My home ISP was vulnerable (201.251.7.2) and so was a friend's. I just changed my DNS entries to OpenDNS and told my friend to do the same; took about two minutes. If you find you're vulnerable and don't want to risk being hit by this exploit, just change your DNS servers to the ones listed at http://www.opendns.org/ until this is patched (208.67.222.222 and 208.67.220.220)
I know what you mean. One of the reasons I switched to an Epson printer is that the installer actually limits itself to installing a driver, not 400MB of software I'll never use. I wish the 400MB figure was an exaggeration.
There are so many ways to make available files to a lot of people that getting rid of Usenet may barely be noticed. Even without P2P networks, a lot of people make warez files available through FileFactory, MegaUpload, RapidShare, and similar sites; while some of them are rather restrictive, I dare say they're easier to access for the regular Joe than Usenet is, and you can both upload and download using a proxy so your IP isn't logged.
So I don't see why lists of child porn content hosted in those services won't be available just as easily and readily as they are on Usenet. Sure, those services take down files every now and then, but I still see lists being available in plenty of places and kept up to date; IRC chatrooms, P2P networks, Yahoo groups... there are plenty of places where such lists can be posted.
Trying to stop information, any kind of information, from being spread on the Internet is a really futile excersice. You'd think they would have figured that by now.
Um, if I say I thought the lack of dialog hurt it, will you get me two tickets too? I wouldn't mind seeing it two more times while it's on the theaters...
Y'know, I haven't seen the movie, but I really find this to be impossible. Indeed, the lack of dialogue is the single biggest reason I'm not going to see the movie until I, at the very least, pirate it to see if it's any good: stories without dialogue don't work.
Wall-E makes you care about a dang cochroach, of all things. It gives a lot of personality to a freak cleaner bot that only says two words in the whole movie. It took the lack of verbal communication and turned it into an strength, to the point that when humans enter the picture and start talking, the movie feels ordinary compared to what it came before.
You want to pirate to see if it's any good? Well go ahead and do it, today! A telesync version is already up in the usual places. But I should warn you: watching it with such a loss of quality will take away from several scenes on the movie. The movie relies on the visual a lot, precisely due tot he lack of dialog; take away the image quality, and you're only hurting your own enjoyment of it.
I have some 5 1/4" floppy disks in a box somewhere. I bet that I can plug a 5 1/4" disk drive to my computer and it will work; it still has the connector for floppies. So there you have a medium that is still compatible with modern computers 32 years after creation.
More, 3 1/2" floppy disks were introduced in 1984 and I still see drives for those regularly, 24 years later. They're still being sold, and new 3 1/2" drives with USB plugs are sold for the everyday user.
With that in mind, I see no reason why we won't be seeing USB ports in 2108. Sure, they'll be USB version 20 ports at 3TB/s transfer rate, but I'm willing to bet they'll recognize a USB 1.0 storage device just as well.
This would be an ideal code to include in consumer motherboards: force PCs to shut themselves down when they receive instructions that would damage them, like, say, the Windows Vista setup program.
On that basis my house, next-door's cat and G.W.Bush's arse are also "potentially" interplanetary spacecraft. It's only "technicalities" that prevent them from being so.
Your house and the cat can stay on Earth, I vote we send G.W.Bush's arse on an interplanetary cruise. I hear Pluto is lovely this time of the year.
[quote]The deletion of the Boot.ini file will not cause any data loss. If you format your system to fix the issue then you will lose data. Anyone with the Windows XP CD can boot off of it and repair the OS.[/quote]
That is, assuming the system came with a Windows XP CD. Far too many computers are packaged with a "System Recovery" CD that just clears the main partition and writes an image of the OS in it. A lot of users don't even know that it's possible to install Windows without wiping the hard disk (sadly).
...should be filtering IP's of people in those countries and enforcing the copyright lengths... So that people in those countries have to waste 30 seconds looking for a proxy server to access the content anyway?
I don't know a single person who has "upgraded" to Office 2007. The new UI is not only ugly, but it screws up the training of lots and lots and lots of people who have been click-trained on Office use ("OMG there's no File menu!!! What do I do?!"). At present, people are staying with Office 2003. when Office 2003 is no longer available, OpenOffice.org might find a whole lot of new users looking for the familiar UI that Office 2007 no longer provides.
So it looks like third world countries will be able to buy for an additional 2 years. Starter Edition is useless. Run your web browser, your mail program, your IM program, try to start Winamp... oops, too many programs open, sorry. Oh, you wanted to open more than 3 webpages at once? Can't handle it, sorry. You have more than 256MB of RAM? I'm only allowed to let you use 256MB, sorry. "Starter Edition" = Crippled Edition.
I sure wish people would apply the same pressure on ALL products that require activation I don't think activation has anything to do with this. XP requires activation too, after all. It comes down to familiarity and stability. People are used to XP and know it's reliable (for a Windows version). Vista introduces a new UI that requires a hardware update (new graphics card) to run on most existing machines (speaking of regular people here, not geeks), and there are plenty of horror stories on the web about Vista compatibility (or lack of), processing power wasted on DRM "features", and so on.
People were willing to put up with Activation for an OS they saw as fast and stable (again, for a Windows version). Not so willing to do it for Vista.
XP is not that much appealing, but for certain tasks there is no better available. Certain tasks = gaming. The dedicated gamer is going to migrate to Vista just because of DirectX 10.
They keep on being used to activate new products. I don't see Product Activation going away anytime soon.
The servers will keep on activating older versions (I assume), but don't expect much in the way of support when you change your motherboard and XP doesn't activate anymore. Today, a few irate phone calls will get your OS activated. In a couple of years, they can simply say the OS is no longer being supported and force you to upgrade. To Linux preferably.
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My home ISP was vulnerable (201.251.7.2) and so was a friend's. I just changed my DNS entries to OpenDNS and told my friend to do the same; took about two minutes. If you find you're vulnerable and don't want to risk being hit by this exploit, just change your DNS servers to the ones listed at http://www.opendns.org/ until this is patched (208.67.222.222 and 208.67.220.220)
I know what you mean. One of the reasons I switched to an Epson printer is that the installer actually limits itself to installing a driver, not 400MB of software I'll never use. I wish the 400MB figure was an exaggeration.
Ever tried ordering a 100-page printer manual from HP? I ran out of space in my lawn after the third trailer truck arrived...
There are so many ways to make available files to a lot of people that getting rid of Usenet may barely be noticed. Even without P2P networks, a lot of people make warez files available through FileFactory, MegaUpload, RapidShare, and similar sites; while some of them are rather restrictive, I dare say they're easier to access for the regular Joe than Usenet is, and you can both upload and download using a proxy so your IP isn't logged.
So I don't see why lists of child porn content hosted in those services won't be available just as easily and readily as they are on Usenet. Sure, those services take down files every now and then, but I still see lists being available in plenty of places and kept up to date; IRC chatrooms, P2P networks, Yahoo groups... there are plenty of places where such lists can be posted.
Trying to stop information, any kind of information, from being spread on the Internet is a really futile excersice. You'd think they would have figured that by now.
Um, if I say I thought the lack of dialog hurt it, will you get me two tickets too? I wouldn't mind seeing it two more times while it's on the theaters...
Y'know, I haven't seen the movie, but I really find this to be impossible. Indeed, the lack of dialogue is the single biggest reason I'm not going to see the movie until I, at the very least, pirate it to see if it's any good: stories without dialogue don't work.
Wall-E makes you care about a dang cochroach, of all things. It gives a lot of personality to a freak cleaner bot that only says two words in the whole movie. It took the lack of verbal communication and turned it into an strength, to the point that when humans enter the picture and start talking, the movie feels ordinary compared to what it came before.
You want to pirate to see if it's any good? Well go ahead and do it, today! A telesync version is already up in the usual places. But I should warn you: watching it with such a loss of quality will take away from several scenes on the movie. The movie relies on the visual a lot, precisely due tot he lack of dialog; take away the image quality, and you're only hurting your own enjoyment of it.
I have some 5 1/4" floppy disks in a box somewhere. I bet that I can plug a 5 1/4" disk drive to my computer and it will work; it still has the connector for floppies. So there you have a medium that is still compatible with modern computers 32 years after creation.
More, 3 1/2" floppy disks were introduced in 1984 and I still see drives for those regularly, 24 years later. They're still being sold, and new 3 1/2" drives with USB plugs are sold for the everyday user.
With that in mind, I see no reason why we won't be seeing USB ports in 2108. Sure, they'll be USB version 20 ports at 3TB/s transfer rate, but I'm willing to bet they'll recognize a USB 1.0 storage device just as well.
This would be an ideal code to include in consumer motherboards: force PCs to shut themselves down when they receive instructions that would damage them, like, say, the Windows Vista setup program.
One thing that I've wondered is why can't the space shuttles be refit for moon missions?
For the same reason my bicycle can't compete in a NASCAR race.
On that basis my house, next-door's cat and G.W.Bush's arse are also "potentially" interplanetary spacecraft. It's only "technicalities" that prevent them from being so.
Your house and the cat can stay on Earth, I vote we send G.W.Bush's arse on an interplanetary cruise. I hear Pluto is lovely this time of the year.
[quote]The deletion of the Boot.ini file will not cause any data loss. If you format your system to fix the issue then you will lose data. Anyone with the Windows XP CD can boot off of it and repair the OS.[/quote] That is, assuming the system came with a Windows XP CD. Far too many computers are packaged with a "System Recovery" CD that just clears the main partition and writes an image of the OS in it. A lot of users don't even know that it's possible to install Windows without wiping the hard disk (sadly).
...should be filtering IP's of people in those countries and enforcing the copyright lengths... So that people in those countries have to waste 30 seconds looking for a proxy server to access the content anyway?I don't know a single person who has "upgraded" to Office 2007. The new UI is not only ugly, but it screws up the training of lots and lots and lots of people who have been click-trained on Office use ("OMG there's no File menu!!! What do I do?!"). At present, people are staying with Office 2003. when Office 2003 is no longer available, OpenOffice.org might find a whole lot of new users looking for the familiar UI that Office 2007 no longer provides.
People were willing to put up with Activation for an OS they saw as fast and stable (again, for a Windows version). Not so willing to do it for Vista.
They keep on being used to activate new products. I don't see Product Activation going away anytime soon.
The servers will keep on activating older versions (I assume), but don't expect much in the way of support when you change your motherboard and XP doesn't activate anymore. Today, a few irate phone calls will get your OS activated. In a couple of years, they can simply say the OS is no longer being supported and force you to upgrade. To Linux preferably.
It's an error in the report. The end date was January 29, 2008. It's been already modified in Microsoft's page, but still visible on the web archive: http://web.archive.org/web/20070322100238/http://www.microsoft.com/windows/lifecycle/default.mspx