I bet this guy is also glad the period wasn't 90 days when he was picked up. (Short synopsis - (this was probably reported here before) the guy was picked up by UK police under anti-terror legislation because he a) didn't look at the police officers outside the station b) checked his mobile for messages and c) had a rucsac which he kept on his back).
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I am shocked to read that SonyBMG is now incorporating software onto its audio disks which hides executables, files and registry entries in such a way that could easily be exploited by virus and spyware writers to hide malicious software.
Although I use an operating system (Linux) which, thankfully, isn't susceptible to such malware tactics, I will not be purchasing any further SonyBMG products until such a time as this ill-conceived software is removed.
I gather that you do not even provide an uninstaller for this malware without the customer jumping through hoops of contacting your customer support organisation and furthermore your patching/uninstall process appears to require that your customers install Microsoft Internet Explorer and enable ActiveX, both of which are acknowledged as being security risks in and of themselves.
I sincerely hope that you reconsider this despicable practice of compromising the security of the computers of your paying customers. As I stated above, I will not be joining the ranks of your paying customers until such a time as you do cease this free assistance to virus/spyware/malware writers.
I am not holding my breath either for a change in your policy or even for a non-proforma answer to my points above. Feel free to surprise me!
P.S. Please inform your web developers that your email feedback form is broken: "+" is a perfectly valid character in email addresses. Please ask them to read RFC822 if they are in any doubt over this.
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To (probably mis-) quote Wolfgang Pauli: "This isn't right. This isn't even wrong." -- I know what you're thinking, but I am not a nut-bag. -- Millroy the Magician
The Register had
this yesterday.
The reader followups in their postbag indicate that it is less than intelligent in its search, missing large folders of downloaded mp3s and misidentifying legal downloads as dodgy just because they have no DRM.
It is, though, by far the longest single package build on many people's gentoo systems... it certainly is on mine at just over 6 hours. Nothing else on my install comes close, although I guess the fact that (e.g.) KDE is split across many different packages may be the only thing saving it from that accolade.
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[...snip...] outgoing TCP connections (someone internally has to initialize it, then you can get bi-directional communication)....at least with PF.
I think you misspelt "UDP";-). (IANA does list 123/tcp and 123/udp as both being NTP, but it only uses udp).
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Copy and Paste in the real world would be even better...
I'm now eyeing the pound coin on my desk whilst thinking "yup - no serial number to worry about... I can probably carry 2^10 pound coins comfortably... C-x ( C-a C-SPC C-e M-w C-y ) C-u 9 C-x e"
Yes - there's probably a shorter way to do it "C-x ( C-a C-k C-y C-y ) C-u 9 C-x e" perhaps... but the above came more naturally to me. (Once I realised that C-u can't be applied to C-y directly to get a repeat).
Cheers,
MNO -- I'm not politically incorrect, I'm just differently articulate
The first thing that popped into my head was that gadget/toy that consists of a rectangular frame filled with small parallel metal rods; the rods can move in Y (but not in X) to make 3-D images of objects. Often they are used to make replicas of people's faces. What the heck are they called?? Grrr.
I used to use a little Tcl/Tk script that I hacked up to "train" myself on them until the muscle memory for the password kicked in. The script is available here in case anyone is interested.
Nowadays I switched to using PasswordSafe to store a whole bunch of passwords, and now rely on its random generation instead (I keep meaning to modify my pwdrill.tcl script to allow me to enter the "random" password to train on manually, to minimise the number of times I have to look the PW up in passwordsafe before the muscle memory kicks in.)
I totally agree. I'm a PocketPC user, and that is just about the right form factor for me (it makes an excellent chess companion;-)...
For basic contact/appointment stuff, I usually rely on my mobile phone.
If anything I'd probably prefer something slightly larger than the PocketPC form factor for the roles I use it for - a 640x480 screen (as on the new Zaurus) would be nice for digital photo browsing - and a built-in ethernet port would be great (I already have a foldable keyboard). It would make the ideal quick ssh terminal in that case. (I know you can get ethernet CF cards, but those things are too expensive... even the 802.11b wireless CF that I use in it at home is half the price of the cheapest wired ethernet CF I've seen!). Likewise, a serial connection would make it into an extremely useful mobile console in the datacentre server rooms.
(The more I read the above, the more it looks like a miniature laptop is what I'm after... or the venerable Psion 5).
Espresso has lower caffeine per volume than drip coffee,
Nope. Espresso has lower caffeine per typical serving than drip coffee, but has more caffeine per volume.
Reference: The Caffeine FAQ - a 7oz cup of drip coffee has 115-175mg of caffeine compared with 100mg of caffeine in a typical espresso (1.5 - 2oz serving ). (i.e. espresso would have 350-467mg per 7oz)
I'd definitely use one of these - I am already used to the keyboard on my (work) laptop, and much prefer the IBM trackpoint "nipple" mouse to a normal rodent (my hands never have to stray far from the keyboard. I don't find either cramped or inconvenient.
(veering slightly off-topic for a moment) In fact, I'm considering a keyboard with a trackpoint type mouse for my home box, something like this one. Especially if it has a similar feel to the IBM laptop trackpoints... The only downside is that it seems to have only two mouse buttons, and I hate chording those things (the thinkpad I'm using at the moment has 3). It also has the real buckling spring action of the old IBM type M keyboards, which I also love the feel of.
(back on-topic) The unupgradeable interior is the biggest problem though, but aren't laptops getting better in this regard these days? Admittedly, you're never going to be able to throw in the latest, greatest graphics card or other random hardware, but I've never really gone for that on my home (desktop) PC either. Maybe I don't play enough graphics intensive games anymore...
Range depends on the class of the device. The headset type devices are, I believe, class 3 devices and are meant to operate up to 10 metres. Class 1 devices are supposed to be good for 100m. Both of these are based on clear space between the devices, no interference etc. etc. I have no idea what class 2 is.
I manage about 15m through two walls using a class 1 USB bluetooth dongle on my Linux box and my (class 1) PDA (FSC Pocket Loox - has builtin bluetooth). [Why? As a wireless network connection - all I need to do now is finish my PDA internet chess server client then I can play chess online from anywhere in the house. Why not 802.11b? Because the Loox already has BT.]
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I bet this guy is also glad the period wasn't 90 days when he was picked up. (Short synopsis - (this was probably reported here before) the guy was picked up by UK police under anti-terror legislation because he a) didn't look at the police officers outside the station b) checked his mobile for messages and c) had a rucsac which he kept on his back).
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At last! A product mentioned on /. that doesn't suck!
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To (probably mis-) quote Wolfgang Pauli: "This isn't right. This isn't even wrong."
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I know what you're thinking, but I am not a nut-bag. -- Millroy the Magician
The Register had this yesterday. The reader followups in their postbag indicate that it is less than intelligent in its search, missing large folders of downloaded mp3s and misidentifying legal downloads as dodgy just because they have no DRM.
It is, though, by far the longest single package build on many people's gentoo systems... it certainly is on mine at just over 6 hours. Nothing else on my install comes close, although I guess the fact that (e.g.) KDE is split across many different packages may be the only thing saving it from that accolade.
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Me too!!!!!
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Oh, and you owe me a new keyboard!
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Small correction to the above: I assume you mean Negativland (noe "e").
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I think you misspelt "UDP" ;-). (IANA does list 123/tcp and 123/udp as both being NTP, but it only uses udp).
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I'm now eyeing the pound coin on my desk whilst thinking "yup - no serial number to worry about... I can probably carry 2^10 pound coins comfortably ... C-x ( C-a C-SPC C-e M-w C-y ) C-u 9 C-x e"
Yes - there's probably a shorter way to do it "C-x ( C-a C-k C-y C-y ) C-u 9 C-x e" perhaps... but the above came more naturally to me. (Once I realised that C-u can't be applied to C-y directly to get a repeat).
Cheers,
MNO
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No can do - too much prior art out there ;-)
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He is certainly not "someone who never finished reading that neat book about physics". In fact Frank Wilczek does know a thing or two about QCD and hence gluons.
"Zem", usually. Or am I thinking of mattresses?
Maybe you need another month back on QWERTY ;-)
(One caveat: I haven't tried the contact sheets under Linux, but I use it all the time as an image browser there.)
It is freeware for non-commercial use (although not opensource).
Cheers,
Mark
I used to use a little Tcl/Tk script that I hacked up to "train" myself on them until the muscle memory for the password kicked in. The script is available here in case anyone is interested.
Nowadays I switched to using PasswordSafe to store a whole bunch of passwords, and now rely on its random generation instead (I keep meaning to modify my pwdrill.tcl script to allow me to enter the "random" password to train on manually, to minimise the number of times I have to look the PW up in passwordsafe before the muscle memory kicks in.)
For basic contact/appointment stuff, I usually rely on my mobile phone.
If anything I'd probably prefer something slightly larger than the PocketPC form factor for the roles I use it for - a 640x480 screen (as on the new Zaurus) would be nice for digital photo browsing - and a built-in ethernet port would be great (I already have a foldable keyboard). It would make the ideal quick ssh terminal in that case. (I know you can get ethernet CF cards, but those things are too expensive... even the 802.11b wireless CF that I use in it at home is half the price of the cheapest wired ethernet CF I've seen!). Likewise, a serial connection would make it into an extremely useful mobile console in the datacentre server rooms.
(The more I read the above, the more it looks like a miniature laptop is what I'm after... or the venerable Psion 5).
Reference: The Caffeine FAQ - a 7oz cup of drip coffee has 115-175mg of caffeine compared with 100mg of caffeine in a typical espresso (1.5 - 2oz serving ). (i.e. espresso would have 350-467mg per 7oz)
HTH
and use the vi(le) style movement keys ;-)
(Yes - I know you were joking!)
(veering slightly off-topic for a moment) In fact, I'm considering a keyboard with a trackpoint type mouse for my home box, something like this one. Especially if it has a similar feel to the IBM laptop trackpoints... The only downside is that it seems to have only two mouse buttons, and I hate chording those things (the thinkpad I'm using at the moment has 3). It also has the real buckling spring action of the old IBM type M keyboards, which I also love the feel of.
(back on-topic) The unupgradeable interior is the biggest problem though, but aren't laptops getting better in this regard these days? Admittedly, you're never going to be able to throw in the latest, greatest graphics card or other random hardware, but I've never really gone for that on my home (desktop) PC either. Maybe I don't play enough graphics intensive games anymore...
I manage about 15m through two walls using a class 1 USB bluetooth dongle on my Linux box and my (class 1) PDA (FSC Pocket Loox - has builtin bluetooth). [Why? As a wireless network connection - all I need to do now is finish my PDA internet chess server client then I can play chess online from anywhere in the house. Why not 802.11b? Because the Loox already has BT.]