I called him to ask what the fsck his executable was running on my machine for and how it got there. He denied it did any spying and said it only worked when you were on the ClickTillUWin site. (Basically a complete load of shit.)
If this sort of crap pisses you off too, drop him a line.
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This is why PGP 6 doesn't work well with Win2k -- it doesn't have the power management features, so it prevents Win2k from going into "suspend/hibernate" mode.
I found that out the hard way, and the buggers made the upgrade to the power-management-friendly version (7.x) a paid upgrade. It did include a bit of new functionality (the ability to create self-decrypting archives), though.
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Email me at slashdot@NOalexburkeSPAM.ca (remove the obvious bits). Slashdot isn't the place for this.:) We're a Canadian company, so if you're American your dollar buys 55% more with us.
you've got a lot of guts plugging a windows NT based host on slashdot.
Hey, I try.:) That's NT 5, by the way.
anyway, the guy said he was tired of his site going down, so he probably wants to move away from winNT.
NT and its successors are generally really stable if you wait a while before patching non-critical things to avoid b0rked patches. Also, it helps to have highly-trained (no, I don't consider having an MCSE to equal being highly trained) admin who knows the OS inside and out and who can nicely plug IIS's holes.
My business partner is our NT admin, and he knows it cold. (I took care of a Linux hosting box for years before I teamed up with him, and I still poke fun at IIS in his presence from time to time.) For example, we haven't been affected by *any* IIS DoS, worm, or hole. Ever.
When I said "hosting by geeks", I didn't mean "hosting by Linux geeks". I meant geeks in an agnostic way.:)
If you're interested in reliable and inexpensive hosting of your site by geeks, check us out. Remember all pricing is in Canadian dollars, so divide by 34095 to get the US dollar equivalent.;)
Telnet in Win95/98/ME doesn't have a shortcut for paste; you have to use Alt-E, P to select it from the Edit menu.
Telnet in Win95/98/ME is the most evil, hacked, bastardized thing I've ever seen. It doesn't count.
QVTTerm uses Alt-V.
Never used it, so I don't know my ass from my elbow when it comes to QVTTerm.
PuTTY uses right-click.
PuTTY is a TTY program at heart, which is why metakeys and so on are passed straight through to the other end. Hence the right-click. (Otherwise you couldn't use Ctrl+V to do anything on the remote end.) Hence the name.
The Command Prompt window in Windows 2000 uses right-click; I think previous MS-DOS Prompt windows required you to select Paste from the Edit submenu of the Application menu (Alt-space, E, P).
See my remark about 9x/ME Telnet.
Most Windows apps support Ctrl-V, but not all - do you know which ones do and which ones don't?
It's a foregone conclusion that pretty much all normal apps (not terminal emulation apps, as all your examples have been) support it.
Most Windows apps support Shift-Insert, but not all - do you know which ones? Many support both, a few support neither.
See above.
In X, middle-click usually pastes, but some apps are trying to work around the retarded select-to-copy, middle-click-to-paste method, so these apps support Ctrl-V while a middle-click does something else.
See my remark about 9x/ME Telnet.
Now, find a Mac application in which the shortcut for Paste is not Command-V.
IIRC, The debug window spawned by pressing the programmer's button doesn't support it.;)
Seriously, though, MacOS has always been really focused on uniformity. It can be a good thing, but it's what keeps most geeks who know what they're doing from taking MacOS seriously. It's simply too limiting for someone who wants to dive right into the OS and customize it to a tee. It simply can't be done beyond a very shallow level.
I spoke with a Siemens engineer a while back about this. The phone tramples on everything from 2410 or so to 2495, IIRC. You can't turn specific hop channels off, either.:( So it's one or the other.
An example of application consistency: what's a keyboard shortcut to paste something you've copied? Now, list three applications on the same platform that don't do it the same way.
Ctrl+V or Shift+Ins -- both work just fine damn near everywhere. The only app I can think of that has strange pasting is QuickBooks, and maybe other Intuit software. That's it, though.
How about using private/public key cryptography? A randomly-generated private/public keypair can be blown into WiFi cards during manufacturing. When a card hops onto a network, it exchanges public keys with all devices on the network, and seamlessly encrypts all data to that device with the appropriate key. Make it built right in and mandatory. (The size of the key and selection of the algorigthm are left as an exercise for the reader.)
I was really quite impressed by your post, until you said for videotape->DVD transfer.
I almost wet myself laughing so hard. Why the fsck do you bother recording what I'm presuming to be VHS (or maybe SVHS, whoopee!) onto DVD? What an incredible waste of time, effort, and money...
I dreaded the upgrade because of what I knew was going to happen: I am now in the process of reloading my favorite applications one by one to see which ones are going to work and which ones are going to require upgrade in order to run under WinXP.
89 mg of this chemical per kilogram of body weight is the LD50 (lethal dose to 50% of rats it was administered to orally).
(The funky bolding is to emphasize where each part fits in the LD specification.)
So, if a rat weighs 500g, there's a 50% chance that feeding it 44.5 mg (a very tiny amount) of this stuff will kill it.
Extrapolating this to an 80 kg (176-pound) human, ingesting only 7.12g of this chemical should be enough for a 50% chance of death (assuming it has the same toxicity to humans as rats).
I spent $1,200 about a year ago buying something, and I paid with Tradenable (then called iEscrow). Essentially, it totally prevents either buyer or seller from screwing the other.
I paid about $30 in fees for the service, and as soon as I okayed the merchandise, Tradenable cut the seller a check by mail and they had it about four days later.
Totally painless for both of us. The only hitch was that since I'm in Canada, I had to fax in CC payment authorization. Big deal -- it was processed within three hours.
For big-ticket transactions (over a few hundred dollars), I strongly recommend them.
FWIW, if you want to add/replace keys on a Honda with an Immobilizer system (I think all Honda models manufactured now include it standard), you need a Vetronix Mastertech (Honda has a branded one called the Honda PGM Tester) with a special software card available only to Honda dealers.
If you're adding or replacing a key, no problem -- you only need the password for the software card. However, any keys not present during reprogramming will no longer start the engine (so a corrupt dealer can't add a key without you noticing).
The "All Keys Lost" condition requires a 4-digit code which is:
Keyed to the vehicle's VIN
Changes every 24 hours (so the Mastertech's clock must be set correctly!)
Available only from Hondacom/Hondanet (Honda's dealer-only info system)
There's also a 5-digit code which cannot be changed (it's a hash of the VIN, since replacing the ECM/PCM doesn't change the code [the VIN is programmed into the replacement at install-time]). This code is entered with the brake pedal, and will override the vehicle's immobilizer function until the vehicle's engine has been off for 10 minutes. It must then be re-entered.
Again, if this interests you in the least, email me.:)
I don't know squat about GM (I'm an import bigot), but Honda's Immobilizer keys aren't nearly that simple.
There's an RFID tag inside the plastic key handle, which is read by the reading ring around the keyhole.
If you have the wrong key (not just a non-Immobilizer key, but any different key) in there (if the code it gets back from the key doesn't match what it's expecting), then the system won't activate the fuel injectors. The fuel pump therefore has nothing to do with it (since it can be easily powered by jumpering it to battery/ground).
Honda's Immobilizer keys have no electrical contacts whatsoever -- it's all done by induction. In fact, if you have more than one Immobilizer key on your keyring, the reader can pick up both, preventing the car from starting. (This only really happens if they're right next to each other on a small keyring, since the reading range is really short.)
If you're interested in this stuff, drop me an email.
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An actual image of a planet-like body orbiting a star? No way!
I called him to ask what the fsck his executable was running on my machine for and how it got there. He denied it did any spying and said it only worked when you were on the ClickTillUWin site. (Basically a complete load of shit.)
If this sort of crap pisses you off too, drop him a line.
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This is why PGP 6 doesn't work well with Win2k -- it doesn't have the power management features, so it prevents Win2k from going into "suspend/hibernate" mode.
I found that out the hard way, and the buggers made the upgrade to the power-management-friendly version (7.x) a paid upgrade. It did include a bit of new functionality (the ability to create self-decrypting archives), though.
Here is a clickable authenticating link.
Email me at slashdot@NOalexburkeSPAM.ca (remove the obvious bits). Slashdot isn't the place for this. :) We're a Canadian company, so if you're American your dollar buys 55% more with us.
you've got a lot of guts plugging a windows NT based host on slashdot.
:) That's NT 5, by the way.
:)
Hey, I try.
anyway, the guy said he was tired of his site going down, so he probably wants to move away from winNT.
NT and its successors are generally really stable if you wait a while before patching non-critical things to avoid b0rked patches. Also, it helps to have highly-trained (no, I don't consider having an MCSE to equal being highly trained) admin who knows the OS inside and out and who can nicely plug IIS's holes.
My business partner is our NT admin, and he knows it cold. (I took care of a Linux hosting box for years before I teamed up with him, and I still poke fun at IIS in his presence from time to time.) For example, we haven't been affected by *any* IIS DoS, worm, or hole. Ever.
When I said "hosting by geeks", I didn't mean "hosting by Linux geeks". I meant geeks in an agnostic way.
If you're interested in reliable and inexpensive hosting of your site by geeks, check us out. Remember all pricing is in Canadian dollars, so divide by 34095 to get the US dollar equivalent. ;)
Telnet in Win95/98/ME doesn't have a shortcut for paste; you have to use Alt-E, P to select it from the Edit menu.
;)
Telnet in Win95/98/ME is the most evil, hacked, bastardized thing I've ever seen. It doesn't count.
QVTTerm uses Alt-V.
Never used it, so I don't know my ass from my elbow when it comes to QVTTerm.
PuTTY uses right-click.
PuTTY is a TTY program at heart, which is why metakeys and so on are passed straight through to the other end. Hence the right-click. (Otherwise you couldn't use Ctrl+V to do anything on the remote end.) Hence the name.
The Command Prompt window in Windows 2000 uses right-click; I think previous MS-DOS Prompt windows required you to select Paste from the Edit submenu of the Application menu (Alt-space, E, P).
See my remark about 9x/ME Telnet.
Most Windows apps support Ctrl-V, but not all - do you know which ones do and which ones don't?
It's a foregone conclusion that pretty much all normal apps (not terminal emulation apps, as all your examples have been) support it.
Most Windows apps support Shift-Insert, but not all - do you know which ones? Many support both, a few support neither.
See above.
In X, middle-click usually pastes, but some apps are trying to work around the retarded select-to-copy, middle-click-to-paste method, so these apps support Ctrl-V while a middle-click does something else.
See my remark about 9x/ME Telnet.
Now, find a Mac application in which the shortcut for Paste is not Command-V.
IIRC, The debug window spawned by pressing the programmer's button doesn't support it.
Seriously, though, MacOS has always been really focused on uniformity. It can be a good thing, but it's what keeps most geeks who know what they're doing from taking MacOS seriously. It's simply too limiting for someone who wants to dive right into the OS and customize it to a tee. It simply can't be done beyond a very shallow level.
I spoke with a Siemens engineer a while back about this. The phone tramples on everything from 2410 or so to 2495, IIRC. You can't turn specific hop channels off, either. :( So it's one or the other.
:)
(Anyone wanna buy a Gigaset?
I don't care if they had to drive a steamroller through a kitten factory to make it.
:)
;)
Where the hell did you get that line? It's priceless!
Consider it stolen.
An example of application consistency: what's a keyboard shortcut to paste something you've copied? Now, list three applications on the same platform that don't do it the same way.
Ctrl+V or Shift+Ins -- both work just fine damn near everywhere. The only app I can think of that has strange pasting is QuickBooks, and maybe other Intuit software. That's it, though.
I sit corrected. Code on. :)
I've been coding since about the age of 4. Yes, 4. And no, i'm not kidding.
You are so full of shit.
How about using private/public key cryptography? A randomly-generated private/public keypair can be blown into WiFi cards during manufacturing. When a card hops onto a network, it exchanges public keys with all devices on the network, and seamlessly encrypts all data to that device with the appropriate key. Make it built right in and mandatory. (The size of the key and selection of the algorigthm are left as an exercise for the reader.)
Dell's support r0x0rz. They FedEx you replacement parts at the drop of a hat, and pay for FedExing the bad part back to them.
I'd buy a ThinkPad if they lost the stupid pointer nubbin in the middle of the keyboard. Give me a touchpad, damnit!
Yes, IBM's keyboards (especially the clicking type) are built like tanks.
I was really quite impressed by your post, until you said for videotape->DVD transfer.
I almost wet myself laughing so hard. Why the fsck do you bother recording what I'm presuming to be VHS (or maybe SVHS, whoopee!) onto DVD? What an incredible waste of time, effort, and money...
Well known film critic and closet otaku, Roger Ebert
AFAIK, otaku is Japanese for geek.
I dreaded the upgrade because of what I knew was going to happen: I am now in the process of reloading my favorite applications one by one to see which ones are going to work and which ones are going to require upgrade in order to run under WinXP.
It sounds like you didn't do your homework...
You know what this means?
ORL-RAT LD50 89 mg kg-1
89 mg of this chemical per kilogram of body weight is the LD50 (lethal dose to 50% of rats it was administered to orally).
(The funky bolding is to emphasize where each part fits in the LD specification.)
So, if a rat weighs 500g, there's a 50% chance that feeding it 44.5 mg (a very tiny amount) of this stuff will kill it.
Extrapolating this to an 80 kg (176-pound) human, ingesting only 7.12g of this chemical should be enough for a 50% chance of death (assuming it has the same toxicity to humans as rats).
All in all, pretty nasty stuff.
I've read other gripes of shit audio quality (64-kbps-MP3 quality) on XM. Is this true, or did they have crap receivers/signal strength?
:)
In other words, does it sound lossy or compressed, or is it truly CD quality?
Thanks!
I spent $1,200 about a year ago buying something, and I paid with Tradenable (then called iEscrow). Essentially, it totally prevents either buyer or seller from screwing the other.
I paid about $30 in fees for the service, and as soon as I okayed the merchandise, Tradenable cut the seller a check by mail and they had it about four days later.
Totally painless for both of us. The only hitch was that since I'm in Canada, I had to fax in CC payment authorization. Big deal -- it was processed within three hours.
For big-ticket transactions (over a few hundred dollars), I strongly recommend them.
You mean 2450MHz. :)
If you're adding or replacing a key, no problem -- you only need the password for the software card. However, any keys not present during reprogramming will no longer start the engine (so a corrupt dealer can't add a key without you noticing).
The "All Keys Lost" condition requires a 4-digit code which is:
There's also a 5-digit code which cannot be changed (it's a hash of the VIN, since replacing the ECM/PCM doesn't change the code [the VIN is programmed into the replacement at install-time]). This code is entered with the brake pedal, and will override the vehicle's immobilizer function until the vehicle's engine has been off for 10 minutes. It must then be re-entered.
Again, if this interests you in the least, email me.
I don't know squat about GM (I'm an import bigot), but Honda's Immobilizer keys aren't nearly that simple.
There's an RFID tag inside the plastic key handle, which is read by the reading ring around the keyhole.
If you have the wrong key (not just a non-Immobilizer key, but any different key) in there (if the code it gets back from the key doesn't match what it's expecting), then the system won't activate the fuel injectors. The fuel pump therefore has nothing to do with it (since it can be easily powered by jumpering it to battery/ground).
Honda's Immobilizer keys have no electrical contacts whatsoever -- it's all done by induction. In fact, if you have more than one Immobilizer key on your keyring, the reader can pick up both, preventing the car from starting. (This only really happens if they're right next to each other on a small keyring, since the reading range is really short.)
If you're interested in this stuff, drop me an email.
what are we gonna do about it?
;)
Simple: Send in Guido to have a discussion with their kneecaps.