car. Afterwards, "Daddy, can we go on it again?". We went on Wildcat instead. Oh well...
Bloom County was just the best comic strip I read in the '80s. The characters going on strike and being replaced by "scabs", "Bill the Gates" (a term I still use today), "What do you have to go up against George Bush? A dead cat.", the Mary Kay series, Jackbassalope, and so on.
Everyone here on slashdot is beating him up over "Outland" and "Opus". I will admit that "Outland" wasn't always funny, but when it was, it was classic too. Anyone remember "Who plugged Mortimer Mouse?" or "The meaning of mens life"?
So do I. I no longer have the C-128 (or the C-64 and VIC-20 that proceeded it), but VICE runs Gunship, Aliens, California Games, and Skate or Die just fine on Ubuntu (I think it works in Windows too). I can still remember blasting Kirov all the way back to Murmansk 20 years ago commanding the USS Rickover, but haven't been able to find the Red Storm Rising ROM yet.:(
Once I knew a good DBA that got hired by a typical crappy company as an "exempt" employee. One week she worked 38 hours, the next she worked 42 to make up for the 38. They docked her pay for the 38 hour week but didn't pay her for the extra 2 hours she worked the next week. She quit the next week. During the few times I have worked as an exempt employee, I have always made sure they got exactly 40 hours and no more. If I had to work late or got paged, I always made sure I took time off the next day. I haven't worked as anything other than hourly in many years.
Just use something you can remember that is not online for all your online questions. Look around the room and find something with a name on it and just use it, regardless of the question. Or pick a number you can remember, or both. My mothers maiden name? 42 or maybe 12345. The name of my pet? Lysol. Make sure it has nothing actually to do with you. Probably use some word/number combo to make it a little more secure, but make sure it is easy for you to remember, and use the SAME answer for all questions. Otherwise you will never keep it straight.
One exception the SAME answer is for financial accounts. Pick a different answer for those type of accounts than the other ones. That way, if someone hacks the crappy website you posted a blog for last week, they can't steal your recovery password for your bank.
I figure a good donation amount would be the cost of one average RIAA CD. Wouldn't take too many people donating that to cover his legal expenses... All we need is a paypal link
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I financed a major renovation in 2005 with an adjustable rate 2nd mortgage. Now, I am not exactly a newbie here. I have bought and sold many houses over the years. I have done things like 90/10, rent with option to buy, rental properties, lots of refinances, etc. Remember, this was precisely at the height of the bubble. When signing up for this 2nd mortgage, I carefully reviewed all of the terms of the mortgage, the "truth in lending" documents, maximum rates, balloon payments, etc. I didn't really like it, but planned to refinance it later.
When I got my first bill, I noticed it there was no principal. It was an interest only mortgage, which is NOT WHAT I SIGNED. This was blatantly illegal. Instead of trying to pursue them in court, I refinanced the damn thing the next day with my 1st mortgage holder for a nice 6% fixed single mortgage.
If someone like me (paranoid, tinfoil hat, RFID blocking wallet, etc) can be caught by the shady practices, I really hate to think what they are doing to people without such experience.
SQL Server allows multiple commands to be parsed and executed on a single call, separated by a semicolon. Thus something like Robert''; drop table students; -- works
Oracle (while it has plenty of security vulnerabilities of its own), only allows one command to be executed. So if it is a query, a query is all you can do. True, if the developer is really stupid, you can do things like query DBA_USERS, but you are not going to be able to insert virus code or drop tables.
If I were Microsoft, the next release of SQL Server would have a parameter (turned on by default) which disabled multiple command parsing.
Earlier this year, I was thinking while at work: "They sure have nice bike trails and sidewalks around here. It is too bad the don't have anywhere good to ride a bicycle where I live." Then, one day I thought:
I have a bicycle sitting unused in my garage at home.
I have a pickup truck which I can use to take the bike to work.
There are bike racks in the parking garage at work.
????
Profit!!!
After buying a decent lock, I took the bike to work. The rest is history. I now take all local errands at work on the bike instead of driving. The difference is amazing. The time between fill ups has increased from about 7 days to about 10 days. At todays gas prices, I think that bike paid for itself in about a month
Most cities where us geeks work are pretty bike friendly. Buy a cheap bike (nothing says "don't steal me" like Huffy) and a carrier if you don't have a pickup truck. And take it to work. And use it for errands. You would be surprised how much you can save
Oh, yes.. battery backed write cache. With batteries produced by the lowest bidder. The warranty is for 3 years, and the battery lasts just that long before silently failing. When the power goes, well you really didn't need that data written to disk on your database server, did you?
We now do not allow any server to be put into production with any kind of write cache on it. Ever.
I am working on the long lost sequel to that game. Where someone forgot to apply the DST patch to the Restaurant At the End of the Universes time servers, thus causing the entire space-time continuum to be not curved, but totally bent. Before the Universe explodes at your pleasure (TM), unfortunately when you are still on Earth, you must buy the new game and hitch a ride back to Magrathea to consult with the mice about the patch. Unfortunately, when you try to download the patch from Microsoft/Sirius Cybernetics Corporation with Sub-Ethanet explorer, you get the following message:
This page cannot be displayed.
This game will be release at about the same time as Duke Nukem Forever, or The Year of the Linux Desktop (TM), whichever comes first.
A few years ago, I went to hotmail on my Red Hat box and a message popped up:
You have downloaded a file, "adsclient31.dll". What would you like to do with it? Save to disk or open with...
I don't seem to remember downloading anything. I hadn't opened any emails either. This was coming from the main hotmail site. I wonder what would have happened if I was using IE on Windows?
Bottom line:
Don't use IE for anything. With ActiveX and all the hooks into the OS, it is just too dangerous.
For other browsers, be very paranoid, even if using Linux. The Year of the Linux Desktop (TM) will have arrived when they start targeting us for viruses and botnets.:)
Your story is truly scary shit. A few weeks ago, we were browsing our real estate agents website on Windows when AVAST intercepted a Trojan Horse, probably inserted as part of an SQL injection attack. If we hadn't had up to date anti-virus, our machine would have been PWNED. By our own real estate agent's website.
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I just tried to login to my bank and got the following message:
SSL received a record that exceeded the maximum permissible length.
(Error code: ssl_error_rx_record_too_long)
The page you are trying to view can not be shown because the authenticity of the received data could not be verified.
* Please contact the web site owners to inform them of this problem.
I have never seen this one before. Has my bank been pwned?
For the notepad problem, I would just dump it to a file in temp every few minutes
I tried to download it, but Ubuntu doesn't seem to be on the list of supported operating systems.
I have a nice Microsoft mouse. Seems to run Ubuntu just fine without drivers. It would probably work OK with Windows too...
(posted with pbcopy)
503 sudo apt-get install xclip
504 echo xclip -in -selection clipboard > bin/pbcopy
505 chmod ug+x bin/pbcopy
506 echo xclip -o -selection clipboard > bin/pbpaste
507 chmod ug+x bin/pbpaste
508 history | pbcopy
sudo apt-get install vice
Download your favorite games from c64.com or thegamearchives.com.
Nice. I have always wanted one of those, but it is slightly above my price range. :) Mine is a lot cheaper and still a lot of fun. And yes, I have actually used it to open packages!
I thought in Windows, it was DLL hell.
Why wasn't this modded informative?
We got to the line where there was a someone in front of us and she said "Daddy, I'm so scared.". But when it was our turn, she jumped right in the car. Afterwards, "Daddy, can we go on it again?". We went on Wildcat instead. Oh well...
BTW, Bloom County Rocks!
Bloom County was just the best comic strip I read in the '80s. The characters going on strike and being replaced by "scabs", "Bill the Gates" (a term I still use today), "What do you have to go up against George Bush? A dead cat.", the Mary Kay series, Jackbassalope, and so on.
Everyone here on slashdot is beating him up over "Outland" and "Opus". I will admit that "Outland" wasn't always funny, but when it was, it was classic too. Anyone remember "Who plugged Mortimer Mouse?" or "The meaning of mens life"?
So do I. I no longer have the C-128 (or the C-64 and VIC-20 that proceeded it), but VICE runs Gunship, Aliens, California Games, and Skate or Die just fine on Ubuntu (I think it works in Windows too). I can still remember blasting Kirov all the way back to Murmansk 20 years ago commanding the USS Rickover, but haven't been able to find the Red Storm Rising ROM yet. :(
Once I knew a good DBA that got hired by a typical crappy company as an "exempt" employee. One week she worked 38 hours, the next she worked 42 to make up for the 38. They docked her pay for the 38 hour week but didn't pay her for the extra 2 hours she worked the next week. She quit the next week. During the few times I have worked as an exempt employee, I have always made sure they got exactly 40 hours and no more. If I had to work late or got paged, I always made sure I took time off the next day. I haven't worked as anything other than hourly in many years.
Try win4lin, $29.99. I have used it and it works very well. You do need a valid XP CD/key.
Just use something you can remember that is not online for all your online questions. Look around the room and find something with a name on it and just use it, regardless of the question. Or pick a number you can remember, or both. My mothers maiden name? 42 or maybe 12345. The name of my pet? Lysol. Make sure it has nothing actually to do with you. Probably use some word/number combo to make it a little more secure, but make sure it is easy for you to remember, and use the SAME answer for all questions. Otherwise you will never keep it straight.
One exception the SAME answer is for financial accounts. Pick a different answer for those type of accounts than the other ones. That way, if someone hacks the crappy website you posted a blog for last week, they can't steal your recovery password for your bank.
And for my slashdot account!
I figure a good donation amount would be the cost of one average RIAA CD. Wouldn't take too many people donating that to cover his legal expenses... All we need is a paypal link
I financed a major renovation in 2005 with an adjustable rate 2nd mortgage. Now, I am not exactly a newbie here. I have bought and sold many houses over the years. I have done things like 90/10, rent with option to buy, rental properties, lots of refinances, etc. Remember, this was precisely at the height of the bubble. When signing up for this 2nd mortgage, I carefully reviewed all of the terms of the mortgage, the "truth in lending" documents, maximum rates, balloon payments, etc. I didn't really like it, but planned to refinance it later.
When I got my first bill, I noticed it there was no principal. It was an interest only mortgage, which is NOT WHAT I SIGNED. This was blatantly illegal. Instead of trying to pursue them in court, I refinanced the damn thing the next day with my 1st mortgage holder for a nice 6% fixed single mortgage.
If someone like me (paranoid, tinfoil hat, RFID blocking wallet, etc) can be caught by the shady practices, I really hate to think what they are doing to people without such experience.
In one important way, she is right:
SQL Server allows multiple commands to be parsed and executed on a single call, separated by a semicolon. Thus something like Robert''; drop table students; -- works
Oracle (while it has plenty of security vulnerabilities of its own), only allows one command to be executed. So if it is a query, a query is all you can do. True, if the developer is really stupid, you can do things like query DBA_USERS, but you are not going to be able to insert virus code or drop tables.
If I were Microsoft, the next release of SQL Server would have a parameter (turned on by default) which disabled multiple command parsing.
This post should have been moderated insightful, not interesting.
After buying a decent lock, I took the bike to work. The rest is history. I now take all local errands at work on the bike instead of driving. The difference is amazing. The time between fill ups has increased from about 7 days to about 10 days. At todays gas prices, I think that bike paid for itself in about a month
Most cities where us geeks work are pretty bike friendly. Buy a cheap bike (nothing says "don't steal me" like Huffy) and a carrier if you don't have a pickup truck. And take it to work. And use it for errands. You would be surprised how much you can save
Oh, yes.. battery backed write cache. With batteries produced by the lowest bidder. The warranty is for 3 years, and the battery lasts just that long before silently failing. When the power goes, well you really didn't need that data written to disk on your database server, did you?
We now do not allow any server to be put into production with any kind of write cache on it. Ever.
I am working on the long lost sequel to that game. Where someone forgot to apply the DST patch to the Restaurant At the End of the Universes time servers, thus causing the entire space-time continuum to be not curved, but totally bent. Before the Universe explodes at your pleasure (TM), unfortunately when you are still on Earth, you must buy the new game and hitch a ride back to Magrathea to consult with the mice about the patch. Unfortunately, when you try to download the patch from Microsoft/Sirius Cybernetics Corporation with Sub-Ethanet explorer, you get the following message:
This page cannot be displayed.
This game will be release at about the same time as Duke Nukem Forever, or The Year of the Linux Desktop (TM), whichever comes first.
I need *everything* from Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
A few years ago, I went to hotmail on my Red Hat box and a message popped up:
You have downloaded a file, "adsclient31.dll". What would you like to do with it? Save to disk or open with...
I don't seem to remember downloading anything. I hadn't opened any emails either. This was coming from the main hotmail site. I wonder what would have happened if I was using IE on Windows?
Bottom line:
Your story is truly scary shit. A few weeks ago, we were browsing our real estate agents website on Windows when AVAST intercepted a Trojan Horse, probably inserted as part of an SQL injection attack. If we hadn't had up to date anti-virus, our machine would have been PWNED. By our own real estate agent's website.
Scary shit indeed.