So very, very true.
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"If you unblocked port 135 [an access point Blaster targeted] you would be found by Blaster," Lee says, adding that it would just be a matter of time.
This happened when I installed a (legal) copy of Windows 2000 on my GFs old machine. Boom! Infected with Blaster on the first five minutes on the net, trying to D/L a firewall. Not to speak of the servicepacks... It happened so fast, I thought there was something wrong with the modem drivers, I downloaded via an iBook. I spent a lot of time getting that machine up. But as the family of the GF saw what happened, three persons became Apple converts that evening.
My GF now has an iBook and is more productive on a computer than ever.
Well, I can name two artists from Norway doing reasonbly well before getting a record company involved. Ephemera started their own company, did their own promotion, recording and tour arrangement. Huge success, big in Japan even.
Ugress tried to contact the big record companies without success for a long time. Finally, they said "fuck this" and released the music via Audiogalaxy. Soon a burned CD ended up on the office desk of the Norwegian State Broadcasting company youth music director who gave it the heavies rotation on the Petre A-list. Sony contacted them, and they said piss off, you didn't want us before now we're a hit and can do our own promotion.
I'm sure there are hundres mor of these examples. These two are just for Norway, the last year or so.
1. Take an example picture of of the slot is supposed to look without any skimming devices.
2. Place said photo above the card entry slot, with text saying: If the hole where you put your card look ANYTHING unlike this, don't use the ATM ans call the bank.
3. Prof^H^H^H^HSave bucks otherwise paid out to defrauded customers.
With quotes like this: 'This guy,' he proclaimed, 'is the best at Visual Basic.' I really understand the level of these guys... Show me an 1 k, auto-replicating, ASM-written worm spreading like the lightening through an undocumented hole and I'll be impressed. These are nothing more than wannebe punks.
I use Bluetooth every day. My GF uses it. My IT-clueless friend who works as a manager worships it. So for us in Europe, it isn' anything to declare alive or dead, we're too busy using it.
But it seems that for once, USA was a bit slow to catch on with the whole BT thing. We have been using BT for almost two years now, and most here look upon it as an intergral part of cellular life. Kids in class pass notes with it, adults use it for headsets and syncing, etc. But he is right about the MS mouse. You're welcome to read my experiences with the MS BT Mouse here on Slashdot. If you can find that old comment...
Well, as a journalist in a large newspaper, I recieved a phonecall from the CEO of MS Norway. He's a nice guy and said that the title we had was misleading. I could see his point and we changed it to something more accurate.
Anyhoo, he said that only parts of the code had been released and not the whole tamale. Furthermore, the code is not possible to compile from the source that has been leaked.
Can anyone here confirm / deny that the whole code set for Windows 2000 / NT has been released?
If we allwent out, suing and legally harassing these sam firms at each and every opportunity, we'd get somewhere. I have made it my personal goal to chase the bastards down on each opportuinty I get. Where I live, spam is in effect illegal and I have gotten four (4) spams from Norwegian companies since my main email address went up some six years ago. All of them were reported to the state consumer ombudsman (what you don't have one?) Three of them have resulted in reprimandes and none of them repeated the offence.
Get down from you high horses and start the hand to hand combat!
Funny, I couldn't read that from the page. I did, however, see that the Swiss have strict rules on buying, mental health and a clean rap sheet.
They also have a militia-based army, that keeps their guns at home. This is by no means unique as Norway and Sweden are among countries with the same system. And it causes problems, as the availability of guns increase the risk of misuse of guns. Not a good idea.
I read the article and find myself actually knowing in advance how silicon chips are made. You see, in the 80ies we had childrens books about computers that covered something more than how to start Word and update Winblows.
Thats right, when you move out, why dont you try living WIHTOUT television at all.
As I see my GFs kid sister GLUED to Fox Kids TV, humming along to the commercials illegaly broadcasted into Norway, I made sure that I would never ever have broadcast TV in the house with kids. Ever.
My uncle banned the TV in his house, and the result is very positive. The family talk a lot more than other families, they are engaged in more activites than other and the kids can focus on homework. Sure, they can pop over to a nieghbour to watch TV, but then they also interact more than at home.
But I love films. I couldn't bear to be without my DVD player. So I'll get a tuner-less flat screen TV and a nice DVD player to go with it. Then the entertainment is provided, but with controllable brain shrinkage. And the only program I'll miss is Queer eye for the straight guy. Probably the best program since Futurama.
I can't think of a single intriguing interesting or useful piece of mainstream software that has come out in the commercial sector in the past 4 years.
Buying a laptop with Windows on it is not that bad is it?
Well, you do have to take into account how has to do the support for the laptop. My GF ought an iBook after I insisted on it (Saying she'd have to call someone else than me to maintain it if she bought a Wintel). Now she has dropped the use of her Wintel stationary in favor of the much user-friendly Mac. And I have zero time dedicated to Wintel support.
Let me guess: You're the kind of guy who watch "Queer eye for the straight guy" by accident, and cry out 'Why did they dress him up in girlie clothes?!?', right?
It's a matter of style. iPod has it, while the the Dell DJ looks like it still is a prototype. Friends of mine that reviewed the Dell also says it sucks in UI and you can't even hook it up to another computer without drivers. To me, that's like flushing a 50 USD saving into the crapper.
Re:I don't *want* concise user manuals
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Not to forget; my Ericsson T68i cellphone manual cover perhaps 70% of the menus and functions of the phone. When I get bored and dig around in the menus I discover extremly advanced functions for e.g. web calendar syncing, something the manual does not recognize. Therefore, I cannot use the function, since the help menu on the phone is a joke and the I have no clue to what protocol etc. it uses. Too bad, I could really use that function.
They hire folks to act as middlemen for them. Basically, these people get paid to sit at home, sign for packages from Dell, Amazon, and other companies, and then turn around and reship the packages to Russia, Belorussia, and Ukraine
That's funny. Just the other day I read about a service like this here in Norway, and it didn't strike me as even remotely suspect to do something like this. In Europe it is commonly looked upon as discrimination that american companies only want to ship to USA addresses. This is merely a way around that.
So far the Playstation 2 has made a tour of duty above and beyond any expectations any of us have for it. While the graphics on the xbox seem to be on launch date level, the Playstation 2 always seem to reach into the guts of the machine and pick up some more power.
So far, the best application I have seen for the xbox was a distributed multilevel map zoom system. The inventors bought several xboxes at Elkjop and eventually sold one system til the Pentagon.
...A very nice computer for what an iPod costs. I'll never buy one. It seems like a colossal waste of money to me. $300 for what amounts to a walkman? Geez. I'll stick to my $50 CD/MP3 player. 700MB of MP3s per CD. Stick that on your pricing chart. And I can jog with it too.
That's just flamebait. You het what you pay for. I paid more for my MD player in early 1998 than what the MiPod will cost. Not to mention the extra 200 USD put in a ton of MiniDiscs in addition. And the extra work of converting.
You still have to pay for the CDs. You still have 1/4th (approx) of the storage capacity of the MiPod and have to switch CDs three times in average (Assuming you have a perfect order of the files) while I can listen to the songs I want without switching once. You have to rip and burn. That is so 1999. I just rip.
And I would never jog around with ANYTHING larger than my MD player, and I guess it is more or less half the size of your CD player.
I just guess some people are willing to compromise on everything except for the price.
It's not as much an upgrade ar it is a change of form factor. Besides, the cluster of G5s was spuuosed to be donated away when the real upgrade came anyway. This way, VA uni saves power, money and a slight upgrade in efficency of the cluster. And the G5s can be sold as top-notch computers. Not a bad deal if you ask me.
I've even heard a guy who claimed that the anti-virus companies' employees write the viruses... eather with the companies' knowledge or not. He claimed that they did this to "keep the demand up for AntiVirus software." Now that's scary.
A good friend of mine works in the anti-virus industry. I asked him the same questions abous them making their own viruses to stay alive. His reponse was: "We still get enough business to stay alive from sircam and friends. If we wrote and published our own in addition, we'd be bigger than Microsoft now."
I don't think you can complain about needing a driver disc for a major new Wireless subsystem.
Yes, I can. There were 2 CDs with the mouse. One was XP SP1 "upgrade", one was drivers in several languages not including the one installed on the PC (Norwegian). After "upgrading" to SP1, the Bluetooth system was more or less operational in the machine. After all, it did say "Windows XP SP1 " as a minimum on the pack. It would connect to my BT phone, but as soon as the mouse came in range it wanted drivers. That we tried to install, but we had the incorrect language for the drivers. The BT mouse from Microsoft, on sale in Norway, did not work with the Norwegian XP SP1.(1) Whereas the BT dongle and mouse worked 100% from the get-go in MacOSX.
Go figure. (I didn't bother to. I said buh-bye to Windows and don't miss it. Ever.)
(1) Yes, we searched Microsoft sites high and low for a Norwegian driver but could not find one. There's probably some place you can turn off that moronic "don't use drivers from languages less than 100% identical with the system language" but as I used 2000 up to that point, I didn't know where it was.
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"If you unblocked port 135 [an access point Blaster targeted] you would be found by Blaster," Lee says, adding that it would just be a matter of time.
This happened when I installed a (legal) copy of Windows 2000 on my GFs old machine. Boom! Infected with Blaster on the first five minutes on the net, trying to D/L a firewall. Not to speak of the servicepacks... It happened so fast, I thought there was something wrong with the modem drivers, I downloaded via an iBook. I spent a lot of time getting that machine up. But as the family of the GF saw what happened, three persons became Apple converts that evening.
My GF now has an iBook and is more productive on a computer than ever.
Ugress tried to contact the big record companies without success for a long time. Finally, they said "fuck this" and released the music via Audiogalaxy. Soon a burned CD ended up on the office desk of the Norwegian State Broadcasting company youth music director who gave it the heavies rotation on the Petre A-list. Sony contacted them, and they said piss off, you didn't want us before now we're a hit and can do our own promotion.
I'm sure there are hundres mor of these examples. These two are just for Norway, the last year or so.
1. Take an example picture of of the slot is supposed to look without any skimming devices.
2. Place said photo above the card entry slot, with text saying: If the hole where you put your card look ANYTHING unlike this, don't use the ATM ans call the bank.
3. Prof^H^H^H^HSave bucks otherwise paid out to defrauded customers.
With quotes like this: 'This guy,' he proclaimed, 'is the best at Visual Basic.' I really understand the level of these guys... Show me an 1 k, auto-replicating, ASM-written worm spreading like the lightening through an undocumented hole and I'll be impressed. These are nothing more than wannebe punks.
I use Bluetooth every day. My GF uses it. My IT-clueless friend who works as a manager worships it. So for us in Europe, it isn' anything to declare alive or dead, we're too busy using it.
But it seems that for once, USA was a bit slow to catch on with the whole BT thing. We have been using BT for almost two years now, and most here look upon it as an intergral part of cellular life. Kids in class pass notes with it, adults use it for headsets and syncing, etc. But he is right about the MS mouse. You're welcome to read my experiences with the MS BT Mouse here on Slashdot. If you can find that old comment...
Well, as a journalist in a large newspaper, I recieved a phonecall from the CEO of MS Norway. He's a nice guy and said that the title we had was misleading. I could see his point and we changed it to something more accurate.
Anyhoo, he said that only parts of the code had been released and not the whole tamale. Furthermore, the code is not possible to compile from the source that has been leaked.
Can anyone here confirm / deny that the whole code set for Windows 2000 / NT has been released?
Mail me at pal.unanue@NOSPAM.vg.no
If we allwent out, suing and legally harassing these sam firms at each and every opportunity, we'd get somewhere. I have made it my personal goal to chase the bastards down on each opportuinty I get. Where I live, spam is in effect illegal and I have gotten four (4) spams from Norwegian companies since my main email address went up some six years ago. All of them were reported to the state consumer ombudsman (what you don't have one?) Three of them have resulted in reprimandes and none of them repeated the offence.
Get down from you high horses and start the hand to hand combat!
the Swiss have mandatory gun
Funny, I couldn't read that from the page. I did, however, see that the Swiss have strict rules on buying, mental health and a clean rap sheet.
They also have a militia-based army, that keeps their guns at home. This is by no means unique as Norway and Sweden are among countries with the same system. And it causes problems, as the availability of guns increase the risk of misuse of guns. Not a good idea.
I read the article and find myself actually knowing in advance how silicon chips are made. You see, in the 80ies we had childrens books about computers that covered something more than how to start Word and update Winblows.
From the article:
the station has suddenly become a $100 billion dead end.
It's certainly much better than other ~$100 billion dead ends.
Thats right, when you move out, why dont you try living WIHTOUT television at all.
As I see my GFs kid sister GLUED to Fox Kids TV, humming along to the commercials illegaly broadcasted into Norway, I made sure that I would never ever have broadcast TV in the house with kids. Ever.
My uncle banned the TV in his house, and the result is very positive. The family talk a lot more than other families, they are engaged in more activites than other and the kids can focus on homework. Sure, they can pop over to a nieghbour to watch TV, but then they also interact more than at home.
But I love films. I couldn't bear to be without my DVD player. So I'll get a tuner-less flat screen TV and a nice DVD player to go with it. Then the entertainment is provided, but with controllable brain shrinkage. And the only program I'll miss is Queer eye for the straight guy. Probably the best program since Futurama.
Stop your bitchin and get better tools.
I totally agree!
I can't think of a single intriguing interesting or useful piece of mainstream software that has come out in the commercial sector in the past 4 years.
How about this?
Buying a laptop with Windows on it is not that bad is it?
Well, you do have to take into account how has to do the support for the laptop. My GF ought an iBook after I insisted on it (Saying she'd have to call someone else than me to maintain it if she bought a Wintel). Now she has dropped the use of her Wintel stationary in favor of the much user-friendly Mac. And I have zero time dedicated to Wintel support.
Plus it doesn't look so friggin' girlie.
Let me guess: You're the kind of guy who watch "Queer eye for the straight guy" by accident, and cry out 'Why did they dress him up in girlie clothes?!?', right?
It's a matter of style. iPod has it, while the the Dell DJ looks like it still is a prototype. Friends of mine that reviewed the Dell also says it sucks in UI and you can't even hook it up to another computer without drivers. To me, that's like flushing a 50 USD saving into the crapper.
Not to forget; my Ericsson T68i cellphone manual cover perhaps 70% of the menus and functions of the phone. When I get bored and dig around in the menus I discover extremly advanced functions for e.g. web calendar syncing, something the manual does not recognize. Therefore, I cannot use the function, since the help menu on the phone is a joke and the I have no clue to what protocol etc. it uses. Too bad, I could really use that function.
They hire folks to act as middlemen for them. Basically, these people get paid to sit at home, sign for packages from Dell, Amazon, and other companies, and then turn around and reship the packages to Russia, Belorussia, and Ukraine
That's funny. Just the other day I read about a service like this here in Norway, and it didn't strike me as even remotely suspect to do something like this. In Europe it is commonly looked upon as discrimination that american companies only want to ship to USA addresses. This is merely a way around that.
So far the Playstation 2 has made a tour of duty above and beyond any expectations any of us have for it. While the graphics on the xbox seem to be on launch date level, the Playstation 2 always seem to reach into the guts of the machine and pick up some more power.
So far, the best application I have seen for the xbox was a distributed multilevel map zoom system. The inventors bought several xboxes at Elkjop and eventually sold one system til the Pentagon.
...A very nice computer for what an iPod costs. I'll never buy one. It seems like a colossal waste of money to me. $300 for what amounts to a walkman? Geez. I'll stick to my $50 CD/MP3 player. 700MB of MP3s per CD. Stick that on your pricing chart. And I can jog with it too.
That's just flamebait. You het what you pay for. I paid more for my MD player in early 1998 than what the MiPod will cost. Not to mention the extra 200 USD put in a ton of MiniDiscs in addition. And the extra work of converting.
You still have to pay for the CDs. You still have 1/4th (approx) of the storage capacity of the MiPod and have to switch CDs three times in average (Assuming you have a perfect order of the files) while I can listen to the songs I want without switching once. You have to rip and burn. That is so 1999. I just rip.
And I would never jog around with ANYTHING larger than my MD player, and I guess it is more or less half the size of your CD player.
I just guess some people are willing to compromise on everything except for the price.
It's not as much an upgrade ar it is a change of form factor. Besides, the cluster of G5s was spuuosed to be donated away when the real upgrade came anyway. This way, VA uni saves power, money and a slight upgrade in efficency of the cluster. And the G5s can be sold as top-notch computers. Not a bad deal if you ask me.
I've even heard a guy who claimed that the anti-virus companies' employees write the viruses... eather with the companies' knowledge or not. He claimed that they did this to "keep the demand up for AntiVirus software." Now that's scary.
A good friend of mine works in the anti-virus industry. I asked him the same questions abous them making their own viruses to stay alive. His reponse was: "We still get enough business to stay alive from sircam and friends. If we wrote and published our own in addition, we'd be bigger than Microsoft now."
Q) How do you double the value of a Lada?
A) Fill the gas tank.
Q) What should you do with your Lada at each petrol station?
A) Check the gas and fill up the oil.
Bill Gates won't be a "sir" as he isn't a british subject
Feh... To me, he'll always be just xbill...
So have almost all the CD storage rack manufacturers got it 100% wrong for two decades then?
Yes, but not of ignorance. Just because the horizontal design looks better in many cases.
I don't think you can complain about needing a driver disc for a major new Wireless subsystem.
Yes, I can. There were 2 CDs with the mouse. One was XP SP1 "upgrade", one was drivers in several languages not including the one installed on the PC (Norwegian). After "upgrading" to SP1, the Bluetooth system was more or less operational in the machine. After all, it did say "Windows XP SP1 " as a minimum on the pack. It would connect to my BT phone, but as soon as the mouse came in range it wanted drivers. That we tried to install, but we had the incorrect language for the drivers. The BT mouse from Microsoft, on sale in Norway, did not work with the Norwegian XP SP1.(1)
Whereas the BT dongle and mouse worked 100% from the get-go in MacOSX.
Go figure.
(I didn't bother to. I said buh-bye to Windows and don't miss it. Ever.)
(1) Yes, we searched Microsoft sites high and low for a Norwegian driver but could not find one. There's probably some place you can turn off that moronic "don't use drivers from languages less than 100% identical with the system language" but as I used 2000 up to that point, I didn't know where it was.