How do you know you haven't gotten a virus if you don't have antivirus software?
When I was experimenting with Limited User Accounts on XP, I kept anti-virus and anti-spyware products on my machine and scanned on an occasional basis. The AV program (AVG Free) found nothing after months of use (and didn't detect any live threats whilst browsing). The Anti-Spyware programs would alert me to things like tracking cookies (woooooh, scary !) and Most Recently Used document lists for various apps. I even kept a third-party firewall (Zone Alarm) going to trap anything that tried to 'phone home' without my authorisation. Zip. Nada.
The weakest security link in any current OS is the user. Having a list of signatures for possible trojans, keyloggers, etc. is a good way to flag up potential problems to non-techie users before they click on something dangerous. In that sense, an AV scanner might be worthwhile for Macs.
I'm not bashing Microsoft. If Microsoft could find a way to force all third party software developers to make their programs run from non-admin users, I'm sure they would have made users non-admin by default by now.
That's what they tried with Vista. I've been running my XP box for the past two years without any AV software by making sure all users have Limited Accounts and the Admin account is only ever used for installing software or drivers. If a particular application still requires Admin privs, it simply doesn't get to run on my machine and I might even let the writers know, if I feel it's an important program.
Christ, is there some kind of hidden/. rule that says we're not allowed to have any story about "fixing" Linux without people bringing up that same retarded false dichotomy?
Rule 34 - I get off on retarded false dichotomies, you insensitive clod !
The difference between a SD DVD and a HD-DVD is striking at first, but within 5 minutes of a film starting, I stop caring.
A hugely important point. I still watch VHS movies on my CRT TV and still find them amazingly immersive. So long as you can make out the images and sound without too many distracting artifacts, then all that matters is that you enjoy the movie. That's why BluRay and HDTV haven't become 'must-have' tech. I saw the BluRay remastered version of 2001 at a friend's house a couple of weeks ago and it was truly stunning - you could see every hair on each character's head. At the same time, though, I'm just as happy watching it at home on my old VHS / CRT combo and getting into the story.
Human decisions are removed from strategic defense. Skynet begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, August 29th. In a panic, they try to pull the plug.
Have you listened to the clipping on a modern audio CD?
That's a bit of a red herring. Properly mastered CD tracks which are mixed for listening in a quiet environment sound better than tape or vinyl. 16-bit linear PCM @ 44.1kHz is to all intents and purposes 'perfect'.
Copyright infringement is not even stealing; it's copying. Stealing (legal definition) involves depriving the owner of their property, but copying does not do that; rather, it enriches both parties.
Who modded this 'Insightful' ? Imagine the situation where a band produce their own original songs and they press 3,000 CD's for sale at their gigs and offer paid downloads through their website. How, in any way, shape or form, can someone making a copy of their CD or MP3 files be said to 'enrich' the band ?
If you were a drunk, would want to do be forced into a smoke-filled room crammed in with other folks who are just as pissed for being there as you are, probably fiending for drinks? Also, the "higher power" thing dosen't work for atheists.
These guys don't have meetings and don't require a belief in a higher power: http://www.rational.org/
Consistent night and day >6Mb/sec on an advertised 8Mb connection. Bittorrents running at several 100 KiB/sec in the right circumstances. Never been capped, throttled or shaped despite downloading 10's of GiB/month regularly.
Who's my ISP ? That evil multinational known as Orange !
They just recently blocked The Pirate Bay but I found a way to ACCESS BLOCKED SITES and all is good once again.
Microsoft have been very, very clever with this update. Whereas previously, they were touting a high-def console as a loss-leader, they've now turned everything on its head and made the Live Experience itself the 'killer app'. As you point out, the avatars will pull in the casual crowd and the slickness of accessing the important parts of multi-player online games will make other systems appear very clunky by comparison.
If you want a great upscaling DVD player / BD player, go for the PS3. If you want a great gaming experience, get the Xbox. I never thought I'd find myself saying that !
I get the impression that the recent comers to Ubuntu for example, have an image in their mind of teams of people working on the software and that if you told them it was one bloke doing a bit of coding on something he fancied having a go at every now and again after work, they'd call you a liar.
And rightly so ! Canonical is a big team of people working full-time and getting their wages paid by a very rich and generous man. They're not one bloke tinkering away at home after working a day job to pay his bills.
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Having kids like me use Visual Studio isn't cruelty, it's downright evil.
Visual Studio is a fantastic IDE.
I love C. It's terse and really useful for optimising performance but it's really not a good teaching language.
C - all the power and flexibility of assembly language combined with the readability and maintainability of assembly language.
And I say that as someone who loves C.
How do you know you haven't gotten a virus if you don't have antivirus software?
When I was experimenting with Limited User Accounts on XP, I kept anti-virus and anti-spyware products on my machine and scanned on an occasional basis. The AV program (AVG Free) found nothing after months of use (and didn't detect any live threats whilst browsing). The Anti-Spyware programs would alert me to things like tracking cookies (woooooh, scary !) and Most Recently Used document lists for various apps. I even kept a third-party firewall (Zone Alarm) going to trap anything that tried to 'phone home' without my authorisation. Zip. Nada.
Find out the benefits of LUA's here:
http://blogs.msdn.com/aaron_margosis/pages/TOC.aspx
The weakest security link in any current OS is the user. Having a list of signatures for possible trojans, keyloggers, etc. is a good way to flag up potential problems to non-techie users before they click on something dangerous. In that sense, an AV scanner might be worthwhile for Macs.
I'm not bashing Microsoft. If Microsoft could find a way to force all third party software developers to make their programs run from non-admin users, I'm sure they would have made users non-admin by default by now.
That's what they tried with Vista. I've been running my XP box for the past two years without any AV software by making sure all users have Limited Accounts and the Admin account is only ever used for installing software or drivers. If a particular application still requires Admin privs, it simply doesn't get to run on my machine and I might even let the writers know, if I feel it's an important program.
Lots of good stuff about Limited User Accounts here - http://blogs.msdn.com/aaron_margosis/pages/TOC.aspx
Christ, is there some kind of hidden /. rule that says we're not allowed to have any story about "fixing" Linux without people bringing up that same retarded false dichotomy?
Rule 34 - I get off on retarded false dichotomies, you insensitive clod !
Squirrels are just rats with good PR.
What next, deciding a childs life isn't going to be worth it because they aren't as sexy as Hugh Jackman or hung like Ron Jeremy?
How many children do you know that are hung like Ron Jeremy ?
And how did you find out, eh, EH ?
Most people like only the second, but do all four because they think they want to.
Wait.....most people die because they think they want to ? Does that mean that if I really, really don't want to die I don't have to ?
The difference between a SD DVD and a HD-DVD is striking at first, but within 5 minutes of a film starting, I stop caring.
A hugely important point. I still watch VHS movies on my CRT TV and still find them amazingly immersive. So long as you can make out the images and sound without too many distracting artifacts, then all that matters is that you enjoy the movie. That's why BluRay and HDTV haven't become 'must-have' tech. I saw the BluRay remastered version of 2001 at a friend's house a couple of weeks ago and it was truly stunning - you could see every hair on each character's head. At the same time, though, I'm just as happy watching it at home on my old VHS / CRT combo and getting into the story.
We're talking the difference between 4 stations and 16 stations.
12 stations ?
Rooooooooooxanne, you don't have to put on a redlight.
Human decisions are removed from strategic defense. Skynet begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, August 29th. In a panic, they try to pull the plug.
Skynet fights back.
Cool, I hope to be one of those hungry indie developers. =)
Cool ! I've been waiting years for the console version of Hungry Hungry Hippos.
Have you listened to the clipping on a modern audio CD?
That's a bit of a red herring. Properly mastered CD tracks which are mixed for listening in a quiet environment sound better than tape or vinyl. 16-bit linear PCM @ 44.1kHz is to all intents and purposes 'perfect'.
Copyright infringement is not even stealing; it's copying. Stealing (legal definition) involves depriving the owner of their property, but copying does not do that; rather, it enriches both parties.
Who modded this 'Insightful' ? Imagine the situation where a band produce their own original songs and they press 3,000 CD's for sale at their gigs and offer paid downloads through their website. How, in any way, shape or form, can someone making a copy of their CD or MP3 files be said to 'enrich' the band ?
Yeah, I just saw a monkey hitting a big black flat stone with a bone.
Nobody makes jokes in base 13.
If you were a drunk, would want to do be forced into a smoke-filled room crammed in with other folks who are just as pissed for being there as you are, probably fiending for drinks? Also, the "higher power" thing dosen't work for atheists.
These guys don't have meetings and don't require a belief in a higher power: http://www.rational.org/
Consistent night and day >6Mb/sec on an advertised 8Mb connection. Bittorrents running at several 100 KiB/sec in the right circumstances. Never been capped, throttled or shaped despite downloading 10's of GiB/month regularly. Who's my ISP ? That evil multinational known as Orange ! They just recently blocked The Pirate Bay but I found a way to ACCESS BLOCKED SITES and all is good once again.
I'm not clapping for Tinkerbell ever again.
You mean you gave her the clap previously ?
Methinks thou dost protest too much. I bet you really do miss all that "men goodness".
Microsoft have been very, very clever with this update. Whereas previously, they were touting a high-def console as a loss-leader, they've now turned everything on its head and made the Live Experience itself the 'killer app'. As you point out, the avatars will pull in the casual crowd and the slickness of accessing the important parts of multi-player online games will make other systems appear very clunky by comparison.
If you want a great upscaling DVD player / BD player, go for the PS3. If you want a great gaming experience, get the Xbox. I never thought I'd find myself saying that !
I get the impression that the recent comers to Ubuntu for example, have an image in their mind of teams of people working on the software and that if you told them it was one bloke doing a bit of coding on something he fancied having a go at every now and again after work, they'd call you a liar.
And rightly so ! Canonical is a big team of people working full-time and getting their wages paid by a very rich and generous man. They're not one bloke tinkering away at home after working a day job to pay his bills.
I pull a groin muscle.
That's a new euphemism to me.
And who in their right mind would pay for their services instead of a licensed, "clean" prostitute ?