I have a few email accounts. One has the name nospamfake. A friend informed me that most spambots will auto delete the letters 'nospam' from an email address and some will also delete 'fake'. Seems to work.
I use this address when ever I need to signup for a list or usenet. Problem is that most software will reject the name even though it is a real account. As far as using it on usenet, it has yet to be spammed. I accidently used my normal email address once now it gets two or three spams per week.
I used to use abuse@imaginet.ab.ca as my email address (old ISP, way back when I was on a 14.4K). After about a month of doing that I got an email from abuse@imaginet.ab.ca telling me that if I did not stop doing that, they would terminate my account.
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What I do when I surf about is to right click on almost every URL and "Open in New Window" or I physically type a URL. I hardly ever encounter a lock-in because I just close the window.
Right now I have 4 browser windows going (Slashdot news page, this page which I am typing this, Anandtech, and HardOCP)
ZoneAlarm does this. It asks you for permission to let a program access the net everytime there is an attempt. You can authorize per session or forever.
No, what I suggest would exactly address what you are talking about.
Inside the core of the CPU there would be a few bytes of data which would say what the processor was. If you cracked the case of the CPU you could not dig the bit of silicon off the die and put in something else. A thought that AMD (I know Intel does) already did this. What is more important is that BIOS manufactures respond to this.
It wouldn't matter if the cartridge was cracked and had new resistors put in because the BIOS would know what the speed was supposed to be.
Years back I wanted to upgrade from my Intel Pentium 120MHz to a K6 200MHz. I bought the CPU and ran it. It was so unstable and hot that I was forced to return it 2 days later and get a Pentium 200 (for 2x the price).
A week later the store I got it from told me that the K6 I had purchased was a remarked K6 166MHz. Which explains the high heat and instability.
I have seen everything from remarked P120s (marked to 133MHz) to K6's, and now apparently Althons.
Some people seem to think that they won't get the wool pulled over their eyes because they will looks for all the little signs. Let me say that some of the remarkers out there can do as good a job as AMD and Intel on the cases and covers. You would swear that the K6 I had was real, but I saw with my own eyes the test software reporting that it was a 166MHz CPU. The only way to foil them is to read the speed from the CPU core.
What I really wish would happen would be for BIOS manufactures and CPU manufactures to get together and make the BIOS display both the real CPU speed and what it is currently running at in large letters during POST. If it was overclocked it could even display a message stating that in a very clear way (text that fills the whole screen saying "Warning: Processor overclocked"
People who overclock wouldn't be hurt because the banner would be there only for 5 or 6 seconds and would remove Intel's excuse so maybe they would stop locking the clock (yeah right.)
Normal people would freak out if they put thier new 750Mhz Duron in thier motherboard and see such a message.
I am sure that some remakers would get around this by hacking the BIOS, but it would stop people from getting remarked CPU upgrades. Also if someone happend to flash thier BIOS in the future after buying a new PC, they would be informed of the trickery then.
As far as software, could H. Oda's CPUID program be used to verify what exactly you have in your system. It tells me I have a Celeron 300a running at 450MHz. Maybe it is different with AMD CPUs.
I personally hate it when I get a piece of software/hardware which only has the manual in PDF format. Means I have to fire up Acrobat and print it myself on a non-postscript printer which looks terrible.
What is worse is when there is a manual which is all of 2 pages that just tells me to read the PDF file.
I don't know about others, but I personally don't enjoy staring at my PC screen reading a manual then playing Dance of the Windows to get what ever it is to work.
I recently upgraded a PC for a friend of mine. His new motherboard came with just a CD which had the manual on it. Oh boy now that is helpful. Don't have a PC to run it on.
My personal choice is that a printed manual should be included along with an electronic version.
The problem is that this movie tried to seem scientific.
I can stand a movie which is full impossiblities if that is what is what is intended (Star Wars, The Mummy, The Matrix, etc.) I could care less if they jump from zero to beyond light with no much more than minor bouncing.
However, when a movie tries to act scientific, the flaws are so obvious and horrific that it drives many people nuts. Stuff like manuvering in space with jets that are above your centre of gravity, memorizing human DNA, or living on Mars under a tent is just unforgivable.
I am on my way to buy the soundtrack to this powerful movie. However, I must first grab some M&MsTM and a bottle of Dr. PepperTM. Then I have to change the oil on my IsuzuTM with PenzoilTM. I sure hope that it comes out on DVD so that I can watch it on my SGI flat panel display.
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I have a few email accounts. One has the name nospamfake. A friend informed me that most spambots will auto delete the letters 'nospam' from an email address and some will also delete 'fake'. Seems to work.
I use this address when ever I need to signup for a list or usenet. Problem is that most software will reject the name even though it is a real account. As far as using it on usenet, it has yet to be spammed. I accidently used my normal email address once now it gets two or three spams per week.
I used to use abuse@imaginet.ab.ca as my email address (old ISP, way back when I was on a 14.4K). After about a month of doing that I got an email from abuse@imaginet.ab.ca telling me that if I did not stop doing that, they would terminate my account.
What I do when I surf about is to right click on almost every URL and "Open in New Window" or I physically type a URL. I hardly ever encounter a lock-in because I just close the window.
Right now I have 4 browser windows going (Slashdot news page, this page which I am typing this, Anandtech, and HardOCP)
Perhaps I just have wierd surfing habits.
ZoneAlarm does this. It asks you for permission to let a program access the net everytime there is an attempt. You can authorize per session or forever.
No, what I suggest would exactly address what you are talking about.
Inside the core of the CPU there would be a few bytes of data which would say what the processor was. If you cracked the case of the CPU you could not dig the bit of silicon off the die and put in something else. A thought that AMD (I know Intel does) already did this. What is more important is that BIOS manufactures respond to this.
It wouldn't matter if the cartridge was cracked and had new resistors put in because the BIOS would know what the speed was supposed to be.
Years back I wanted to upgrade from my Intel Pentium 120MHz to a K6 200MHz. I bought the CPU and ran it. It was so unstable and hot that I was forced to return it 2 days later and get a Pentium 200 (for 2x the price).
A week later the store I got it from told me that the K6 I had purchased was a remarked K6 166MHz. Which explains the high heat and instability.
I have seen everything from remarked P120s (marked to 133MHz) to K6's, and now apparently Althons.
Some people seem to think that they won't get the wool pulled over their eyes because they will looks for all the little signs. Let me say that some of the remarkers out there can do as good a job as AMD and Intel on the cases and covers. You would swear that the K6 I had was real, but I saw with my own eyes the test software reporting that it was a 166MHz CPU. The only way to foil them is to read the speed from the CPU core.
What I really wish would happen would be for BIOS manufactures and CPU manufactures to get together and make the BIOS display both the real CPU speed and what it is currently running at in large letters during POST. If it was overclocked it could even display a message stating that in a very clear way (text that fills the whole screen saying "Warning: Processor overclocked"
People who overclock wouldn't be hurt because the banner would be there only for 5 or 6 seconds and would remove Intel's excuse so maybe they would stop locking the clock (yeah right.)
Normal people would freak out if they put thier new 750Mhz Duron in thier motherboard and see such a message.
I am sure that some remakers would get around this by hacking the BIOS, but it would stop people from getting remarked CPU upgrades. Also if someone happend to flash thier BIOS in the future after buying a new PC, they would be informed of the trickery then.
As far as software, could H. Oda's CPUID program be used to verify what exactly you have in your system. It tells me I have a Celeron 300a running at 450MHz. Maybe it is different with AMD CPUs.
I personally hate it when I get a piece of software/hardware which only has the manual in PDF format. Means I have to fire up Acrobat and print it myself on a non-postscript printer which looks terrible.
What is worse is when there is a manual which is all of 2 pages that just tells me to read the PDF file.
I don't know about others, but I personally don't enjoy staring at my PC screen reading a manual then playing Dance of the Windows to get what ever it is to work.
I recently upgraded a PC for a friend of mine. His new motherboard came with just a CD which had the manual on it. Oh boy now that is helpful. Don't have a PC to run it on.
My personal choice is that a printed manual should be included along with an electronic version.
The problem is that this movie tried to seem scientific.
I can stand a movie which is full impossiblities if that is what is what is intended (Star Wars, The Mummy, The Matrix, etc.) I could care less if they jump from zero to beyond light with no much more than minor bouncing.
However, when a movie tries to act scientific, the flaws are so obvious and horrific that it drives many people nuts. Stuff like manuvering in space with jets that are above your centre of gravity, memorizing human DNA, or living on Mars under a tent is just unforgivable.
I am on my way to buy the soundtrack to this powerful movie. However, I must first grab some M&MsTM and a bottle of Dr. PepperTM. Then I have to change the oil on my IsuzuTM with PenzoilTM. I sure hope that it comes out on DVD so that I can watch it on my SGI flat panel display.