That may not be enough.... windows is really swiss-cheese. Have you run adaware recently?
I run XP SP2, XP firewall, also behind Linux firewall. Running AVG, Spybot and MS Antispyware. Run Firefox, and *never* click on anything dodgy.
Last week my machine managed to catch a piece of scumware from somewhere. Both Spybot and Antispyware completely missed the initial infection (in fact it was only caught when Antispyware ran its overnight scan). The only websites browsed that day were BBC, Slashdot, Google and Technocrat (I was out for most of the day).
The only thing I can guess is some rogue javascript downloaded an executable in the background. Where the hell that came from I've no idea though.. possibly a dodgy advert (I've since installed adblock to avoid a repeat of the situation).
Indymedia realy isn't that popular that downing it around the G8 would make a difference.
Almost everyone I know is going and we're hardly a bunch of left wing hippies (2 of them are Lib.Dem concillors!). TBH all the hippies will be a Live8 at the rock concert not up in scotland.
The UK government can in fact ban publication and even speeck on the grounds of national security.
It's not popular, and *never* works... the times I can remember it happening (banning Gerry Adams from speaking... the BBC just dubbed it & the ban had zero effect, and there have been a couple of books - everyone just imported them from Europe instead).
btw. the US has a banned books list too, as I found when googling writing this post... surprised me.
In theory it could change but probably only by abolishing the monarchy (we're still subjects, not citizens, although that's buried under so much history few know it any more).
Unfortunately having a monarchy with power has too many upsides.. they control the army for example (a soldier pledges allegience to the queen, not the government) so if a PM went nuts and started telling the army to blow up france they'd pretty much ignore him unless he had permission from the queen (who has nothing to lose, being unelected, and so is better at making the 'right' decision rather than the 'popular' one).
Who is going to pay $1 to read about how your boyfriend dumped you last week and you're still crying in bed
A *lot* of people... and a lot more than $1 too.
Soaps, Reality TV.... Big Brother is the ultimate proof of this - a dozen totally uninteresting people sitting in a room for 2 weeks - gets top rating and is simulcast on 3 channels simultaneously.
I think that there's a wildcard 'match everything' phrase that google have allowed some advertisers to use. I've typed in some really wacky stuff and got the exact same pages back every time... each time the title of the page is something like 'information about (my search phrase)' and the content is spam.. the URL is something like http://spammer.com/(my search phrase).html
The website side of that is easy... autogenerate the page based on the URL. The google side is something I've been trying to work out with no success yet.
(another thing I need an autosubmit plugin for slashot... it usually takes 20-30 submits before things 'take' these days).
I think that there's a wildcard 'match everything' phrase that google have allowed some advertisers to use. I've typed in some really wacky stuff and got the exact same pages back every time... each time the title of the page is something like 'information about ' and the content is spam.. the URL is something like http://spammer.com/.html
The website side of that is easy... autogenerate the page based on the URL. The google side is something I've been trying to work out with no success yet.
The last place I was at abandoned java (at considerable cost.. 6 month rewrite) because Sun couldn't release a JRE that didn't have major bugs in it.. there seemed to be no quality control - things would be fixed in one release and break again in the next one (the proxy server bug was supposed to be fixed in JDK 1.3 but *still* wasn't fixed in JDK 1.4, except for one specific version where they actually fixed it - then broke it again in the next release.. We had to stick with JDK 1.2 long after it was obsolete because corporate customers often use proxies).
Also JDK 1.2 wasn't compatible with JDK 1.3 which wasn't compatible with JDK 1.4.. if a customer had a java app on their system that was a different java version, they couldn't run our software - so much for 'run anywhere'!.
Even system software will install on Unix just as a normal user.
You might have to tweak LD_LIBRARY_PATH for the more complex stuff but it's really not that hard.
(I find OSX a bit frustrating... their directory as app paradigm only extends as far as the finder, so if you're writing a command line app you can't make a self contained package for it. So nearly perfect, yet so far...).
I wrote a runas that didn't need the password (I use similar tech on a project I'm on that needs to validate users with a different password to their windows one).
OTOH I wrote it so that it checked you were an administrator first before doing its stuff... I did for fun build a version that let anyone do it, but logging in as guest and doing 'su administrator cmd.exe' was enough to tell me that it was an unacceptable risk:)
The blackberry is (relatively) cheap (although more expensive than a full featured smartphone so I can't see the attraction myself.. The SPV has an Exchange connector, runs WinCE apps and is cheaper than a blackberry by a long way).
The expensive bit is the dedicated server needed to run it. They don't use IMAP or POP or even MS Exchange protocols.. they use some kind of proprietary mail protocol and that has to be licensed from the company that makes them. I'm not sure how much but when it was being costed (and rejected) I heard figures of $20,000/year thrown about.
I'd heard of it before.. some US type managers came over here and demanded it was issued to them. It needs a dedicated server (not compatible with IMAP.. ffs!) and was vetoed on financial grounds.
I saw one up close once.. damn fugly with a tiny qwerty keyboard & mmonochrome display.
I'd rather we tried this out on a comet that definately *isn't* going to hit us, than on one that is. If it doesn't work we at least get the chance of another go.
Slashdot Mirror
That may not be enough.... windows is really swiss-cheese. Have you run adaware recently?
I run XP SP2, XP firewall, also behind Linux firewall. Running AVG, Spybot and MS Antispyware. Run Firefox, and *never* click on anything dodgy.
Last week my machine managed to catch a piece of scumware from somewhere. Both Spybot and Antispyware completely missed the initial infection (in fact it was only caught when Antispyware ran its overnight scan). The only websites browsed that day were BBC, Slashdot, Google and Technocrat (I was out for most of the day).
The only thing I can guess is some rogue javascript downloaded an executable in the background. Where the hell that came from I've no idea though.. possibly a dodgy advert (I've since installed adblock to avoid a repeat of the situation).
I had an Amiga with signatures like that (different ones presumably). It was an original A1000...
Indymedia realy isn't that popular that downing it around the G8 would make a difference.
Almost everyone I know is going and we're hardly a bunch of left wing hippies (2 of them are Lib.Dem concillors!). TBH all the hippies will be a Live8 at the rock concert not up in scotland.
Nothing in reuters, or ITN either (or CNN for that matter).
Thre is:
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=24242
That's it so far.
The UK government can in fact ban publication and even speeck on the grounds of national security.
It's not popular, and *never* works... the times I can remember it happening (banning Gerry Adams from speaking... the BBC just dubbed it & the ban had zero effect, and there have been a couple of books - everyone just imported them from Europe instead).
btw. the US has a banned books list too, as I found when googling writing this post... surprised me.
In theory it could change but probably only by abolishing the monarchy (we're still subjects, not citizens, although that's buried under so much history few know it any more).
Unfortunately having a monarchy with power has too many upsides.. they control the army for example (a soldier pledges allegience to the queen, not the government) so if a PM went nuts and started telling the army to blow up france they'd pretty much ignore him unless he had permission from the queen (who has nothing to lose, being unelected, and so is better at making the 'right' decision rather than the 'popular' one).
Who is going to pay $1 to read about how your boyfriend dumped you last week and you're still crying in bed
A *lot* of people... and a lot more than $1 too.
Soaps, Reality TV.... Big Brother is the ultimate proof of this - a dozen totally uninteresting people sitting in a room for 2 weeks - gets top rating and is simulcast on 3 channels simultaneously.
The link defeats the Firefox pop-up blocker...
That's not exactly hard....
Damn slashdot.
I think that there's a wildcard 'match everything' phrase that google have allowed some advertisers to use. I've typed in some really wacky stuff and got the exact same pages back every time... each time the title of the page is something like 'information about (my search phrase)' and the content is spam.. the URL is something like http://spammer.com/(my search phrase).html
The website side of that is easy... autogenerate the page based on the URL. The google side is something I've been trying to work out with no success yet.
(another thing I need an autosubmit plugin for slashot... it usually takes 20-30 submits before things 'take' these days).
I think that there's a wildcard 'match everything' phrase that google have allowed some advertisers to use. I've typed in some really wacky stuff and got the exact same pages back every time... each time the title of the page is something like 'information about ' and the content is spam.. the URL is something like http://spammer.com/.html
The website side of that is easy... autogenerate the page based on the URL. The google side is something I've been trying to work out with no success yet.
.net is dog slow. Unless they've improved the performance a *lot* for 2.0 even Java could leave it in the dust.
Comparing that to a native C implemenation is just stupid.
The last place I was at abandoned java (at considerable cost.. 6 month rewrite) because Sun couldn't release a JRE that didn't have major bugs in it.. there seemed to be no quality control - things would be fixed in one release and break again in the next one (the proxy server bug was supposed to be fixed in JDK 1.3 but *still* wasn't fixed in JDK 1.4, except for one specific version where they actually fixed it - then broke it again in the next release.. We had to stick with JDK 1.2 long after it was obsolete because corporate customers often use proxies).
Also JDK 1.2 wasn't compatible with JDK 1.3 which wasn't compatible with JDK 1.4.. if a customer had a java app on their system that was a different java version, they couldn't run our software - so much for 'run anywhere'!.
I was wondering about that... Wikis are *very* CPU intensive and a busy one would bury a dual athlon.
Even system software will install on Unix just as a normal user.
You might have to tweak LD_LIBRARY_PATH for the more complex stuff but it's really not that hard.
(I find OSX a bit frustrating... their directory as app paradigm only extends as far as the finder, so if you're writing a command line app you can't make a self contained package for it. So nearly perfect, yet so far...).
They are.. in fact Windows does provide a full environment for user-only installs.
Nobody ever uses them though.
That option doesn't exist in XP Home.
To set permissions in XP Home you must boot into safe mode.
The whole installation model is broken...
You can't install anything without being an administrator, however most programs install to the current user not the global user settings...
So, user installs program as admin, logs back into user - program gone!!!
That's damned stupid..
That's XP home...
XP Pro and 2003 have proper file permissions. XP Home hides them, so if something doesn't work the user has no way of fixing it.
Booting into Safe Mode is the only way of changing permissions in XP Home.. and it is a nightmare.
I wrote a runas that didn't need the password (I use similar tech on a project I'm on that needs to validate users with a different password to their windows one).
:)
OTOH I wrote it so that it checked you were an administrator first before doing its stuff... I did for fun build a version that let anyone do it, but logging in as guest and doing 'su administrator cmd.exe' was enough to tell me that it was an unacceptable risk
The blackberry is (relatively) cheap (although more expensive than a full featured smartphone so I can't see the attraction myself.. The SPV has an Exchange connector, runs WinCE apps and is cheaper than a blackberry by a long way).
The expensive bit is the dedicated server needed to run it. They don't use IMAP or POP or even MS Exchange protocols.. they use some kind of proprietary mail protocol and that has to be licensed from the company that makes them. I'm not sure how much but when it was being costed (and rejected) I heard figures of $20,000/year thrown about.
I'd heard of it before.. some US type managers came over here and demanded it was issued to them. It needs a dedicated server (not compatible with IMAP.. ffs!) and was vetoed on financial grounds.
I saw one up close once.. damn fugly with a tiny qwerty keyboard & mmonochrome display.
I'd rather we tried this out on a comet that definately *isn't* going to hit us, than on one that is. If it doesn't work we at least get the chance of another go.
I use blackholes.us to score based on country. Anything from China, Taiwan or Russia gets an instant +3 (I have a 5 threshold).
It's helped a lot in the borderline cases..
Based on my stats I also give anything from verizon a +2.
If Jesus and his crew didnt have problems with doing this kind of petty theft then I cant find any moral fault in it either.
Woah.. way to misread a passage dude.
The unlawful act was eating corn *on a sabbath day*. The issue was not theft at all.
*Choke* Invented by Microsoft?
Why does everyone think everything was invented by microsoft these days?
We were using piracy to describe copying back when I was at school, and that predates Windows.