If they keep this up, I can see their next OS: Microsoft Windows BoW (Block of Wood) Ultimate Edition! I'm already working on t3rm1t3Z, a virus designed to attack BoW, based on an early beta. It's going to make a killing. Lolz !
In all the years of virus hunting and gathering, I only got a boot sector virus once. Now, I just fdisk/MBR in the startup sequence. I may have had anynumber of boot sector viruses. I dont know. They all disappear before I have a chance to detect them. As an aside here's the problem with that scheme :
Machine boots
MBR loads Windows
Windows overwrites MBR
Windows gets infected somehow
Presumably Virus checks for prior infection
Virus overwrites MBR
stuff happens (?)
machine shuts down
*time goes by* Then :
Machine boots
MBR loads Windows *and* virus
Windows overwrites MBR
Presumably Virus checks for prior infection
Virus overwrites MBR (sounds familiar?)
stuff happens (?)
machine shuts down
Windows cannot protect the MBR if windows is running or not AND THEY SHOUDLNT. Its really up to the hardware vendors.
Put it into BIOS or have a jumper on the drive. ( Simple effortless fix, vs MAJOR CLUSTER F*** ) ( I used to turn it off, and then fdisk/MBR then turn it back on in the bios. ) I always thought it was a nice feature. Where the hell did it go? If infection of the MBR by a virus is a concern, hardware protection (as in having the controller forbid access) is indeed the only real solution in the current Windows context.
In all the years of virus hunting and gathering, I only got a boot sector virus once. Now, I just fdisk/MBR in the startup sequence. Good idea, Ill do that as well !
while true ; grub-install/dev/sda ; sleep 60 ; done
Oh dear... I seem to be on a roll... I K'd the wrong C... *bangs head on C... erm Keyboard* Problem Exists Between Chair and Keyboard Problem Exists Between Keyboard and Chair
Hen and egg. How does the virus get there in the first place. SOMEONE must first of all get it to execution. Malware doesn't suddenly jump in and exists. Really ? That's not what my users have been telling me...
The slashot discussion system is a joke run by arrogant, biased, opinion nazis Tutorial:
1) That's "Slashdot". -1 for capitalization, -5 for spelling. 2) Nazi is capitalized. Also shouldn't it be Nazi's ? You know, just so we'd have something to bitch about on slow days ?
It's funny because I would personally choose HD DVD if I were to judge by names. It gives the impression of being just another rock solid format like CD-R or DVD-RW. I thought they didn't do too well with those considering the CD-R, CD+R and CD±R and given that nobody ever knew what those stood for. People follow marketoïds even though you, I, and presumably most of us here aren't too fond of the idea.
It's a shame they haven't been like... advertising for it. Compared to Blu-Ray, hardly anyone has even heard of it. I know it sounds silly but BluRay has a catchy name and people remember it. HDDVD just looks like a bad day at Scrabble. The naming decisions may be what sealed the fate of both standards.
Is Charmin a standard size? Some European toilet paper is A6-size (fold an A4 [297x210mm] piece of paper in half, and fold that in half, and you have A6). So I hear anyway, I haven't checked. Any European editing house that gets lots of manuscripts will confirm that it is indeed the case.
Re:The best tools stay out of the way...
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Goodbye Cruel Word
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Does Office 2007 move the window content when you move the "elevator" widget in the side bar ?
Or is it that still broken ? (I don't use Windows apps much, so maybe it was finally fixed in Office 2003 or something, I gave up on their stuff long before that since I've always had a choice)
Re:The best tools stay out of the way...
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Amen, brother. That's why I like to use sed and shell echos, pipes, and redirects to do my word processing. See ? I'm not the only one who doesn't like ed !
We need Open Hardware! Otherwise... My Aunt who lives overseas got a Sharp DVD Recorder. Recorded some shows to send to my young Son to watch in our second language. Trouble is: The new Sharp DVD Recorders save everything in copy-protected format that aren't playable on any other systems. Why can't we program our own consumer hardware? Why do I need some dweeb at Sharp to write code that disadvantages me as a consumer? Because they've already got your money !
The GPS receiver requires some processing to be done on the host processor though, and this requires a binary blob. Doesn't the GPS System's binary blob require a PIN number ?
that attorney should be fired for gross incompetence.
I think you mean disbarred, nationally and permanently. Fired would probably include some sort of golden parachute payoff of a few million. Not if it's from a cannon of the appropriate caliber aimed at a brick wall (which is how all lawyers should be fired, but that's just me).
So, to be clear. Every seat has a seat-back screen in front of it, capable of displaying messages - but you would prefer a separate wire going to every seat to power a 'fasten your seatbelts' bulb?
Uh, OK. I'm in favor of a full fledged IRC server so that the pilots can talk to the passengers. After all if you have a network why not use it./join UA435 --- Welcome to Flight United Airlines 435 to Tokyo --- Please read the safety card in the back of the seat on fron of you
<seat44G> HOW DOES THIS THING WORK? <seat112A> LOL n00b !!! <Pilot> Please fasten your seatbelts
Why is that? Simple, for whatever reason this was one of those occasions where Apple decided not to kill third party apps with its own solution. The average user doesn't need ftp upload. Those who do will be savvy enough to get a client or will use the terminal. It's 2008 and *FTP clients* on the Mac are still third party apps... Fetch is $25... Granted the one that has a name with a duck in it (can't remember what it's called offhand even though I used it) is free IIRC, but there still are lots of commercial ones.
Actually I can't believe how much completely basic software is sold for the Mac. Maybe it's the same with Windows though. I guess I've spent too long with Linux.
I don't mind paying (and do pay) for my image processing software, for my games, for my language software or for whatever else I might need that's worth the price... but this strikes me as being kind of ridiculous.
This only works in Mac OSX. Doesn't work in Windows or Linux installed on the MacBook. Proprietary driver issues. Works fine in Linux with a normal (random PC) laptop to get to the second button though (the "right" button being the third one).
So you get buttons one and three via the physical buttons of the laptop and button two via a two finger tap on the trackpad (courtesy of the synaptics driver). And side scrolling on the trackpad actually works too (as opposed to doing weird things as in Windows...) The two finger thing for scrolling works fine in MacOS too BTW.
From my few uses of Windows laptops I've concluded that trackpad support is fairly incomplete. Or maybe a third party app was required.
What are the odds that every living organism that is currently still here survived the thousands of required generations of revisions to be where they are today? That's easy, the odds are exactly one.
1. The enemy of my enemy is my friend 2. Linux will get cool stores, too 3. OOO is just as good as MS Office 4. KDE 5 will look just like Aqua Ewww... I guess I'll have to switch to XFCE then.
So why didn't just keep it and load Ubuntu on it? Sounds fishy to me. Because the WiFi was apparently unsupported, because the G4 was underpowered, because Linux on non x86 hardware on the desktop can be problematic when you use commercial software and because a single button mouse in a major pain in the neither regions to use in X.
I still have the 12" iBook which currently serves as a paper weight. It has been replaced by a Samsung Q35.
I have recently tried to use a MacBookPro. Yes, it has fink, yes, it can use some of the programs which are so effortlessly available under Ubuntu.
To make long story short, I returned it in disgust and got a Linux laptop instead. So far, all is fine. Same here. I used my iBook for a year before giving up on it and going back to a random laptop with Linux. And I don't really program all tham much. I mostly use my laptop to dump my photos, to write and to access the network on the go.
I found that OS X was pretty much a polished Windows. No network integration, no convenience, I really couldn't wait to get back to a proper Unix desktop. Yes, OS X "just works". But then so does pretty much anything. And OS X (at least 10.4) still can't reliably connect to a network share (the network browser is *really* bad) while I can type ftp:// or smb:// in any Linux desktop. And it still does click to focus. Urk.
Just one question. Why do you assert that a usable GUI has to have stuff like Dialogs, Buttons and Menus and the user has to Click on something ? I find all of these highly cumbersome UI elements. So you're saying a good GUI would just have a window to type commands in ?
Re:Reference Apps are nice in the Real World.
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The problem usually is that spec is not complite. I admit that it is very hard if not impossible to think all alternatives. That is why the system must be as public as possible.
And I agree that it is a good idea to implement a reference implementation for the spec. Beyond completeness, there is also legibility. For anyone who has worked in telecommunications, the CCITT (now called something else) docs were absolutely horrible to read. At the time discovering the RFCs was real a breath of fresh air. They were sooo much clearer. They both had the same problem of sometimes not covering all cases but at least it was easy to parse most RFCs.
A lot of the ISO docs I've seen (admittedly I haven't seen many) were also quite horrible to read.
So IMO if you want a clean implementation, write a clean documentation instead of a twisting mess of little paragraphs (with grues).
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I only got a boot sector virus once. Now, I just fdisk
I may have had anynumber of boot sector viruses. I dont know. They all disappear
before I have a chance to detect them. As an aside here's the problem with that scheme :
*time goes by*
Then :
- Machine boots
- MBR loads Windows *and* virus
- Windows overwrites MBR
- Presumably Virus checks for prior infection
- Virus overwrites MBR (sounds familiar?)
- stuff happens (?)
- machine shuts down
Windows cannot protect the MBR if windows is running or not AND THEY SHOUDLNT.Its really up to the hardware vendors.
Put it into BIOS or have a jumper on the drive.
( Simple effortless fix, vs MAJOR CLUSTER F*** )
( I used to turn it off, and then fdisk
I always thought it was a nice feature. Where the hell did it go? If infection of the MBR by a virus is a concern, hardware protection (as in having the controller forbid access) is indeed the only real solution in the current Windows context.
I only got a boot sector virus once. Now, I just fdisk
Problem Exists Between Keyboard and Chair
Hmm... choices, choices...
Same difference IMO.
That's not what my users have been telling me...
Those sneaky weasels !
1) That's "Slashdot". -1 for capitalization, -5 for spelling.
2) Nazi is capitalized. Also shouldn't it be Nazi's ? You know, just so we'd have something to bitch about on slow days ?
People follow marketoïds even though you, I, and presumably most of us here aren't too fond of the idea.
Does Office 2007 move the window content when you move the "elevator" widget in the side bar ?
Or is it that still broken ?
(I don't use Windows apps much, so maybe it was finally fixed in Office 2003 or something, I gave up on their stuff long before that since I've always had a choice)
(hint : Binary Large OBject)
I think you mean disbarred, nationally and permanently. Fired would probably include some sort of golden parachute payoff of a few million. Not if it's from a cannon of the appropriate caliber aimed at a brick wall (which is how all lawyers should be fired, but that's just me).
Uh, OK. I'm in favor of a full fledged IRC server so that the pilots can talk to the passengers. After all if you have a network why not use it.
--- Welcome to Flight United Airlines 435 to Tokyo
--- Please read the safety card in the back of the seat on fron of you
<seat44G> HOW DOES THIS THING WORK?
<seat112A> LOL n00b !!!
<Pilot> Please fasten your seatbelts
Actually I can't believe how much completely basic software is sold for the Mac. Maybe it's the same with Windows though. I guess I've spent too long with Linux.
I don't mind paying (and do pay) for my image processing software, for my games, for my language software or for whatever else I might need that's worth the price... but this strikes me as being kind of ridiculous.
So you get buttons one and three via the physical buttons of the laptop and button two via a two finger tap on the trackpad (courtesy of the synaptics driver). And side scrolling on the trackpad actually works too (as opposed to doing weird things as in Windows...) The two finger thing for scrolling works fine in MacOS too BTW.
From my few uses of Windows laptops I've concluded that trackpad support is fairly incomplete. Or maybe a third party app was required.
2. Linux will get cool stores, too
3. OOO is just as good as MS Office
4. KDE 5 will look just like Aqua Ewww...
I guess I'll have to switch to XFCE then.
I still have the 12" iBook which currently serves as a paper weight. It has been replaced by a Samsung Q35.
Yes, it has fink, yes, it can use some of the programs which are so effortlessly available under Ubuntu.
To make long story short, I returned it in disgust and got a Linux laptop instead. So far, all is fine. Same here. I used my iBook for a year before giving up on it and going back to a random laptop with Linux. And I don't really program all tham much. I mostly use my laptop to dump my photos, to write and to access the network on the go.
I found that OS X was pretty much a polished Windows. No network integration, no convenience, I really couldn't wait to get back to a proper Unix desktop. Yes, OS X "just works". But then so does pretty much anything.
And OS X (at least 10.4) still can't reliably connect to a network share (the network browser is *really* bad) while I can type ftp:// or smb:// in any Linux desktop. And it still does click to focus. Urk.
And I agree that it is a good idea to implement a reference implementation for the spec. Beyond completeness, there is also legibility. For anyone who has worked in telecommunications, the CCITT (now called something else) docs were absolutely horrible to read. At the time discovering the RFCs was real a breath of fresh air. They were sooo much clearer.
They both had the same problem of sometimes not covering all cases but at least it was easy to parse most RFCs.
A lot of the ISO docs I've seen (admittedly I haven't seen many) were also quite horrible to read.
So IMO if you want a clean implementation, write a clean documentation instead of a twisting mess of little paragraphs (with grues).