A lot of slashdotters who have given up the childish practice of karma-whoring via reposting the slashdotted article will post such mirrors as an AC in order to show that they truly want to BE informative, not just modded as such.
I am more likely to give a +1 Informative to an AC-posted article mirror than a member-posted article mirror, simply because I feel that people shouldn't build karma by just copying and pasting articles. Original Insights and Information are much more valuable in the long run.
Just as BartPE is not a full XP installation (due to both size and technical limitations), this MS Office plugin doesn't create a full Office suite, but rather a set of MS Office viewers.
It requires system files from a (licensed) Office 97 SR-2 CD, but uses the Microsoft 2003 Office Converter Pack to enable viewing of Word 2003, Excel 2003 and Powerpoint 2003 files.
So you can open these files on a disabled machine for rescue purposes (which is the primary use of BartPE, at least for me) but you can't create new documents.
I thought the Jon Stewart Show was hilarious, and I was sorry when it was cancelled. Even in '93 his wit was much sharper and fresher than his contemporaries.
The Windows Boot CD is based on Bart Lagerweij's PE Builder. Go to the BartPE website to learn how to brew your own customized Windows Boot CD.
There are scads of folks out there busily building their own add-ons and plugins for the BartPE environment which you can just download and include in your own installation- everything from Java Runtime to Citrix ICA client to Trillian. And literally a hundred more.
I've found it an indispensible Windows recovery tool. I can boot off the CD and run Adaware, Spybot and McAfee scans on the system hard drive, removing all the IE trojan nonsense before it starts up and get resident in memory. I can connect to network shares and transfer data from machines that won't boot.
You don't even have to boot from the CD- it will autorun in an active Windows XP session and give you the same NU2 menu. So it can be used to run applications locally that you don't want to install on the client's machine.
You have just appeared as the asshole of the day (09 October 2004) on Slashdot, the largest geek news website. Expect many many more e-mails and possibly telephone calls and faxes from other geeks like me!
True, use of such software as Seti@Home on production line equiptment isn't a good idea. SETI does not cause system damage, but may slow things down. A warning, a pay cut, a write-up, etc. would have been justifiable punishment, but firing Mr. Smith and then saying:
"I understand his desire to search for intelligent life in outer space, because obviously he doesn't find it in the mirror in the morning," Hayes said. "I think that people can be comfortable that security has beamed this man out of our building."
is absolutely uncalled for and far beyond the pale. I think you even stand a pretty good chance at being Dick of the Week!
Your personal info (such as address, this e-mail address, fax, etc.) is in the comment tree of the article.
Here is the link: 9&tid=126&tid=1>
Good Luck!
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And it got me thinking- we need an Asshole of the Day / Dick of the Week system on Slashdot. Like a persistant poll or something.
"America, I've seen you at the Olympics. You stand there, hand on the hearts... You and the Roman Empire are the only people who've ever done that, so be very careful! 'Cause you're the new Roman Empire, you realize that? There's no one else going!"
Hi. No new posts until further notice.
If you know things: ifsoyl at gmail.com.
posted by jordan | 1:57 PM
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Thanks for ruining it for everyone, Slashdot:)
Actually, I figured with tidal wave of publicity a slashdotting gets you, plus the timbre of the legal-minded comments posted here, the site was doomed.
he wanted to live, not get killed from a "lucky" shot, from some guy hiding under a tarp on a fishing boat.
Yeah, and I guess the fishermen he is shooting and killing on the open water somehow don't care about living or dying? I mean, obviously, right? Otherwise they wouldn't be out there, trying to catch food for the day! They must not have learned your "lesson," that "when the shooting starts, get your ass inside!"
Do you hear what you are saying, man? Killing Japanese fishermen was justifiable because your Dad "wanted to live," and thought that out of all the innocents he killed, there might have been a few people with guns under tarps? Bullshit! He was a terrorist!
By definition, terrorism is "violence against civilians or similar noncombatants, especially in order to achieve political or similarly ideological aims, or to intimidate or coerce a civilian population."
You think that 11690 civilians have been killed in Iraq so far because they've been hit by ricocheting bullets in street battles? No, it's pilots like your Dad who are "just following orders" (or not) and intentionally targeting civilians or similar noncombatants. My United States of America is the biggest terrorist the world has yet known.
The potential for unethical practices surrounding replacement body parts is even much larger than this. Ever read Michael Marshall Smith's "Spares?"
In this novel, the wealthy regularly clone their children and have the clone live in a "clone farm." Whenever the "real" child needs a new liver (because they're an alcoholic) or a new arm (because they got in a bar fight and damaged a muscle) the doctors just rip the part out of or off of the "spare" child (sans anesthesia) and attach it to or in the "real" child.
The "spares" are completely dehumanized. Though biologically they are identical to the "real" child, socially they are nothing more than warm storage units for their "real" sibling's backup parts.
The ethics surrounding this medical future are mind-boggling. I think the abortion debators have a head start when it comes to thinking about these issues. What level of value should we properly assign to what forms and stages of "life?"
Automatically downloads all current patches for WinXP, Win2000 or 2003
Server installations, slipstreams them and creates an ISO image. Fully
configurable, including unattended install scripts through winnt.sif and
first-boot application installs and regtweaks through cmdlines.txt. You
can pick and choose which hotfixes and add-ons you want to apply.
Although the "current hotfix" list on the website doesn't yet reflect it,
WindowsXP-KB835935-SP2-ENU.exe is now the default service pack for the
hotfix autodownloader.
"I don't have to show you anything, papers or not. Period. Only a judge can say otherwise, or a law enforcement official with probable cause that a crime has been committed (and even then I am not required to identify myself....I would be booked as "John Doe")."
Actually, the US Supreme Court just decided otherwise in the case of HIIBEL V. SIXTH JUDICIAL DIST. COURT OF NEV.,HUMBOLDT CTY. Dudley Hiibel was approached by a cop and told to identify himself to help the cop "investigate an investigation." He was given no indication of probable cause (the cop was responding to a passerby who thought there was a "domestic disturbance" in progress, though in reality Dudley was arguing with his daughter on the side of the road.) His arrest for failing to identify himself was upheld. HE HAD COMMITTED NO OTHER CRIME! All other charges were dropped immediately. His "crime" was being John Doe, for which he was arrested, convicted and fined.
See Hiibel Revisited at Slate for more analysis.
I find it hard to believe they are talking about life support machinery. No specific piece of equipment is ever mentioned, just the generic "medical devices." I'm thinking they are speaking more of hospital informatics systems, like Stentor and EpicCare. When a doctor can't read a patient's medical chart because the workstation is PWNED, or can't send an X-ray up to surgery because the router's been hijacked, that is definitely a problem; but it is somewhat less of a problem than your ventilator quiting because of a BSOD.
Sounds like a tech-challenged reporter reporting wide-eyed about crashing "medical devices" which she doesn't really understand.
At first I thought this had to be an article about sting operations and breaking up international porn rings. I mean, is that the perfect vice-squad pseudonym or what? Like "Katie Honeypot."
I think I'll just start calling her "Katie Botox," (half-assed anagram) or maybe "Katie Buttocks." Boy, her playground days must have been a drag!
Actually that's -
Plus, Al wants to make sure that he gets his songwriter credit (as writer of new lyrics) as well as his rightful share of the royalties.
This implies that not all the royalties are going to Al. Which leads me to believe that he is in fact paying a share of them to the original artist. The arrangement of permission ensures that the original artist doesn't get them all.
A group in the US, the Center for Cogntive Liberty & Ethics just published a report earlier this month
called "Pharmacotherapy and the Future of the Drug War" that predicted the
entrance of compulsory "vaccines" against illicit drugs. It details exactly
what these drugs are, who's testing them (Big Pharma) and who's funding it
(NIDA). The report is available for free as a pdf .
See this thread for prefs.js tweaks you can use to make pages render more quickly in Firefox (and Mozilla, though not all these tweaks are available in Mozilla).
if you don't want to be spied upon, then don't do suspicious things
I refuse to let my freedoms be dictated by the arbitrary definition of "suspicious."
What a wonderful word! It has no inherent meaning--it simply includes at any given time activities which are considered (by the subject!) to be "out of the norm."
This is what the furor is (and should be) about! Being different from the majority is not in itself criminal, and must never be treated as such! To allow criminal deviance to be conflated with all cultural deviance is fundamentally anti-American. We are a state founded on the ideal of tolerance and inclusiveness, and repression such as the PATRIOT act allows for aims us in the completely opposite direction; toward fascicm.
Slashdot Mirror
I am more likely to give a +1 Informative to an AC-posted article mirror than a member-posted article mirror, simply because I feel that people shouldn't build karma by just copying and pasting articles. Original Insights and Information are much more valuable in the long run.
Some mistakes in the data for my school, too. Univ of California, Davis is reported as having no wireless network, but I'm on it right now!
Just as BartPE is not a full XP installation (due to both size and technical limitations), this MS Office plugin doesn't create a full Office suite, but rather a set of MS Office viewers.
Use Natasha's Microsoft Office 97 Standard SR-2 plugin:
It requires system files from a (licensed) Office 97 SR-2 CD, but uses the Microsoft 2003 Office Converter Pack to enable viewing of Word 2003, Excel 2003 and Powerpoint 2003 files.
So you can open these files on a disabled machine for rescue purposes (which is the primary use of BartPE, at least for me) but you can't create new documents.
I thought the Jon Stewart Show was hilarious, and I was sorry when it was cancelled. Even in '93 his wit was much sharper and fresher than his contemporaries.
There are scads of folks out there busily building their own add-ons and plugins for the BartPE environment which you can just download and include in your own installation- everything from Java Runtime to Citrix ICA client to Trillian. And literally a hundred more.
I've found it an indispensible Windows recovery tool. I can boot off the CD and run Adaware, Spybot and McAfee scans on the system hard drive, removing all the IE trojan nonsense before it starts up and get resident in memory. I can connect to network shares and transfer data from machines that won't boot.
You don't even have to boot from the CD- it will autorun in an active Windows XP session and give you the same NU2 menu. So it can be used to run applications locally that you don't want to install on the client's machine.
I emailed a modified version of these comments:
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Good morning/afternoon/evening Mr. Hayes!
You have just appeared as the asshole of the day (09 October 2004) on Slashdot, the largest geek news website. Expect many many more e-mails and possibly telephone calls and faxes from other geeks like me!
True, use of such software as Seti@Home on production line equiptment isn't a good idea. SETI does not cause system damage, but may slow things down. A warning, a pay cut, a write-up, etc. would have been justifiable punishment, but firing Mr. Smith and then saying:
"I understand his desire to search for intelligent life in outer space, because obviously he doesn't find it in the mirror in the morning," Hayes said. "I think that people can be comfortable that security has beamed this man out of our building."
is absolutely uncalled for and far beyond the pale. I think you even stand a pretty good chance at being Dick of the Week!
Your personal info (such as address, this e-mail address, fax, etc.) is in the comment tree of the article.
Here is the link: 9&tid=126&tid=1>
Good Luck!
----
And it got me thinking- we need an Asshole of the Day / Dick of the Week system on Slashdot. Like a persistant poll or something.
-Eddie Izzard, "Dress To Kill"
Click on "Garbage" (but note that this flash applet doesn't appear to work in mozilla :(
Editor's Note
Hi. No new posts until further notice.
If you know things: ifsoyl at gmail.com.
posted by jordan | 1:57 PM
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Thanks for ruining it for everyone, Slashdot :)
Actually, I figured with tidal wave of publicity a slashdotting gets you, plus the timbre of the legal-minded comments posted here, the site was doomed.
Yeah, and I guess the fishermen he is shooting and killing on the open water somehow don't care about living or dying? I mean, obviously, right? Otherwise they wouldn't be out there, trying to catch food for the day! They must not have learned your "lesson," that "when the shooting starts, get your ass inside!"
Do you hear what you are saying, man? Killing Japanese fishermen was justifiable because your Dad "wanted to live," and thought that out of all the innocents he killed, there might have been a few people with guns under tarps? Bullshit! He was a terrorist!
By definition, terrorism is "violence against civilians or similar noncombatants, especially in order to achieve political or similarly ideological aims, or to intimidate or coerce a civilian population."
You think that 11690 civilians have been killed in Iraq so far because they've been hit by ricocheting bullets in street battles? No, it's pilots like your Dad who are "just following orders" (or not) and intentionally targeting civilians or similar noncombatants. My United States of America is the biggest terrorist the world has yet known.
In this novel, the wealthy regularly clone their children and have the clone live in a "clone farm." Whenever the "real" child needs a new liver (because they're an alcoholic) or a new arm (because they got in a bar fight and damaged a muscle) the doctors just rip the part out of or off of the "spare" child (sans anesthesia) and attach it to or in the "real" child.
The "spares" are completely dehumanized. Though biologically they are identical to the "real" child, socially they are nothing more than warm storage units for their "real" sibling's backup parts.
The ethics surrounding this medical future are mind-boggling. I think the abortion debators have a head start when it comes to thinking about these issues. What level of value should we properly assign to what forms and stages of "life?"
Automatically downloads all current patches for WinXP, Win2000 or 2003 Server installations, slipstreams them and creates an ISO image. Fully configurable, including unattended install scripts through winnt.sif and first-boot application installs and regtweaks through cmdlines.txt. You can pick and choose which hotfixes and add-ons you want to apply.
Although the "current hotfix" list on the website doesn't yet reflect it, WindowsXP-KB835935-SP2-ENU.exe is now the default service pack for the hotfix autodownloader.
Actually, the US Supreme Court just decided otherwise in the case of HIIBEL V. SIXTH JUDICIAL DIST. COURT OF NEV.,HUMBOLDT CTY. Dudley Hiibel was approached by a cop and told to identify himself to help the cop "investigate an investigation." He was given no indication of probable cause (the cop was responding to a passerby who thought there was a "domestic disturbance" in progress, though in reality Dudley was arguing with his daughter on the side of the road.) His arrest for failing to identify himself was upheld. HE HAD COMMITTED NO OTHER CRIME! All other charges were dropped immediately. His "crime" was being John Doe, for which he was arrested, convicted and fined. See Hiibel Revisited at Slate for more analysis.
Sounds like a tech-challenged reporter reporting wide-eyed about crashing "medical devices" which she doesn't really understand.
At first I thought this had to be an article about sting operations and breaking up international porn rings. I mean, is that the perfect vice-squad pseudonym or what? Like "Katie Honeypot."
I think I'll just start calling her "Katie Botox," (half-assed anagram) or maybe "Katie Buttocks." Boy, her playground days must have been a drag!
Plus, Al wants to make sure that he gets his songwriter credit (as writer of new lyrics) as well as his rightful share of the royalties.
This implies that not all the royalties are going to Al. Which leads me to believe that he is in fact paying a share of them to the original artist. The arrangement of permission ensures that the original artist doesn't get them all.
A group in the US, the Center for Cogntive Liberty & Ethics just published a report earlier this month called "Pharmacotherapy and the Future of the Drug War" that predicted the entrance of compulsory "vaccines" against illicit drugs. It details exactly what these drugs are, who's testing them (Big Pharma) and who's funding it (NIDA). The report is available for free as a pdf .
Me too--all day today.
My father was killed by a 3/32" bevelled grommet, you insensitive clod!
"MultiCULTURALism" Double-plus-good. Though I've never heard of uniculturalism.
benedict vohigehi@mailmoat.com
See this thread for prefs.js tweaks you can use to make pages render more quickly in Firefox (and Mozilla, though not all these tweaks are available in Mozilla).
I refuse to let my freedoms be dictated by the arbitrary definition of "suspicious."
What a wonderful word! It has no inherent meaning--it simply includes at any given time activities which are considered (by the subject!) to be "out of the norm."
This is what the furor is (and should be) about! Being different from the majority is not in itself criminal, and must never be treated as such! To allow criminal deviance to be conflated with all cultural deviance is fundamentally anti-American. We are a state founded on the ideal of tolerance and inclusiveness, and repression such as the PATRIOT act allows for aims us in the completely opposite direction; toward fascicm.
Even better way to get all those hotfixes RIGHT ONTO YOUR CD, so you don't have to muck about with downloading updates and waiting for them to install: XPCREATE: The XP Distribution CD Creator with Hotfix Slipstreaming
Not having your email-forwarding transactions recorded is a civil right? Boy, they thought of everything back in 1964!