Seems that on a Windows Active Directory network, isn't this something an admin can script to run on all the computers at once? Or am I vastly overestimating their management capabilities.
There are a lot of rootkits that embed in atapi.sys. They must have just based their definition on hashes of known-good versions of atapi.sys and missed several revisions of the file.
I think this was an in-development definition that wasn't meant to be deployed at all. It referenced a virus that didn't exist "shh/updater-b" and Sophos didn't even have a page for that name on their web site when it hit. It flagged anything on the system with "updater" in the path.
Not sure. This issue hit my workplace (state university), and it only affected 2 computers in my office, and I never heard about it from outside the office. I think there were other factors that triggered this.
And compare that with a cheap laptop, trying to display in sRGB on a 6-bit TN panel. Not to mention the pictures on the web site might be no better than 3 or 4 inches at 72dpi.
A photograph isn't a copy, it's a photograph of a painting. There are artistic and lighting choices involved and that makes it a derivative work. This is a good thing. Otherwise, where's the financial incentive for a company to take an out-of-copyright film and create a nice digital master, and even do some cleanup of scratches in the film for DVD/Blu-Ray distribution? It's not just a copy, it's a derivative work and subject to copyright.
I like the advertising being out there for one reason - side effects. The worse doctors don't seem to want to discuss side effects, and it's good to go in somewhat informed and know the right questions to ask.
Especially when Home & Student is not much over $100 in stores for a perpetual license, and new versions only come out every 3 years or so. So this increases the cost almost 3x.
XP doesn't meet the new emissions standards, either. And the airbags are going to be decommissioned soon. XP doesn't have mechanics making patches for them. That's dealer-only.
As a web developer, I have even stopped supporting IE7. There's just too few people who haven't upgraded to IE8. It's an automatic update and more people have upgraded their Internet service than have upgraded their computer. It's actually kind of nice only supporting IE8 and up. IE6 and IE7 had mutually exclusive rendering problems, requiring hacks to get the same layout to work on both.
Why? For good 64-bit support. Funny, you mention Photoshop, but it requires a lot of RAM to keep a multi-megapixel photo in-memory along with layers and undo history. And that's if you only edit one photo at a time. Being able to give Photoshop 2GB+ of its own RAM is very good.
For me, my browsing habits require a constant 1GB or more even in Chrome due to my never closing tabs until I'm done with them forever. It makes me more productive not having to load and reload programs - I keep all of my common tools open at once. At home, you'll see Photoshop, Illustrator, Word, Mail, Chrome, and several more open at once (on a Mac, though).
The problem isn't that Gimp or OpenOffice lack the features that 90% of people use. It's that they have even more than that, and have a terrible and unintuitive UI.
Move to 64-bit, get more than 4GB of RAM, happily emulate Linux alongside Windows. Sounds like a gain to me. I find just browsing the web and having other programs open pushes me close to needing more than 3.5GB (I'll admit I don't close tabs until a task or project is complete - so usually 30 tabs open).
Treat these systems as appliances. Don't browse the web on them. Get separate machines for productivity/Internet. Problem solved. You can get cheap hardware on eBay to keep those computers running for years.
If you can find enough of them, a TRS-80 model 100 is perfect. Just big enough of an LCD screen. You could load custom typing programs written in BASIC via cassette or serial interface (3K of RAM/storage by default, so each lesson might need to be a different program that has to be loaded/unloaded). They have a 4-line LCD, which is just enough to give feedback on your typing or even show them what text to type and show their typing below.
Four AA batteries last about 20 hours, so it wouldn't be too hard to wire them all up together to a small solar setup.
I do think Autism/Aspergers are related. I always think of Autism as introverted to the point of not even knowing how to relate your thoughts to the outside world.
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Seems that on a Windows Active Directory network, isn't this something an admin can script to run on all the computers at once? Or am I vastly overestimating their management capabilities.
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There are a lot of rootkits that embed in atapi.sys. They must have just based their definition on hashes of known-good versions of atapi.sys and missed several revisions of the file.
I think this was an in-development definition that wasn't meant to be deployed at all. It referenced a virus that didn't exist "shh/updater-b" and Sophos didn't even have a page for that name on their web site when it hit. It flagged anything on the system with "updater" in the path.
Not sure. This issue hit my workplace (state university), and it only affected 2 computers in my office, and I never heard about it from outside the office. I think there were other factors that triggered this.
I think it basically detects all files on your system that include "updater" in the path. It also kept doing it over and over again.
Initiating violence? This is would be a civil case, not criminal.
You joke, but even putting QR codes in the holes would be easier than their stupid placeholder scheme.
And compare that with a cheap laptop, trying to display in sRGB on a 6-bit TN panel. Not to mention the pictures on the web site might be no better than 3 or 4 inches at 72dpi.
A photograph isn't a copy, it's a photograph of a painting. There are artistic and lighting choices involved and that makes it a derivative work. This is a good thing. Otherwise, where's the financial incentive for a company to take an out-of-copyright film and create a nice digital master, and even do some cleanup of scratches in the film for DVD/Blu-Ray distribution? It's not just a copy, it's a derivative work and subject to copyright.
I like the advertising being out there for one reason - side effects. The worse doctors don't seem to want to discuss side effects, and it's good to go in somewhat informed and know the right questions to ask.
And it's good for 3 computers.
Especially when Home & Student is not much over $100 in stores for a perpetual license, and new versions only come out every 3 years or so. So this increases the cost almost 3x.
Err..new hardware.
It's not Microsoft that isn't making Windows 98 drivers for old hardware.
XP doesn't meet the new emissions standards, either. And the airbags are going to be decommissioned soon. XP doesn't have mechanics making patches for them. That's dealer-only.
As a web developer, I have even stopped supporting IE7. There's just too few people who haven't upgraded to IE8. It's an automatic update and more people have upgraded their Internet service than have upgraded their computer. It's actually kind of nice only supporting IE8 and up. IE6 and IE7 had mutually exclusive rendering problems, requiring hacks to get the same layout to work on both.
Why? For good 64-bit support. Funny, you mention Photoshop, but it requires a lot of RAM to keep a multi-megapixel photo in-memory along with layers and undo history. And that's if you only edit one photo at a time. Being able to give Photoshop 2GB+ of its own RAM is very good.
For me, my browsing habits require a constant 1GB or more even in Chrome due to my never closing tabs until I'm done with them forever. It makes me more productive not having to load and reload programs - I keep all of my common tools open at once. At home, you'll see Photoshop, Illustrator, Word, Mail, Chrome, and several more open at once (on a Mac, though).
The problem isn't that Gimp or OpenOffice lack the features that 90% of people use. It's that they have even more than that, and have a terrible and unintuitive UI.
Move to 64-bit, get more than 4GB of RAM, happily emulate Linux alongside Windows. Sounds like a gain to me. I find just browsing the web and having other programs open pushes me close to needing more than 3.5GB (I'll admit I don't close tabs until a task or project is complete - so usually 30 tabs open).
Treat these systems as appliances. Don't browse the web on them. Get separate machines for productivity/Internet. Problem solved. You can get cheap hardware on eBay to keep those computers running for years.
You can still get to a decent patch level (not all the way) just by having the offline installers for SP2 and SP3.
Beyond that, you might be interested in this tool:
http://download.wsusoffline.net/
If you can find enough of them, a TRS-80 model 100 is perfect. Just big enough of an LCD screen. You could load custom typing programs written in BASIC via cassette or serial interface (3K of RAM/storage by default, so each lesson might need to be a different program that has to be loaded/unloaded). They have a 4-line LCD, which is just enough to give feedback on your typing or even show them what text to type and show their typing below.
Four AA batteries last about 20 hours, so it wouldn't be too hard to wire them all up together to a small solar setup.
I do think Autism/Aspergers are related. I always think of Autism as introverted to the point of not even knowing how to relate your thoughts to the outside world.
That's for actual FTL travel. A warp drive isn't technically FTL (just effectively) since warps the space around it.
It's got rechargeable batteries.