Part of the problem is the Vistas UAC prompts users (even local admins) far to often. If I'm a local admin on a workstation, there are certain tasks that I would expect to be prompted for (installing software, patching software, deleting file from C:\Program*\, ETC.) but changing the system time? Opening the system management MMC? This simply means that most admins will turn it off, which significantly reduces its functionality;)
I second that. I started out in 94' working as the apple tech at the store in Columbus/Dublin. at least back then the prices on computer equipment and software were somewhat reasonable, about the only thing that had more than a 3% markup were the cables (thank god for the employee 'buy-at-cost' discount!) nothing like getting a new parallel printer cable for 7$ rather than 40$
Something bad happened to the store in the late nineties however. Some bright spark in management decided that they needed to directly compete with microcenter (another chain in the area) and start selling non-tech items. Nothing like giving 20% of your floor space to *office chairs/etc* this further reduced the warehouse space for hardware... the smart sales people started bailing out, followed by the management. At that point I was going college out of town, and when I came back every month or two fewer and fewer people were in the store. followed by the long slow slide to the trashcan.
CompUSA closed a bunch of stores about a year ago, and the New Market Mall store went then. It was a little sad wandering around the final sale items remembering the busy times.
From my experience its not the wash that kills devices, its the dryer... lost a HS850 that went via the washing machine a couple of times, the one time it made it into the dryer it was toast. (same thing for a 1gb memory stick)
One book I picked up a couple of years ago was Robert Polidori's Zones of Exclusion: Pripyat and Chernobyl, it documents though photos how nature is taking back the buildings and towns; and also includes shots from within the control room of the reactor.
A simple forged email with "Hey check out this free software! Just enter the demo code '1234-5678' and your name at the prompt!"
And then a link to the software download site.
At this point the other user will have no clue that the serial number provided is intentionally bogus, and the software will come from a known source.
I'm just not sure this guy will be able to defend that in court (even if the sender of the original message was partly to blame for sending it in the first place.)
...survey results showed that those who owned a Blackberry were, in fact, more likely to work long hours than those who didn't. 19 percent of Blackberry-owning survey respondents reportedly worked more than 50 hours a week, compared to only 11 percent of the general population. Could it be that a higher percentage of blackberry users are either in support roles or in management positions that require more time to be put in? I certainly work more than 50 hours a week, and frankly I'd rather be tethered to my blackberry than a laptop for on-the-go meeting requests, questions, etc.
Re:Crippling DNS? How much does DNS suck?
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Also part of the problem is that if you send out a few million spams with links to www.stratjaktsmadeupdomainname.com most of the virus filters that this will pass thru will do a lookup on the domain, since it does not exist it wont be listed in any bind caches for you local dns server, they then have to query their parent servers (all the way back to the root servers)
say your typical poorly written spam program checks all the links (and for easy math you have 10 links in your spam)
10,000,000 emails x 10 links = 100,000,000 dns lookups... plus a few more for the people that click on the emails... since it will have to try and load the images in the email, etc.
Its a nasty problem, since the first 100,000,000 hits would occure within a short period of time.
In short DNS can handle fat-fingered mistakes, just not on this scale...
The problem I see with this is the same problem that most attempts to classify "pornographic" information fall into (since the obvious use would be filter out the.porn extension for minors) what classifies as porn? You'll have some groups that want to put breast cancer sites on there due to the fact their referencing certain parts of the body, etc, etc.
My local carrier (Cincinnati Bell Wireless) just released a new plan upgrading from 300 anytime and 1000 night and weekend minutes to 1000 anytime and unlimited weekend minutes for the same price... I don't think they would have done this without the impending number portability.
When this code was released there were several people on Slashdot calling for a full code audit of the CVS (since in thoery the person who checked out the tree could have checked in backdoor code) could it be that Valve is doing just such an audit and also changing the keygen and netcode to prevent widespread copying? My god people, this company has dumped *millions* into this games development, "poor gamers"? try "poor programmers", this delay could cost them serious money for missing an Xmas launch date.
FYI: patched RPMs are available via up2date from RedHat, its patching time again;)
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with only 18 leds for 512 million (give of take a few) I would think that there would be very little information you could pull out of looking at the led pattern (granted I can't RTFA, since its already dead....)
How is this flamebait?? Harry Potter is a copyrighted work, and a distribution that does not send money back to the publisher seems to distinctly *not* class as censorship... They also don't provide a definition of "a private website" does this mean a password protected page, or just one that they didn't give the url to anyone? (after all, the publisher found the book on their site, so it can't be *that* private)
Still quite a lot... if its a business network, most of the really "valuable" part of a business is not the server os, but the data on the shares. For example. employee "bob" has access to shares "development" and "r&d", if bob gives you his password, you could (in theory) make off with a companies life blood...
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Part of the problem is the Vistas UAC prompts users (even local admins) far to often. If I'm a local admin on a workstation, there are certain tasks that I would expect to be prompted for (installing software, patching software, deleting file from C:\Program*\, ETC.) but changing the system time? Opening the system management MMC? This simply means that most admins will turn it off, which significantly reduces its functionality ;)
The last think we need is a house that can thow chairs from one room to another. :)
I second that. I started out in 94' working as the apple tech at the store in Columbus/Dublin. at least back then the prices on computer equipment and software were somewhat reasonable, about the only thing that had more than a 3% markup were the cables (thank god for the employee 'buy-at-cost' discount!) nothing like getting a new parallel printer cable for 7$ rather than 40$
Something bad happened to the store in the late nineties however. Some bright spark in management decided that they needed to directly compete with microcenter (another chain in the area) and start selling non-tech items. Nothing like giving 20% of your floor space to *office chairs/etc* this further reduced the warehouse space for hardware... the smart sales people started bailing out, followed by the management. At that point I was going college out of town, and when I came back every month or two fewer and fewer people were in the store. followed by the long slow slide to the trashcan.
CompUSA closed a bunch of stores about a year ago, and the New Market Mall store went then. It was a little sad wandering around the final sale items remembering the busy times.
From my experience its not the wash that kills devices, its the dryer ... lost a HS850 that went via the washing machine a couple of times, the one time it made it into the dryer it was toast. (same thing for a 1gb memory stick)
A) Wrong article :)
B) Have not had daily coffee yet
FYI: Windows creates swap based on the amount of physical memory in the computer (1.5 times memory for min, 3.0 times max)
linky:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308417/
One book I picked up a couple of years ago was Robert Polidori's Zones of Exclusion: Pripyat and Chernobyl, it documents though photos how nature is taking back the buildings and towns; and also includes shots from within the control room of the reactor.
o ri.shtml
http://www.theglobalist.com/photo/Chernobyl/Polid
Maybe, maybe not. Take this example:
Say I have an enemy that I want to incur a loss:
A simple forged email with "Hey check out this free software! Just enter the demo code '1234-5678' and your name at the prompt!"
And then a link to the software download site.
At this point the other user will have no clue that the serial number provided is intentionally bogus, and the software will come from a known source.
I'm just not sure this guy will be able to defend that in court (even if the sender of the original message was partly to blame for sending it in the first place.)
...survey results showed that those who owned a Blackberry were, in fact, more likely to work long hours than those who didn't. 19 percent of Blackberry-owning survey respondents reportedly worked more than 50 hours a week, compared to only 11 percent of the general population. Could it be that a higher percentage of blackberry users are either in support roles or in management positions that require more time to be put in? I certainly work more than 50 hours a week, and frankly I'd rather be tethered to my blackberry than a laptop for on-the-go meeting requests, questions, etc.How about a Total Recall one?
"Don't worry; it's self guiding. Just shove real hard. When it crunches, you're there."
(and yes I know the movie was dealing with the other end of the human anatomy)
can we please start using more than just one word subjects? I know its a such a pain to come up with titles, but come on...
No no you mean like http://www.afrotechmods.com/cheap/arnoldpad/arnold .htm ? Its all about building you own :)
Also part of the problem is that if you send out a few million spams with links to www.stratjaktsmadeupdomainname.com most of the virus filters that this will pass thru will do a lookup on the domain, since it does not exist it wont be listed in any bind caches for you local dns server, they then have to query their parent servers (all the way back to the root servers)
... plus a few more for the people that click on the emails... since it will have to try and load the images in the email, etc.
say your typical poorly written spam program checks all the links (and for easy math you have 10 links in your spam)
10,000,000 emails x 10 links = 100,000,000 dns lookups
Its a nasty problem, since the first 100,000,000 hits would occure within a short period of time.
In short DNS can handle fat-fingered mistakes, just not on this scale...
Here's my favorite site: 127.0.0.1 :)
The problem I see with this is the same problem that most attempts to classify "pornographic" information fall into (since the obvious use would be filter out the .porn extension for minors) what classifies as porn? You'll have some groups that want to put breast cancer sites on there due to the fact their referencing certain parts of the body, etc, etc.
Hey! you still have notepad! :)
iDont know what your talking about.
iForgot a cheaver sig.
My local carrier (Cincinnati Bell Wireless) just released a new plan upgrading from 300 anytime and 1000 night and weekend minutes to 1000 anytime and unlimited weekend minutes for the same price ... I don't think they would have done this without the impending number portability.
When this code was released there were several people on Slashdot calling for a full code audit of the CVS (since in thoery the person who checked out the tree could have checked in backdoor code) could it be that Valve is doing just such an audit and also changing the keygen and netcode to prevent widespread copying? My god people, this company has dumped *millions* into this games development, "poor gamers"? try "poor programmers", this delay could cost them serious money for missing an Xmas launch date.
FYI: patched RPMs are available via up2date from RedHat, its patching time again ;)
with only 18 leds for 512 million (give of take a few) I would think that there would be very little information you could pull out of looking at the led pattern (granted I can't RTFA, since its already dead ....)
Glad I dodged the bullet, I've got every last router patKL()*$OFD_)#@ [LINK DOWN]
How is this flamebait?? Harry Potter is a copyrighted work, and a distribution that does not send money back to the publisher seems to distinctly *not* class as censorship ... They also don't provide a definition of "a private website" does this mean a password protected page, or just one that they didn't give the url to anyone? (after all, the publisher found the book on their site, so it can't be *that* private)
Already been done.
All our phone calls are recorded, it tends to save your ass in court when you can pull the phone logs for a trade....
Still quite a lot... if its a business network, most of the really "valuable" part of a business is not the server os, but the data on the shares. For example. employee "bob" has access to shares "development" and "r&d", if bob gives you his password, you could (in theory) make off with a companies life blood...