In 1999-2001 I could have sworn that I saw in the server cages next to ours someone hooking up a Dell laptop to their Dell rackmounts so that it was doing exactly what you are saying.
Had I seen it today, I would have just assumed that they were using a remote client into them if I heard someone say they saw that - but I saw them hook up the video cable and I saw the screen - wasn't a remote session.
I can recall commenting on it and my boss at the time thinking all laptops doing that, me telling him they didn't, and then a bet being placed that they did. I then recall having a steak dinner. (by that time we were on a business trip and arguably we would have had said steak dinner whether I won or not)
Yeah, I asked her if the IT person really looked at it, or just ran some anti-virus programs. She said "yes, the IT person ran two anti-spyware programs against it and updated the anti-virus program (Norton)".
I explained to her that there are multiple viruses that once they infect your system, they can purposely block the anti-virus from catching them and future viruses. She had 3 of such viruses on her machine. When that is the case, you generally need to go looking for them.
I suspect that she got those viruses in the first place because her home connection was so slow prior to their recent upgrade (and also due to spyware on the machine - she also had two trojans that were DDOS bots) that it was not able to update the anti-virus system in a timely fashion, so it was way out of date and didn't know to look for the various new ones it was infected with.
When I say that I told her to look for a better IT person, I didn't really say that and it was largely tongue in cheek.
Even after I fixed all of that and got their systems online, the next day they were complaining to me that after 45 minutes one of the machines drops its connection to the wireless and picks up the neighbor's AirPort (which it won't work on). I told them to phone her IT guy:)
While I didn't read the article (I'm a legit/.'er after all right?), I would have to wonder if the growth hormone released during deep sleep is cut short if you don't sleep long enough.
Growth hormone has many benefits, but one of them of course being the ability to shed bodyfat.
I thought it was going to say that he somehow mated his graphics/CPU chips to the grilling plate of a Foreman and used the heat to grill things. Far cooler IMO.
I was in NYC on business at the end of last week. The owner of our company had me swing by his apartment while I was in town and he wanted me to setup a wireless network there - which I did. As part of the process I was tasked with fixing the 3 XP laptops that were "not working" or "too slow".
Sure enough, I found that they all had spyware - but one had 52 viruses on it.
The best part was that his wife (it was her laptop) said to me "oh that is odd because my IT person from work JUST scanned that two days ago - so I hardly think that I got 52 viruses in two days."
I tried to be polite but essentially told her that she might want to look into getting a better IT person.
One of the viruses that she had kept spawning instances of the media player and I couldn't figure out why... now I see why I guess.
(technically some of the viruses were trojans/worms/spyware, so I guess I should just say "malware")
From the way you word that, I can only assume that you are implying that if it is larger than N, where N is some arbitrary number of people on the list, then it must be spam.
Just for a different view on it, I would venture to say that there are very few spam outfits out there that are only sending mail to 450K people (they are far more interesting in the 1-25M range).
My father died suddenly 5 days before my wedding this year in October. I now have his laptop and have his desktop on the way here in the mail. I had to find my way through onto the laptop, thankfully it was WinXP and I could get in (but it was harder than I would have thought).
Hotmail was actually much easier since the "Forgot your password?" functionality had hints that I knew the answers to and could then get it back. I then remapped his MS passport to a new password that I could easily remember.
The key thing to remember about Hotmail accounts (I am assuming only the free ones) is that if they are inactive for some period of time (I think it is only 28 days), then the account gets killed. So I have to go in periodically and check his e-mail and see a lot of spam. Sometimes there are people that write to him to see how he is doing and I have to write them from a separate account and let them know what has happened, or at this point I am starting to just let it slide.
He was one of those people that never deleted his e-mails, sent or received, since he started his account a few years ago - so there is a lot of good stuff to go through and read.
We still haven't figured out if there is a safety deposit box out there or not.
If you don't have a will, you really should make one that details out every little thing - and passwords too if you have them on important things (and they aren't on Windows systems).
Incidentally we are talking about it here: http://www.etraininglog.com/forums/viewtopi c.php?p id=28688
That is a site I run. Once I get the full answers I will post it to one of my blogs.
The general idea is that the male/female pair are movie stars and that the pairs share the same encryption type (meaning key alphabet). From there you go to the next stage to get the phrase and I have an idea on that, but I can't be positive yet.
I currently have this nearly solved (should have it by tomorrow barring too much real work).
I was hoping that Slashdot would hold off for a day or two to give me time to blurt out the answer(s).
4 sets of the names are proving to be much harder than the others and I am contemplating how much code I should write, or if I should focus on the next stage instead and then try to back fill.
Any flash drive is only good for so many write actions - so I am just assuming that once you put this on the flash drive it doesn't write anything else to it while you are running FireFox from it? What about the cache (disabled maybe?) and what about mail in Thunderbird - that would have to be written out?
I stupidly assumed that those things just lasted until you broke it form physical wear and tear and was editing too many files while still on the device and eventually sent the device to wherever dead flash usb drives go (the trash I guess).
My solution is to pull the data off that I need, put it in a temp dir, work on it there off the temp dir on the computer, and then when done dump it back down onto the flash drive. This reduces the writes to the drive.
From the sounds of it, this is not the action that the article is talking about, so I would be suspicious of increasing the likelihood of killing my usb drive.
Technically there was a brake by wire system in one of the highest end Mercedes either this year or last year (could be both). It was generally reviewed universally to be scarily bad and not analog enough (too much like "no brakes" or "jerky stop" and not enough in between). There was also a complaint of no feedback in the brake mechanism - the difference between a hard stop and a gradual slowdown was essentially just one of pedal travel distance, but not of increased pedal resistance.
Of course due to "technical difficulties" Mercedes has now said that it isn't using them any more.
I never drove one myself, just read a lot about cars.
We have a user here that sent out an e-mail to 30 people that were definitely not supposed to get it. This came about because she opened up a distribution group and was pulling out the three names from that list and adding them to the e-mail message. But in the process of all of this, she also added the group as a whole (double-clicked to open it, even though that adds it to the message, but a button opens it to retrieve names). There was then supposedly a program crash and magically the message went out.
I was of course blamed because as the network admin I somehow failed by being unable to bring back all of those e-mails, even though there are a million things wrong with that train of thought.
Clearly they couldn't imagine that: 1) software crashes don't cause mail to send 2) why was she removing names from a group instead of selectively adding them 3) she didn't use the software correctly on multiple counts 4) if she is clearly not competent enough to handle this and it was such an important e-mail, why was she given the task and not someone higher up?
I run a blog that talks about spam and related issues. When I pointed out Hellacious Riders in the past (they are the ones that are offering the large accounts), some readers of my site apparently tried to sign up and had issues with it and they feel that the site is a scam.
Since I don't believe they had money taken, perhaps it is personal info that is collected? Or perhaps it is just a way to generate traffic coming into their site? Or just a prank?
Being bad with names, I can't recall what the service is called or the URL - but I have received e-mail from a service (free since I haven't paid for it, that is for sure) that I thought was spam, but upon reading it saw that it is actually terrifically useful.
It spiders the web and looks for links that are dead, and then e-mails a contact on that site to say that the links are broken and on what page they can be found.
Come to think of it, I don't even know what address it sends it to.
While this is a reasonable idea on the surface, the reality is that spammers aren't necessarily spamming from their own computers. So if they aren't spamming from them, it doesn't matter if their power is out due to a hurricane.
Florida houses the people that are responsible for the most spam, but that is a legal thing (especially Boca Raton which has the most favorable bankruptcy laws for spammers - they get to keep physical assets such as their Porsches) - it doesn't necessarily mean that they send the spam themselves.
The spam is cheaper to send from elsewhere (cheaper largely in the legal sense of avoiding "local" prosecution) such as servers overseas (Brazil, Korea, and Russia - used to be China until they recently cracked down on it), or from zombied machines.
I have noticed no drop in spam, and I can't logically think why there would be one (although on the news they said there were millions without power - so perhaps that means there are zombied PCs taken offline that aren't spamming).
Not sure about the jeans, but his hair is still relatively long and still blonde. He has been living in the Netherlands although I think is moving (to England I think) soon.
I have his blog in my RSS feed - he occasionally posts up photos of him and various people.
He has been doing radio shows (even wen to Iraq and did some coverage there), has owned a series of tech start ups that apparently did fairly well (at least for him), and he also flies planes/helicopters.
That article is from May of 2003. The Republicans always wave their hands about and talk of changing the this law, but they have yet to do so (other than increasing the allowance, which is a good thing). That said, prior performance means nothing towards future performance.
I certainly never said I was for the war in Iraq, so no need to point that out to me.
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I no longer live in the States.
That means that if I want to vote, then it counts towards the state in which I last lived... in my case Massachusetts. MA has been democrat for presidential elections for a long time, so I'm not exactly thinking my vote is going to mean much. That and I am in fact aware of how the electoral college works, so it really doesn't matter if I add one more vote to MA.
I told this to a friend and they were aghast, after talking with him more, he clearly didn't get the electoral college - even after the last election. Brilliant.
So even if I did think my vote mattered at all, it still goes all over for me.
I don't like Bush. I am embarrassed for America every time I see him on TV since he doesn't speak well and his actions make America look like a bunch of warmongering retards.
But I don't really like Kerry either. Kerry moves that much closer to socialism with increased Nationalistic moves towards our boundaries with jobs and trade, increased taxes, and far too many government spending programs that we just don't need. I might be inclined to see his side of things were I actually living in the country - or in fact ever planning on moving back... but I'm not. So I get to pay his higher taxes, so that the people of America can have whatever services he is claiming they will have - but I get none of it. Perfect.
So then I look at Bush and he will keep increasing the $80K limit before I have to pay US taxes while living overseas, so at least I have that. He is going to be better to the insurance and offshore industry, which is better for me where I currently live and the way I make my money. But then I also have to see the way he is an idiot about science, his religious overtones freak me out on any number of points, and his stance on foreign diplomacy is clearly poor at best.
In the end - I am not registered to vote, and I won't be voting. Both because in the situation I am in, it doesn't matter - but also because even if I did have to make a decision, I am fucked either way. As for the greater good of the country, again it is out of my hands, and I also don't particularly care since I no longer live there.
So this whole election, while interesting to watch - is largely something I observe with a detached ambivalence at best.
I feel kind of bad, but then... not all that bad since my political/religious views are more along the lines of Rand's objectivism then they are D/R or anything else.
I have sites up which put up Amazon's ads and links to specific items (nobody really buys anything from what I have seen). But if I am going to buy something (I tend to buy most things from Amazon when I am online anyway since they have provided me with the least hassle over the years), I just create a link, click it, buy it (I was going to anyway), and then I get money credited for it as well.
I would imagine that one of the more obvious places that would be able to make use of the iTunes affiliate system would be AudioScrobbler.
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In 1999-2001 I could have sworn that I saw in the server cages next to ours someone hooking up a Dell laptop to their Dell rackmounts so that it was doing exactly what you are saying.
Had I seen it today, I would have just assumed that they were using a remote client into them if I heard someone say they saw that - but I saw them hook up the video cable and I saw the screen - wasn't a remote session.
I can recall commenting on it and my boss at the time thinking all laptops doing that, me telling him they didn't, and then a bet being placed that they did.
I then recall having a steak dinner.
(by that time we were on a business trip and arguably we would have had said steak dinner whether I won or not)
Yeah, I asked her if the IT person really looked at it, or just ran some anti-virus programs.
:)
She said "yes, the IT person ran two anti-spyware programs against it and updated the anti-virus program (Norton)".
I explained to her that there are multiple viruses that once they infect your system, they can purposely block the anti-virus from catching them and future viruses.
She had 3 of such viruses on her machine.
When that is the case, you generally need to go looking for them.
I suspect that she got those viruses in the first place because her home connection was so slow prior to their recent upgrade (and also due to spyware on the machine - she also had two trojans that were DDOS bots) that it was not able to update the anti-virus system in a timely fashion, so it was way out of date and didn't know to look for the various new ones it was infected with.
When I say that I told her to look for a better IT person, I didn't really say that and it was largely tongue in cheek.
Even after I fixed all of that and got their systems online, the next day they were complaining to me that after 45 minutes one of the machines drops its connection to the wireless and picks up the neighbor's AirPort (which it won't work on).
I told them to phone her IT guy
While I didn't read the article (I'm a legit /.'er after all right?), I would have to wonder if the growth hormone released during deep sleep is cut short if you don't sleep long enough.
Growth hormone has many benefits, but one of them of course being the ability to shed bodyfat.
I thought it was going to say that he somehow mated his graphics/CPU chips to the grilling plate of a Foreman and used the heat to grill things.
Far cooler IMO.
I was in NYC on business at the end of last week. The owner of our company had me swing by his apartment while I was in town and he wanted me to setup a wireless network there - which I did.
As part of the process I was tasked with fixing the 3 XP laptops that were "not working" or "too slow".
Sure enough, I found that they all had spyware - but one had 52 viruses on it.
The best part was that his wife (it was her laptop) said to me "oh that is odd because my IT person from work JUST scanned that two days ago - so I hardly think that I got 52 viruses in two days."
I tried to be polite but essentially told her that she might want to look into getting a better IT person.
One of the viruses that she had kept spawning instances of the media player and I couldn't figure out why... now I see why I guess.
(technically some of the viruses were trojans/worms/spyware, so I guess I should just say "malware")
From the way you word that, I can only assume that you are implying that if it is larger than N, where N is some arbitrary number of people on the list, then it must be spam.
Just for a different view on it, I would venture to say that there are very few spam outfits out there that are only sending mail to 450K people (they are far more interesting in the 1-25M range).
My father died suddenly 5 days before my wedding this year in October. I now have his laptop and have his desktop on the way here in the mail.
I had to find my way through onto the laptop, thankfully it was WinXP and I could get in (but it was harder than I would have thought).
Hotmail was actually much easier since the "Forgot your password?" functionality had hints that I knew the answers to and could then get it back. I then remapped his MS passport to a new password that I could easily remember.
The key thing to remember about Hotmail accounts (I am assuming only the free ones) is that if they are inactive for some period of time (I think it is only 28 days), then the account gets killed.
So I have to go in periodically and check his e-mail and see a lot of spam.
Sometimes there are people that write to him to see how he is doing and I have to write them from a separate account and let them know what has happened, or at this point I am starting to just let it slide.
He was one of those people that never deleted his e-mails, sent or received, since he started his account a few years ago - so there is a lot of good stuff to go through and read.
We still haven't figured out if there is a safety deposit box out there or not.
If you don't have a will, you really should make one that details out every little thing - and passwords too if you have them on important things (and they aren't on Windows systems).
yup, that's one (they are all actors/actresses)
I have written here how they have done it (it is a site I run):i c.php?p id=28691#28691
http://www.etraininglog.com/forums/viewtop
Incidentally we are talking about it here:i c.php?p id=28688
http://www.etraininglog.com/forums/viewtop
That is a site I run. Once I get the full answers I will post it to one of my blogs.
The general idea is that the male/female pair are movie stars and that the pairs share the same encryption type (meaning key alphabet).
From there you go to the next stage to get the phrase and I have an idea on that, but I can't be positive yet.
I currently have this nearly solved (should have it by tomorrow barring too much real work).
I was hoping that Slashdot would hold off for a day or two to give me time to blurt out the answer(s).
4 sets of the names are proving to be much harder than the others and I am contemplating how much code I should write, or if I should focus on the next stage instead and then try to back fill.
Any flash drive is only good for so many write actions - so I am just assuming that once you put this on the flash drive it doesn't write anything else to it while you are running FireFox from it?
What about the cache (disabled maybe?) and what about mail in Thunderbird - that would have to be written out?
I stupidly assumed that those things just lasted until you broke it form physical wear and tear and was editing too many files while still on the device and eventually sent the device to wherever dead flash usb drives go (the trash I guess).
My solution is to pull the data off that I need, put it in a temp dir, work on it there off the temp dir on the computer, and then when done dump it back down onto the flash drive. This reduces the writes to the drive.
From the sounds of it, this is not the action that the article is talking about, so I would be suspicious of increasing the likelihood of killing my usb drive.
... but then leave surprised at the smoking hot chicks in the photos.
Little Snitch appears to be a $25 app these days.
Technically there was a brake by wire system in one of the highest end Mercedes either this year or last year (could be both). It was generally reviewed universally to be scarily bad and not analog enough (too much like "no brakes" or "jerky stop" and not enough in between).
There was also a complaint of no feedback in the brake mechanism - the difference between a hard stop and a gradual slowdown was essentially just one of pedal travel distance, but not of increased pedal resistance.
Of course due to "technical difficulties" Mercedes has now said that it isn't using them any more.
I never drove one myself, just read a lot about cars.
We have a user here that sent out an e-mail to 30 people that were definitely not supposed to get it. This came about because she opened up a distribution group and was pulling out the three names from that list and adding them to the e-mail message. But in the process of all of this, she also added the group as a whole (double-clicked to open it, even though that adds it to the message, but a button opens it to retrieve names).
There was then supposedly a program crash and magically the message went out.
I was of course blamed because as the network admin I somehow failed by being unable to bring back all of those e-mails, even though there are a million things wrong with that train of thought.
Clearly they couldn't imagine that:
1) software crashes don't cause mail to send
2) why was she removing names from a group instead of selectively adding them
3) she didn't use the software correctly on multiple counts
4) if she is clearly not competent enough to handle this and it was such an important e-mail, why was she given the task and not someone higher up?
In the end, yet one more reason I hate my job.
I run a blog that talks about spam and related issues. When I pointed out Hellacious Riders in the past (they are the ones that are offering the large accounts), some readers of my site apparently tried to sign up and had issues with it and they feel that the site is a scam.
Since I don't believe they had money taken, perhaps it is personal info that is collected? Or perhaps it is just a way to generate traffic coming into their site? Or just a prank?
I don't know, I haven't tried to sign up myself.
Being bad with names, I can't recall what the service is called or the URL - but I have received e-mail from a service (free since I haven't paid for it, that is for sure) that I thought was spam, but upon reading it saw that it is actually terrifically useful.
It spiders the web and looks for links that are dead, and then e-mails a contact on that site to say that the links are broken and on what page they can be found.
Come to think of it, I don't even know what address it sends it to.
Basically it is all magic to me, but I like it.
I wrote about this over on my spam blog today.
While this is a reasonable idea on the surface, the reality is that spammers aren't necessarily spamming from their own computers. So if they aren't spamming from them, it doesn't matter if their power is out due to a hurricane.
Florida houses the people that are responsible for the most spam, but that is a legal thing (especially Boca Raton which has the most favorable bankruptcy laws for spammers - they get to keep physical assets such as their Porsches) - it doesn't necessarily mean that they send the spam themselves.
The spam is cheaper to send from elsewhere (cheaper largely in the legal sense of avoiding "local" prosecution) such as servers overseas (Brazil, Korea, and Russia - used to be China until they recently cracked down on it), or from zombied machines.
I have noticed no drop in spam, and I can't logically think why there would be one (although on the news they said there were millions without power - so perhaps that means there are zombied PCs taken offline that aren't spamming).
Not sure about the jeans, but his hair is still relatively long and still blonde. He has been living in the Netherlands although I think is moving (to England I think) soon.
I have his blog in my RSS feed - he occasionally posts up photos of him and various people.
He has been doing radio shows (even wen to Iraq and did some coverage there), has owned a series of tech start ups that apparently did fairly well (at least for him), and he also flies planes/helicopters.
That article is from May of 2003. The Republicans always wave their hands about and talk of changing the this law, but they have yet to do so (other than increasing the allowance, which is a good thing).
That said, prior performance means nothing towards future performance.
I certainly never said I was for the war in Iraq, so no need to point that out to me.
I no longer live in the States.
That means that if I want to vote, then it counts towards the state in which I last lived... in my case Massachusetts. MA has been democrat for presidential elections for a long time, so I'm not exactly thinking my vote is going to mean much.
That and I am in fact aware of how the electoral college works, so it really doesn't matter if I add one more vote to MA.
I told this to a friend and they were aghast, after talking with him more, he clearly didn't get the electoral college - even after the last election.
Brilliant.
So even if I did think my vote mattered at all, it still goes all over for me.
I don't like Bush. I am embarrassed for America every time I see him on TV since he doesn't speak well and his actions make America look like a bunch of warmongering retards.
But I don't really like Kerry either. Kerry moves that much closer to socialism with increased Nationalistic moves towards our boundaries with jobs and trade, increased taxes, and far too many government spending programs that we just don't need.
I might be inclined to see his side of things were I actually living in the country - or in fact ever planning on moving back... but I'm not.
So I get to pay his higher taxes, so that the people of America can have whatever services he is claiming they will have - but I get none of it.
Perfect.
So then I look at Bush and he will keep increasing the $80K limit before I have to pay US taxes while living overseas, so at least I have that. He is going to be better to the insurance and offshore industry, which is better for me where I currently live and the way I make my money.
But then I also have to see the way he is an idiot about science, his religious overtones freak me out on any number of points, and his stance on foreign diplomacy is clearly poor at best.
In the end - I am not registered to vote, and I won't be voting. Both because in the situation I am in, it doesn't matter - but also because even if I did have to make a decision, I am fucked either way.
As for the greater good of the country, again it is out of my hands, and I also don't particularly care since I no longer live there.
So this whole election, while interesting to watch - is largely something I observe with a detached ambivalence at best.
I feel kind of bad, but then... not all that bad since my political/religious views are more along the lines of Rand's objectivism then they are D/R or anything else.
That is how I use Amazon's affiliate system.
I have sites up which put up Amazon's ads and links to specific items (nobody really buys anything from what I have seen). But if I am going to buy something (I tend to buy most things from Amazon when I am online anyway since they have provided me with the least hassle over the years), I just create a link, click it, buy it (I was going to anyway), and then I get money credited for it as well.
I would imagine that one of the more obvious places that would be able to make use of the iTunes affiliate system would be AudioScrobbler.
This is old news.