That's the nice thing about Virtual PC 2007 - I can actually run Dos/WFW3.11 on it and yes, there are a few apps that still need it and the updates (if any) don't offer the stability or features of the 3.11 version. Another thing is, I still have the TCP/IP stack for WFW3.11 so it's capable of connecting to the net if ever allowed along with a copy of Netscape for WFW (Yep I'm a pack rat) that came on CD. Guess I'll have to see how badly things have changed from then (I do like my right click though).
The only problem with Virtual PC is it doesn't support anything older then XP unless you have a copy of Virtual PC 2007. That's the version that still supports Win98 with working sound. I've got a copy and refuse to give it up as it's the only option for those win95 apps that simply do not work in Win7 - the damn things tend to do some very screwy things and a VM instance is the safest way to run em.
Vonage VOIP Modem - Possible cause of problem. May be trying to phone home and overloading (check its IP on the local network). If it's the cause, you need to adjust the router to improve priority (QoS) for that device.
DirectTV - Another possible cause. Poor programming can cause the unit to send multiple attempts and not honor time-out/wait states
WiFi Extender - compromised/hacked/PoS unit
Last - to completely change your IP address, you need to shutdown the modem for 5-10 mins. A simple reboot doesn't work. Also do you have a static IP?
I've expected Google to do this since I signed up for gmail. They're an advertising corporation and only make money from adverts. Does this bother me? Not really as I've taken steps from the beginning to devalue my worth to them for advertising purposes - the first step was to never complete the fucking profile - it has my handle and an avatar with a nonsense location of "Out of my Mind".
Don't complete your profile nor give em your real name. I haven't nor will do it. They keep bugging me to finish the damn thing but it's finished as far as I'm willing to go.
Seeing as how I don't have a holographic display, why in hell do I need 3d capabilities in the fscking GPU? The first Pure Linux system I built was based on the Nvidia TNT2-M64 AGP card specifically because of 2d Graphics. Now days, you can't get a fucking card that supports 2d graphics as every fucking thing is 3d this 3d that and 3dnow. Fuck this crap. Give me a solid card that's low power, doesn't need a fucking Reactor just to power my desktop and does over 10k in GLGears like that TNT2 card did and I'd be a happy camper.
BTW: Anyone who thinks that ARM/MIPS are open source is an idiot. They're cheap and readily available for a very reasonable license fee but they are not Open Source.
I'll take a fully Open source design that works nicely with X11/Wayland/Mir/?ever they come up with next that does everything I need (video playback, OpenGL support, CAD/CAM) that I can tweak/optimize the fucking drivers for because I have the source over Nvidia, AMD or even Intel.
Seeing as how the HDMI specs are limited to 1920x1080, I'll stick with my DVI or Display Port connections as they can and do support not only 4k but 3D. On the audio issue, I don't give a damn as I tend to use a completely seperate audio system anyhow
what do you mean it's only a matter of time. The god damn constitution isn't worth the paper it's written on since 9/11 and the patriot act was signed into law originally. At that time, the constitution and all the admendments "We The People" passed were thrown out the damn door at 30,000 feet to splatter all over the floors of the United States Congress and Senate
yet I want a robot dog that also doubles as a robot guard. Anyone breaking and Entering gets fed to the gerbils that power the damn thing then. No more Cleanup on Isle 3
Many folks make the same god damn mistake on the energy cost savings by getting a god damn router. Sorry but even in California (most expensive electricity in the U.S. @ 0.15 per kilowatt) your cost savings would need to be in the 100w per hour range to even be a Reasonable ROI (return on investment). $0.15 x 1kw (100 watts x 10 hours) is a meager $1.50. Take a cheap $40 router and you're looking at half a year minimum the payback to be worth it - that's for a system using 100 watts per hour. In the case of something low powered like an Atom based netbook - 20 watts for the CPU/Chipset (No Screen/GUI) you're now talking 2 years or better to even break even.
As an example, I have an old HP system with a 700Mhz Celeron (P3 era) using the Intel 810 chipset. Max power is 100w (PSU rating). In testing, the system uses 10w and can successfully boot from a floppy drive (pfsense). Note that it has 512M of ram (most $40 routers only have 4M) plus the CPU is 10-20 times faster. Hell pfsense or anyother floppy based router OS can damn near fit into the CPU cache. Now the cost to convert this to a router/ap is $0.00 for the simple reason it's already got a 10/100 nic and I have an unused b/g wifi card (PCI based) that can be installed. All I need is a bit of time to configure the unit and once done, it'll outperform any >$100 SoHo router on the market simply because of the amount of memory and cpu speed. All it will cost is some time/effort to setup. Value is priceless because I also learn how to do it.
Hell I bought a dozen (12) 32GB thumb drives (USB flash) for $10 ea. 4x the size at 1/3 the cost so I have to agree that this is a crappy option especially as they've cut the actual cache down from 32M to 64M on these drives by using a meager 8M of flash. don't know if these new Seagates are even worth buying but they've pretty much shot themselves in the foot with this kind of crap.
Prices are Bare drives from Newegg (OEM) Seagate 1TB Barracuda ST100DM003 with 64M cache $70 WD Green Intelipower 1TB Unkonwn Cache $70
Half the cost of the so called Hybrid drives. For the extra $70 you can almost get several different SSD's from 30 to 64 Gigs in capacity.
It's been known for some time that visual effects can and will induce epileptic seizures in some individuals and once this update causes one, there will be a lawsuit against Apple. Oh well, Apple does design some decent hardware but in this case, the idiots need to be forced to use the new effects rapidly until they puke their guts out or die from a Gran Mal seizure,
The only way it compromises the company security is because the idiots didn't configure it correctly. What's needed (Yes I could be wrong) is to have a proxy server and not trust any cert except that one. It does all https connections outside the companies network. Inside any connections outside the corporate network goes through the proxy server. Push out the companies cert to all machines using an AD/Ldap server and be done with it.
Conflating encryption and identity in one awkward mess has probably done more harm than good....
This is exactly why I've taken the time and effort to untrust every fscking cert in my browsers store (firefox). I'll add the needed exceptions for those sites that I absolutely have to have such as my bank, any online merchant such as Newegg, a few other sites that use https to protect their users (self-signed). It's really not that big of an issue since I don't hit to many https sites in any day. IMPO, the god damn browsers would be doing us all a big service is they simply didn't trust by default any fscking certs and allowed the user to make that decision. In the case of corprate systems, that decision isn't the users to make, thus an AD can push out the needed policy and you're done.
Verisign Trustworthy? They're owned by the NSA and have been from the fucking beginning. It's the entire reason the damn net decided on PKI and Root CA's. Anyone remember the debate about Key Escrow? That's what we ended up with and the damn engineers were to blind to even understand that PKI is exactly that.
and this is why I've taken the time/effort to mark every cert in the browser as untrusted - then add exceptions for those locations I actually use.
Personally, I feel that if the god damn browsers went to the untrusted model and allow the user to trust certficates on an as needed basis, we'd be far safer then we currently are. Hell it would kill most of the ads online on any secure site unless served by the site directly because the adverts wouldn't be secure and if using https wouldn't have a trusted certi, making it easy to block any/all connections to them
What do you mean? The NSA already signs every god damn cert issued on the net as they own the Root CA's Private key and have for some time. How in hell do you think they've managed to record the meta-data from every fscking net conversation?
Yet I have decided that my next card is going to be Nvidia because of the POS CCC. Nvidia does include a control panel applet but unlike the POS CCC, it doesn't crash every time I open it plus I can actually disable the Nvidia services since the driver does not depend on it - unlike AMD's latest generation.
because the god damn browser wasn't expected or designed to run code originally. Just like PDF and all the extra crap Adobe keeps adding to Acrobat. The browser was designed as a Page Rendering/Document Veiwing Engine, not a god damn Turing complete OS like it is now.
Try running something like Dillo or Elinks that handles things properly - The browser is just a fscking document viewer and you'll see just how badly designed the web is.
It's the reason I use NoScript in Firefox and have it configured to Deny All by default plus I've gone through and un-trusted every fscking Certificate that's installed int the browser store (especially after the Diginotar incident). Hell I've only got a dozen certs I need to trust anyhow so why have the damn trust model that's being pushed down our throats by the Governments? Root CA's are no more trusted then any other by me. All they do is provide a chain of trust indicating that each company below Verisign has paid their "Dane Geld"
Considering that RFC stands for Request for Cock/Cunt - I'd say that standard is part of the "GOD" standard. Otherwise you wouldn't be able to post on/. would you?
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That's the nice thing about Virtual PC 2007 - I can actually run Dos/WFW3.11 on it and yes, there are a few apps that still need it and the updates (if any) don't offer the stability or features of the 3.11 version. Another thing is, I still have the TCP/IP stack for WFW3.11 so it's capable of connecting to the net if ever allowed along with a copy of Netscape for WFW (Yep I'm a pack rat) that came on CD. Guess I'll have to see how badly things have changed from then (I do like my right click though).
The only problem with Virtual PC is it doesn't support anything older then XP unless you have a copy of Virtual PC 2007. That's the version that still supports Win98 with working sound. I've got a copy and refuse to give it up as it's the only option for those win95 apps that simply do not work in Win7 - the damn things tend to do some very screwy things and a VM instance is the safest way to run em.
The old saying seems to apply today ZK: "IT takes one to know one" says it all doesn't it.
He's Dead Jim.
That's incontrevertible proof. Doesn't tell us what killed him or how he died, Just that "He's Dead Jim."
Simply put, incontrevertible proof can and does exist. It's just not required by Law.
Vonage VOIP Modem - Possible cause of problem. May be trying to phone home and overloading (check its IP on the local network). If it's the cause, you need to adjust the router to improve priority (QoS) for that device.
DirectTV - Another possible cause. Poor programming can cause the unit to send multiple attempts and not honor time-out/wait states
WiFi Extender - compromised/hacked/PoS unit
Last - to completely change your IP address, you need to shutdown the modem for 5-10 mins. A simple reboot doesn't work. Also do you have a static IP?
Finally, get rid of Bit Defender and install MS Security Esentials. If that wont install, you either have an invalid license unless you homebuilt and bought Ultimate - Check here Links to MS DigitalRiver Win7 ISO images
http://forums.mydigitallife.info/threads/14709-Windows-7-Digital-River-direct-links-Multiple-Languages-X86-amp-X64/page72
I've expected Google to do this since I signed up for gmail. They're an advertising corporation and only make money from adverts. Does this bother me? Not really as I've taken steps from the beginning to devalue my worth to them for advertising purposes - the first step was to never complete the fucking profile - it has my handle and an avatar with a nonsense location of "Out of my Mind".
Don't complete your profile nor give em your real name. I haven't nor will do it. They keep bugging me to finish the damn thing but it's finished as far as I'm willing to go.
Seeing as how I don't have a holographic display, why in hell do I need 3d capabilities in the fscking GPU? The first Pure Linux system I built was based on the Nvidia TNT2-M64 AGP card specifically because of 2d Graphics. Now days, you can't get a fucking card that supports 2d graphics as every fucking thing is 3d this 3d that and 3dnow. Fuck this crap. Give me a solid card that's low power, doesn't need a fucking Reactor just to power my desktop and does over 10k in GLGears like that TNT2 card did and I'd be a happy camper.
BTW: Anyone who thinks that ARM/MIPS are open source is an idiot. They're cheap and readily available for a very reasonable license fee but they are not Open Source.
I'll take a fully Open source design that works nicely with X11/Wayland/Mir/?ever they come up with next that does everything I need (video playback, OpenGL support, CAD/CAM) that I can tweak/optimize the fucking drivers for because I have the source over Nvidia, AMD or even Intel.
Seeing as how the HDMI specs are limited to 1920x1080, I'll stick with my DVI or Display Port connections as they can and do support not only 4k but 3D. On the audio issue, I don't give a damn as I tend to use a completely seperate audio system anyhow
what do you mean it's only a matter of time. The god damn constitution isn't worth the paper it's written on since 9/11 and the patriot act was signed into law originally. At that time, the constitution and all the admendments "We The People" passed were thrown out the damn door at 30,000 feet to splatter all over the floors of the United States Congress and Senate
Let me know when the Firefox UI quits freezing when a new tab is opening with lots of scripting and shit
yet I want a robot dog that also doubles as a robot guard. Anyone breaking and Entering gets fed to the gerbils that power the damn thing then. No more Cleanup on Isle 3
the reason for seeing so many admin attempts is all those god damn cheap routers that have admin/pw setups by default.
Many folks make the same god damn mistake on the energy cost savings by getting a god damn router. Sorry but even in California (most expensive electricity in the U.S. @ 0.15 per kilowatt) your cost savings would need to be in the 100w per hour range to even be a Reasonable ROI (return on investment). $0.15 x 1kw (100 watts x 10 hours) is a meager $1.50. Take a cheap $40 router and you're looking at half a year minimum the payback to be worth it - that's for a system using 100 watts per hour. In the case of something low powered like an Atom based netbook - 20 watts for the CPU/Chipset (No Screen/GUI) you're now talking 2 years or better to even break even.
As an example, I have an old HP system with a 700Mhz Celeron (P3 era) using the Intel 810 chipset. Max power is 100w (PSU rating). In testing, the system uses 10w and can successfully boot from a floppy drive (pfsense). Note that it has 512M of ram (most $40 routers only have 4M) plus the CPU is 10-20 times faster. Hell pfsense or anyother floppy based router OS can damn near fit into the CPU cache. Now the cost to convert this to a router/ap is $0.00 for the simple reason it's already got a 10/100 nic and I have an unused b/g wifi card (PCI based) that can be installed. All I need is a bit of time to configure the unit and once done, it'll outperform any >$100 SoHo router on the market simply because of the amount of memory and cpu speed. All it will cost is some time/effort to setup. Value is priceless because I also learn how to do it.
Hell I bought a dozen (12) 32GB thumb drives (USB flash) for $10 ea. 4x the size at 1/3 the cost so I have to agree that this is a crappy option especially as they've cut the actual cache down from 32M to 64M on these drives by using a meager 8M of flash. don't know if these new Seagates are even worth buying but they've pretty much shot themselves in the foot with this kind of crap.
Prices are Bare drives from Newegg (OEM)
Seagate 1TB Barracuda ST100DM003 with 64M cache $70
WD Green Intelipower 1TB Unkonwn Cache $70
Half the cost of the so called Hybrid drives. For the extra $70 you can almost get several different SSD's from 30 to 64 Gigs in capacity.
It's been known for some time that visual effects can and will induce epileptic seizures in some individuals and once this update causes one, there will be a lawsuit against Apple. Oh well, Apple does design some decent hardware but in this case, the idiots need to be forced to use the new effects rapidly until they puke their guts out or die from a Gran Mal seizure,
The only way it compromises the company security is because the idiots didn't configure it correctly. What's needed (Yes I could be wrong) is to have a proxy server and not trust any cert except that one. It does all https connections outside the companies network. Inside any connections outside the corporate network goes through the proxy server. Push out the companies cert to all machines using an AD/Ldap server and be done with it.
Conflating encryption and identity in one awkward mess has probably done more harm than good....
This is exactly why I've taken the time and effort to untrust every fscking cert in my browsers store (firefox). I'll add the needed exceptions for those sites that I absolutely have to have such as my bank, any online merchant such as Newegg, a few other sites that use https to protect their users (self-signed). It's really not that big of an issue since I don't hit to many https sites in any day. IMPO, the god damn browsers would be doing us all a big service is they simply didn't trust by default any fscking certs and allowed the user to make that decision. In the case of corprate systems, that decision isn't the users to make, thus an AD can push out the needed policy and you're done.
Verisign Trustworthy? They're owned by the NSA and have been from the fucking beginning. It's the entire reason the damn net decided on PKI and Root CA's. Anyone remember the debate about Key Escrow? That's what we ended up with and the damn engineers were to blind to even understand that PKI is exactly that.
and this is why I've taken the time/effort to mark every cert in the browser as untrusted - then add exceptions for those locations I actually use.
Personally, I feel that if the god damn browsers went to the untrusted model and allow the user to trust certficates on an as needed basis, we'd be far safer then we currently are. Hell it would kill most of the ads online on any secure site unless served by the site directly because the adverts wouldn't be secure and if using https wouldn't have a trusted certi, making it easy to block any/all connections to them
What do you mean? The NSA already signs every god damn cert issued on the net as they own the Root CA's Private key and have for some time. How in hell do you think they've managed to record the meta-data from every fscking net conversation?
Yet I have decided that my next card is going to be Nvidia because of the POS CCC. Nvidia does include a control panel applet but unlike the POS CCC, it doesn't crash every time I open it plus I can actually disable the Nvidia services since the driver does not depend on it - unlike AMD's latest generation.
because the god damn browser wasn't expected or designed to run code originally. Just like PDF and all the extra crap Adobe keeps adding to Acrobat. The browser was designed as a Page Rendering/Document Veiwing Engine, not a god damn Turing complete OS like it is now.
Try running something like Dillo or Elinks that handles things properly - The browser is just a fscking document viewer and you'll see just how badly designed the web is.
It's the reason I use NoScript in Firefox and have it configured to Deny All by default plus I've gone through and un-trusted every fscking Certificate that's installed int the browser store (especially after the Diginotar incident). Hell I've only got a dozen certs I need to trust anyhow so why have the damn trust model that's being pushed down our throats by the Governments? Root CA's are no more trusted then any other by me. All they do is provide a chain of trust indicating that each company below Verisign has paid their "Dane Geld"
Plug-ins make no sense in light of HTML5 so even Googles NaCL isn't going to be useful for very long.
Considering that RFC stands for Request for Cock/Cunt - I'd say that standard is part of the "GOD" standard. Otherwise you wouldn't be able to post on /. would you?