Real Has been dead to me since they released Realplayer G2. Realplayer 5 was reliable, simple, small, and unintrusive. Since they released G2, it's been a downward spiral of overbloat, Adware and Spyware.
Hey Democrats. Looking for an issue? How about dropping the "Tax cuts for the Rich" and the "It's the Economy Stupid" Garbage and adopt a platform based on the Protection of civil liberities? With all of this "Homeland Security" running out the wazoo and back, and our freedoms going out the door one by one, maybe you would get people listening to what you have to say if you start informing people that their freedom is at risk.
Now before you start thinking that this would never happen, just think of all the other products out there that block popups and what would happen to them once it's built into IE. They lose revenue, Claim Microsoft is using it's OS Monopoly to put them out of business and sue MS to death until they either get money or get it removed.
Although Microsoft has most likely done reasearch on pop up ad's and are aware of their customers wanting such a feature, Especially when MSN competitors are touting Pop Up Blockers as a feature of their service, not to mention the deceptive nature of popups these days, Microsoft Will not do it.
Why you Ask? Because They will get Sued for Being a Monopoly or Stifiling Competition, and Lose.
Dont Believe Me? When Outlook Express 4 was in it's beta stages, It had a spam filter similar to the one that Hotmail and Outlook currently have. You dont see it in Outlook Express because a company that was sending newsletters sued them for being a Monopoly because the Spam filter would fiter the companies Legitmate E-mail. Even though Microsoft explained that it was the way they were sending the mail and there was an easy fix to it, they didn't budge, They won the case, and Spam continues to flow to inboxes.
You assume that everyone is using auto update. thats not the case in many circumstances.
First of all, they have to click on the icon when it tells them that new updates are ready to be installed. most people dont do that. I cant tell you how many people come in with machines that have that icon flashing in the corner waiting to be clicked on to intall the already downloaded update. Why do you think they added the download and install at a certain time feature to the automatic update feature in SP1.
Just for refernece. The Bug used by KAK to spread was fixed way before KAK was wild. I can't tell you how many machines I seen infected with KAK.
When all of the college students here on campus had read/write shares on the network, Nimda Spread at an alarming rate, Especially since WinXP Home decided that you SHOULD have your Shared Documents folder open for read/write access after running one of those networking wizards.
I could only imagine the hell a Modified Nimda would be if it can now infect mp3 files. It wouldn't even have to spread infected.eml files anymore. you would just see a new MP3 in your read/write network share with thousands of other MP3's so you would never find it and it would infect all of your MP3's in your read/write network share. Once you open the folder to pick a song it runs and infects all of your mp3's on the PC, then goes out and proceeds to infect every mp3 it can write to on the network that has read/write shares and the process starts all over again while it formats your hard drive 7 days later.
I Figured they would show this series sooner or later, considering that a lot of their series are licenced from Pioneer and all.
For those of you not familar with the series, it's best Described as a Post Apocalyptic Western. Lots of gunfighting, more gunfighting and even more gunfighting. It's an anime that will make the National Rifle Assc. proud.
3 things should be considered about it however.
1) Vash (the Main Character) is really crazy in the beginning. If your expecting a Cowboy bebop character like spike from the beginning you're going to be disappointed. He gets more serious towards the end of the series.
2) It's story builds over time. Things will happen that will make you say "How the hell did he do that". Just keep thinking to yourself there's a $$60,000,000,000 reward on this guy for a reason.
Is stiction still likely occur on newer makes of IDE drives or have manufacturers beaten the problems which caused this in the past?
My guess is that most manufactures have improved on their designs in order to minimize this problem, especially since companies like maxtor have been pushing their 5400 RPM Drives as a backup solution, but there is still a chance that it could happen and for an offsite solution it wouldn't be the best choice
Likewise how likely is bit drop-out and general data degradation over say a 5 year and 10 year period, and what do people think would be the likely maximum feasible time that a shelved drive would be usable for?
I had 30 IBM ps/2 50z in my basement at one time. I think 3 of them had good hard drives. 3/30 is not good odds considering that they are only 15 years old. Newer Drives have improved on these older mediums but they are also more dense, increasing the chance of degradation over time.
Any suggestions as to how would I need to store drives in order to minimize these types of problem and maximise their feasible life as archival media.
Keep them away from heat and humidity and spin up frequently. although some manufactures vary is their suggestions
Basicially, a Hard drive array is a good idea in a daily to weekly backup schedule. especially if they are networked on a rack or in a server and have RAID 5 reliability.
Anything beyond weekly should be done on tape backups. the ATL Tape Libraries are nice rack tape loaders, and are networked.
also make sure that the backup system can be racked. if they can you can put a backup rack in a different networked building from the servers and that could constitute an off site backup in many cases.
I'd have to recommend Peachtree over many other accounting apps out there. Although it has a slight learing curve it's very powerful and reliable.
It is unfortunate that Intuit is alienating its customers to the point of them turning to other accounting apps. When that happens most companies tend to migrate to the most visable Platform out there, which is usually Microsoft. It wouldn't suprise me if in two years Intuit Sues Microsoft for being a accounting software monopoly instead of Intuit listening to their own customers and giving them what they want.
The GBA doesn't count here. When it comes to Portable gaming, your either on GBA or not at all and besides, the GBA is in basicially a Miniture SNES. Guess where Squaresoft resided during the 16 bit era.
As for the Cube. as Quoted from the IGN Article
"It was announced that Nintendo would loan Square money from its Q Fund to start a new development house called Game Designer's Studio. In turn, the new studio would develop a Final Fantasy title for GameCube and Game Boy Advance."
Basicially, Nintendo is Paying them to make a game for the cube. They most likely wouldn't be making this game if Nintendo didn't walk into Cash Strapped Squaresoft with Bags of money and said "You shall make a game for the Gamecube"
The exploit doesn't scare me as much as it adds more fuel to the SuperVirus theory I've been worried about for awile.
I believe that it's only a matter of time before someone creates a "SuperVirus", A Virus with all previously successful exploits, and unleases it on the world.
With the recent outbreaks of klez, code red, nimda, kak, sircam, and other viruses that do minor damage and proliferate fast through multiple exploits its only a matter of time until a script kiddie gets it into his head to combine them all and make a virus that infects everything, spreads though multiple existing holes, and does a massive amount of damage via either DDOS, Format after a set time, or Both.
How does these copy protections stop me from hooking up my Portable CD player to my PC through the Line in jack, and record the music playing off of the Portable CD Player? Are they using "Macrovision-like" watermarking to where if it's encoded into wav it sounds distorted or garbled?
Sure it might take longer and you'll have to listen to the whole CD, but it still is an.ogg in the end.
"My prediction is that within three years time, Microsoft will `give away' its operating system to preserve its revenue in the applications business."
I dont think that MS would be giving away the OS, as much as they will be possibly forced to in the Future.
I Still say that the best remedy to the Antitrust case would have been simply to Force MS to GPL OSS all previous, current and Future Operating systems, as well as the software Attached to it, Such as Wordpad and IE.
The reason for this being that for years MS competitors have claimed that MS used it's OS monopoly to create a monopoly around other markets, such as IE or Office, and to cripple products that compete with them. By Forcing them to OSS all OS's, competitors to these other marketrs, Such as Corel Wordperfect, could make their product better simply by Knowing exactly how the OS works, making their product work better with the OS. This also opens up the door to Windows Distrubutions such as the Case with Linux, Creating Competition in the OS Sector, and Creating Better Windows Emulation on Other OS's such as Wine for Linux.
Although I'm sad to see the Anime go from adult swim, I believe it's going for a reason.
The big problem that I saw with it was that CN appeared to take the easiest and safest way out when it came to the shows they selected. They looked for shows that were pretty much dubbed already and threw them into a sat. night block. MGS has been translated (badly) for years now. Yu Yu Hakusho, although translated pretty well, is nowhere near as harsh as the actual show Was.
I would like to see Trigun, Bezerk, Slayers, Lodoss War or Hellsing here, but I know it would never happen and what would happen to it if it did. For Example Trigun has too many guns so you risk some kid blowing his head off cause he thinks he's Vash (Or as I like to refer to it, SKS - Stupid Kid Syndrome). Hellsing Would make the Christian Coailation go Insane, Would be edited to death because of all the Violence, blood and raw gore, and again back to SKS.
Like Cowboy Bebop? Good. There's a boatload of anime that is similar to it. maybe not with the same amount of charm or style, but identical when it comes to the action, gunfighting and the like. The American Viewer Seems to like the "Gunfighting, Die-Hard/Dirty Harry like, action packed, one man killing Spree" genre so give it to them instead of stuff the're not interested in at this time.
Oh. And finally, I know that almost all Recent anime anymore is either a CardCaptor Anime, (YuGiOh, Fighting Foodons, Cardcaptors, ETC) or a Pocket Monster Anime (Transformers Armada, Pokemon, Digimon, ETC). Unfortunatly this stuff is coming over here because it puts SKS to a good use when it comes to getting the Kid To spend their Parents money. Don't Judge anime based on these. There is a Lot of stuff out there that will appeal to just about anyone. You just have to go looking for it.
You're The First Person I've ever met that had anything good to say about Home Movies.
I watch Adult swim Frequently and I find Home Movies to be boring, Slow and uneventful.
Harvey Birdman, Aqua Teen Hunger force, Sealab 2021 or Just about any other Adult Swim show could replace Home Movies and would Probably get more Ratings hands down, and would be a hellava lot more funnier.
This Question appeared in my Forum a few months back. It asked an interesting question about superman.
We all know Superman. The last son of Krypton. We know his strength is derived from the earth's yellow sun. We know that contact with kryptonite (chunks of his former world) and filtering of the yellow sun's rays, making it a red sun, will drain Superman of his powers. THe question arose, what if someone filtered out the Yellow sun, making it a red sun like his home world, AND had Kryptonite? Would Superman die? Would he lose his powers more quickly? Or would a double negative take effect and he remains unharmed and retains his powers?
Despite what the article says, the cat flap was not connected to the 1000 Megaton orbiting nuclear bomb.
Well that a relief. Now I can breathe easier knowing that the difference between life or death isn't tied to which cat tries to enter this guy's house.:)
Among these was a cat flap connected to an atomic bomb in space. The device was fitted with a colour sensor, designed to admit his ginger cat but block the passage of a neighbour's black moggie
Hmm. Looks Like This Company is Infringing on a patent:)
Slashdot Mirror
Real Has been dead to me since they released Realplayer G2. Realplayer 5 was reliable, simple, small, and unintrusive. Since they released G2, it's been a downward spiral of overbloat, Adware and Spyware.
http://www.pckeyboard.com/
They made the original IBM keyboards and they still make them.
So George Orwell was off by 20 years.
Hey Democrats. Looking for an issue? How about dropping the "Tax cuts for the Rich" and the "It's the Economy Stupid" Garbage and adopt a platform based on the Protection of civil liberities? With all of this "Homeland Security" running out the wazoo and back, and our freedoms going out the door one by one, maybe you would get people listening to what you have to say if you start informing people that their freedom is at risk.
here's is the story. I made a mistake in saying it was OE4 when it was OE5
Now before you start thinking that this would never happen, just think of all the other products out there that block popups and what would happen to them once it's built into IE. They lose revenue, Claim Microsoft is using it's OS Monopoly to put them out of business and sue MS to death until they either get money or get it removed.
Although Microsoft has most likely done reasearch on pop up ad's and are aware of their customers wanting such a feature, Especially when MSN competitors are touting Pop Up Blockers as a feature of their service, not to mention the deceptive nature of popups these days, Microsoft Will not do it.
Why you Ask? Because They will get Sued for Being a Monopoly or Stifiling Competition, and Lose.
Dont Believe Me? When Outlook Express 4 was in it's beta stages, It had a spam filter similar to the one that Hotmail and Outlook currently have. You dont see it in Outlook Express because a company that was sending newsletters sued them for being a Monopoly because the Spam filter would fiter the companies Legitmate E-mail. Even though Microsoft explained that it was the way they were sending the mail and there was an easy fix to it, they didn't budge, They won the case, and Spam continues to flow to inboxes.
That Russia gets more Democratic while America gets more Communistic.
You assume that everyone is using auto update. thats not the case in many circumstances.
First of all, they have to click on the icon when it tells them that new updates are ready to be installed. most people dont do that. I cant tell you how many people come in with machines that have that icon flashing in the corner waiting to be clicked on to intall the already downloaded update. Why do you think they added the download and install at a certain time feature to the automatic update feature in SP1.
Just for refernece. The Bug used by KAK to spread was fixed way before KAK was wild. I can't tell you how many machines I seen infected with KAK.
And I thought Nimda was bad.
.eml files anymore. you would just see a new MP3 in your read/write network share with thousands of other MP3's so you would never find it and it would infect all of your MP3's in your read/write network share. Once you open the folder to pick a song it runs and infects all of your mp3's on the PC, then goes out and proceeds to infect every mp3 it can write to on the network that has read/write shares and the process starts all over again while it formats your hard drive 7 days later.
:P
When all of the college students here on campus had read/write shares on the network, Nimda Spread at an alarming rate, Especially since WinXP Home decided that you SHOULD have your Shared Documents folder open for read/write access after running one of those networking wizards.
I could only imagine the hell a Modified Nimda would be if it can now infect mp3 files. It wouldn't even have to spread infected
It's the RIAA Dream come true
http://www.secure-it.com/products/linkit.htm
although Zia is different and more powerful in many ways from this system, the basic idea is there, (when you walk away it secures the laptop.)
I Figured they would show this series sooner or later, considering that a lot of their series are licenced from Pioneer and all.
:)
For those of you not familar with the series, it's best Described as a Post Apocalyptic Western. Lots of gunfighting, more gunfighting and even more gunfighting. It's an anime that will make the National Rifle Assc. proud.
3 things should be considered about it however.
1) Vash (the Main Character) is really crazy in the beginning. If your expecting a Cowboy bebop character like spike from the beginning you're going to be disappointed. He gets more serious towards the end of the series.
2) It's story builds over time. Things will happen that will make you say "How the hell did he do that". Just keep thinking to yourself there's a $$60,000,000,000 reward on this guy for a reason.
3) Dont ask about the Cat.
Well, we got two short glasses with our company logo on them. They should go nicely will the two tall glasses with our company logo I got Last year
Next year I hope I get two glass plates with our company logo on them to complete the set.
Is stiction still likely occur on newer makes of IDE drives or have manufacturers beaten the problems which caused this in the past?
My guess is that most manufactures have improved on their designs in order to minimize this problem, especially since companies like maxtor have been pushing their 5400 RPM Drives as a backup solution, but there is still a chance that it could happen and for an offsite solution it wouldn't be the best choice
Likewise how likely is bit drop-out and general data degradation over say a 5 year and 10 year period, and what do people think would be the likely maximum feasible time that a shelved drive would be usable for?
I had 30 IBM ps/2 50z in my basement at one time. I think 3 of them had good hard drives. 3/30 is not good odds considering that they are only 15 years old. Newer Drives have improved on these older mediums but they are also more dense, increasing the chance of degradation over time.
Any suggestions as to how would I need to store drives in order to minimize these types of problem and maximise their feasible life as archival media.
Keep them away from heat and humidity and spin up frequently. although some manufactures vary is their suggestions
Basicially, a Hard drive array is a good idea in a daily to weekly backup schedule. especially if they are networked on a rack or in a server and have RAID 5 reliability.
Anything beyond weekly should be done on tape backups. the ATL Tape Libraries are nice rack tape loaders, and are networked.
also make sure that the backup system can be racked. if they can you can put a backup rack in a different networked building from the servers and that could constitute an off site backup in many cases.
I'd have to recommend Peachtree over many other accounting apps out there. Although it has a slight learing curve it's very powerful and reliable.
It is unfortunate that Intuit is alienating its customers to the point of them turning to other accounting apps. When that happens most companies tend to migrate to the most visable Platform out there, which is usually Microsoft. It wouldn't suprise me if in two years Intuit Sues Microsoft for being a accounting software monopoly instead of Intuit listening to their own customers and giving them what they want.
Does Slashdot have suggestions for destinations, or for web sites where people share their experiences."
:)
If your reading this I think you found it already
The GBA doesn't count here. When it comes to Portable gaming, your either on GBA or not at all and besides, the GBA is in basicially a Miniture SNES. Guess where Squaresoft resided during the 16 bit era.
As for the Cube. as Quoted from the IGN Article
"It was announced that Nintendo would loan Square money from its Q Fund to start a new development house called Game Designer's Studio. In turn, the new studio would develop a Final Fantasy title for GameCube and Game Boy Advance."
Basicially, Nintendo is Paying them to make a game for the cube. They most likely wouldn't be making this game if Nintendo didn't walk into Cash Strapped Squaresoft with Bags of money and said "You shall make a game for the Gamecube"
..Square RPG's on other systems besides Sony.
The exploit doesn't scare me as much as it adds more fuel to the SuperVirus theory I've been worried about for awile.
I believe that it's only a matter of time before someone creates a "SuperVirus", A Virus with all previously successful exploits, and unleases it on the world.
With the recent outbreaks of klez, code red, nimda, kak, sircam, and other viruses that do minor damage and proliferate fast through multiple exploits its only a matter of time until a script kiddie gets it into his head to combine them all and make a virus that infects everything, spreads though multiple existing holes, and does a massive amount of damage via either DDOS, Format after a set time, or Both.
If you can hear it, you can rip it.
.ogg in the end.
How does these copy protections stop me from hooking up my Portable CD player to my PC through the Line in jack, and record the music playing off of the Portable CD Player? Are they using "Macrovision-like" watermarking to where if it's encoded into wav it sounds distorted or garbled?
Sure it might take longer and you'll have to listen to the whole CD, but it still is an
"My prediction is that within three years time, Microsoft will `give away' its operating system to preserve its revenue in the applications business."
I dont think that MS would be giving away the OS, as much as they will be possibly forced to in the Future.
I Still say that the best remedy to the Antitrust case would have been simply to Force MS to GPL OSS all previous, current and Future Operating systems, as well as the software Attached to it, Such as Wordpad and IE.
The reason for this being that for years MS competitors have claimed that MS used it's OS monopoly to create a monopoly around other markets, such as IE or Office, and to cripple products that compete with them. By Forcing them to OSS all OS's, competitors to these other marketrs, Such as Corel Wordperfect, could make their product better simply by Knowing exactly how the OS works, making their product work better with the OS. This also opens up the door to Windows Distrubutions such as the Case with Linux, Creating Competition in the OS Sector, and Creating Better Windows Emulation on Other OS's such as Wine for Linux.
Although I'm sad to see the Anime go from adult swim, I believe it's going for a reason.
The big problem that I saw with it was that CN appeared to take the easiest and safest way out when it came to the shows they selected. They looked for shows that were pretty much dubbed already and threw them into a sat. night block. MGS has been translated (badly) for years now. Yu Yu Hakusho, although translated pretty well, is nowhere near as harsh as the actual show Was.
I would like to see Trigun, Bezerk, Slayers, Lodoss War or Hellsing here, but I know it would never happen and what would happen to it if it did. For Example Trigun has too many guns so you risk some kid blowing his head off cause he thinks he's Vash (Or as I like to refer to it, SKS - Stupid Kid Syndrome). Hellsing Would make the Christian Coailation go Insane, Would be edited to death because of all the Violence, blood and raw gore, and again back to SKS.
Like Cowboy Bebop? Good. There's a boatload of anime that is similar to it. maybe not with the same amount of charm or style, but identical when it comes to the action, gunfighting and the like. The American Viewer Seems to like the "Gunfighting, Die-Hard/Dirty Harry like, action packed, one man killing Spree" genre so give it to them instead of stuff the're not interested in at this time.
Oh. And finally, I know that almost all Recent anime anymore is either a CardCaptor Anime, (YuGiOh, Fighting Foodons, Cardcaptors, ETC) or a Pocket Monster Anime (Transformers Armada, Pokemon, Digimon, ETC). Unfortunatly this stuff is coming over here because it puts SKS to a good use when it comes to getting the Kid To spend their Parents money. Don't Judge anime based on these. There is a Lot of stuff out there that will appeal to just about anyone. You just have to go looking for it.
Congragulations.
You're The First Person I've ever met that had anything good to say about Home Movies.
I watch Adult swim Frequently and I find Home Movies to be boring, Slow and uneventful.
Harvey Birdman, Aqua Teen Hunger force, Sealab 2021 or Just about any other Adult Swim show could replace Home Movies and would Probably get more Ratings hands down, and would be a hellava lot more funnier.
This Question appeared in my Forum a few months back. It asked an interesting question about superman.
We all know Superman. The last son of Krypton. We know his strength is derived from the earth's yellow sun. We know that contact with kryptonite (chunks of his former world) and filtering of the yellow sun's rays, making it a red sun, will drain Superman of his powers. THe question arose, what if someone filtered out the Yellow sun, making it a red sun like his home world, AND had Kryptonite? Would Superman die? Would he lose his powers more quickly? Or would a double negative take effect and he remains unharmed and retains his powers?
Despite what the article says, the cat flap was not connected to the 1000 Megaton orbiting nuclear bomb.
:)
Well that a relief. Now I can breathe easier knowing that the difference between life or death isn't tied to which cat tries to enter this guy's house.
Among these was a cat flap connected to an atomic bomb in space. The device was fitted with a colour sensor, designed to admit his ginger cat but block the passage of a neighbour's black moggie
:)
Hmm. Looks Like This Company is Infringing on a patent
My Personal Favorite is From Fortres Clean Slate 1.1 BSOD
COW: There Are No Pages Left. It Is Too Deep.