IE already displays that message, and defaulting to cancel will not help. Most people who fall victim to this stuff are the "OK button? I click that, right?" crowd. What we need are detailed boxes explaining "THIS IS SOFTWARE THAT WILL BREAK YOUR NETWORK STACK, CORRUPT YOUR BROWSER (more than it already is), AND WASTE YOUR BANDWIDTH (the stuff that lets you download stupid shit on Kazaa)! Whenever I see those "install this?" boxes, I can't help but remember this...
Hey, my ps/2 was a 12Mhz! It ran wolfenstein 3d from a floppy in a window the size of a minidisc in monocrome like no other! Thanks to that machine, I was all too ready for...LOADING... on the playstation...
But would it star the rest of My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult? Or was that Lords of Acid... Like it matters, they've been on perpetual tour together for the last decade or so anyway...
or run them all together as MSN tech support is trained to do... "netsh int ip reset resetlog.txt" That along with "regsvr32 softpub.dll" and "regsvr32 wintrust.dll" will fix 99% of MSN problems. That and Referring to OEM...
Not a problem here. Been using it since yesterday, and no skipping here, and I'm only running a 1.4 athlon, 256 meg machine. I had two bittorrent windows open (finally got around to getting slack 9.1), firebird, msn messenger 6.1, and IE6 pulling the latest "Features" off windows update. And I wasusing itunes to rip an old cd, while listening to the cd I had just ripped. No skipping. I'd say check you're sound card, but mines the built in ac97 type, and I don't think it gets any cheaper than that...
Actually MSN blocks attachments that are executable..exe.htm and a bunch of others are blocked. Of course most customers still like sending "a web page" (think save as... attach "usanumber1_funny.htm") and bitch and moan when they have to wait for their mail to be scanned and filtered before they get it...
9600? Hmmmm... WHY!?! Last I checked 56k modems ran for about $5 a piece (less in bulk). Honestly people, isn't it time to face the facts? It's the 21'st freaking century here! I'm in no way opposed to using old hardware. Hell, I say get all we can out of that stuff. But this "I can run a webserver on my TI-99" shit just has to stop...
To OSS advocates like us, there is no logic. But to corporate america, any chance of getting involved in legal action is highly questionable. Guaranteed, SCO's claims are making some companies think twice, thrice, and whatever comes after that... What's nice is that a few big reputable companies (Oracle, I've heard of them...), are calling the bluff.
Good show. I guess, I just don't have the time to spend with my slackware partition anymore since I got a real fucking job and stopped working graves at the 7-11... I do love the idea of open source, and I do use my slack as much as possible, but goddammit, I need shit to just work out of the box once in a while. When I don't have to turn off FUCKING APACHE, SENDMAIL, FTPD, AND THE REST after an install, dick with my fonts, install xine, mplayer. realplayer, xmms, newest mozilla, gaim, and your fucking mom to getthe basics done, then I can convince my roomate everquest is evil, and delete the XP part. Love the linux, and will never be without. Also love the XP, and can't wait for the day I can do without.
I type "vuln", because like the rest of you, I'm lazy, and don't feel the need to type "Vulneralabilities"... Look, i even spelled it wrong... I must be a tool...
Fair enough, I don't do admin, so I don't do any server patching, and it does make it seem to be a case of: "Damned if you do, Damed if you don't"... Of course if some silly worm takes down windows, I do have that second, more attractive, boot option... Slackware, Which I have labelled: "Last Known Good"...
They were infected before applying the patch. I've seen this at my job (tech support for #2 ISP), last I heard, in order to completely remove the virus and get the patch, emachines, HP, and others were using "Restore, wipe disk" solutions... however, using a virus clean for the vuln, turning on the Internet Connection Firewall, downloading the patch, and then running the vuln clean again, takes care of it. Of course I updated when it came out and always run the firewall, So I never saw it... But I still updated Norton, ran a scan, and it came back good. I guess I have no sympathy because I know tomorrow there will be 200 calls in que when I walk in at 8:30...
Yes, we do. Haven't you figured that out by now? Or are you too busy trying to come up with new ways to insert "fags" into your everyday vocabulary? Just wait, MS will soon start auditing windows update logs for "corporate edition", start tracing IP's, and you'll have to explain to the FBI, that they're just a bunch of "fags"... And whoever the fuck modded this up, (most likely your real account) I'd like to say good job.
I remember when this vuln was announced, I hit windows update that day (7/16), and lo and behold, it was a critical update... Remember how this vuln was all over the news? Remember how "the authorities" were listening in on chatrooms and saying there was a lot of talk about an exploit? I certainly remember all of this, so I say screw those who didn't patch. What's better, installing a patch that screws your system when you can blame that on MS, or not installing the patch and having no one to blame but yourself?
The silly thing is that most people called back when it was announced, (thanks evening news doomsayers...), with the fear of the "hackers" all through them. Now they're acting miffed when I say "a security issue that was announced on july, has not been patched on your system"... some guy even angrily took down the long distance # for ms support, because his pirate xp wouldn't auto update...
A big giant company, openly using linux even with sco's perfectly logical (from a corporate america standpoint) litigation. A big giant company that other big giant companies buy from. This is what I like to see. And by the time I finish this post it will nolonger be first. I'll be lucky to break the top 50 by the end of this sentence...
Since I do tech support and deal with "the common user", I like the hand-holding. Things get silly when I take 9x calls. Set this here, and that there, now lets go over here and check this. XP cuts down on a lot of that. Of course it's still silly (registry), and bordering on retarded (OEM's that set profiles wrong... Fscking HP...) but it's a huge step forward. Of course if we implemented the license idea, it'd be the late early 90's all over again, and geeks like us would have a job market...
This has probably been adressed but, is there a non-programmer version of the changelog? I mean I like to know whats going on, but I only keep track of releases like this one. I'd like to see maybe at the top of the changelog, a simple 2.4.20 to 2.4.21 rundown. I guess I just don't have the patience for starting at the bottom and working my way up...
spend the extra $50 and get enough memory to actually run X...
This dosen't look bad at all....
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So now the general public, and all the PHB's out there see it like this:
SCO does something wholly American by pursuing "Legal Action" against those open source thieves. And these linux "hackers" respond by in a "hackerly" manner.
Great. As long as we keep up on the snide comments made to "Windoze Luzurz", we should be right on track to obscurity.
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IE already displays that message, and defaulting to cancel will not help. Most people who fall victim to this stuff are the "OK button? I click that, right?" crowd. What we need are detailed boxes explaining "THIS IS SOFTWARE THAT WILL BREAK YOUR NETWORK STACK, CORRUPT YOUR BROWSER (more than it already is), AND WASTE YOUR BANDWIDTH (the stuff that lets you download stupid shit on Kazaa)! Whenever I see those "install this?" boxes, I can't help but remember this...
Hey, my ps/2 was a 12Mhz! It ran wolfenstein 3d from a floppy in a window the size of a minidisc in monocrome like no other! Thanks to that machine, I was all too ready for ...LOADING... on the playstation...
aw, cheez it, it's the feds!
But would it star the rest of My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult? Or was that Lords of Acid... Like it matters, they've been on perpetual tour together for the last decade or so anyway...
or run them all together as MSN tech support is trained to do... "netsh int ip reset resetlog.txt" That along with "regsvr32 softpub.dll" and "regsvr32 wintrust.dll" will fix 99% of MSN problems. That and Referring to OEM...
Not a problem here. Been using it since yesterday, and no skipping here, and I'm only running a 1.4 athlon, 256 meg machine. I had two bittorrent windows open (finally got around to getting slack 9.1), firebird, msn messenger 6.1, and IE6 pulling the latest "Features" off windows update. And I wasusing itunes to rip an old cd, while listening to the cd I had just ripped. No skipping. I'd say check you're sound card, but mines the built in ac97 type, and I don't think it gets any cheaper than that...
New manifestations of Job Security for us techs!
Actually MSN blocks attachments that are executable. .exe .htm and a bunch of others are blocked. Of course most customers still like sending "a web page" (think save as... attach "usanumber1_funny.htm") and bitch and moan when they have to wait for their mail to be scanned and filtered before they get it...
9600? Hmmmm... WHY!?! Last I checked 56k modems ran for about $5 a piece (less in bulk). Honestly people, isn't it time to face the facts? It's the 21'st freaking century here! I'm in no way opposed to using old hardware. Hell, I say get all we can out of that stuff. But this "I can run a webserver on my TI-99" shit just has to stop...
To OSS advocates like us, there is no logic. But to corporate america, any chance of getting involved in legal action is highly questionable. Guaranteed, SCO's claims are making some companies think twice, thrice, and whatever comes after that... What's nice is that a few big reputable companies (Oracle, I've heard of them...), are calling the bluff.
Good show. I guess, I just don't have the time to spend with my slackware partition anymore since I got a real fucking job and stopped working graves at the 7-11... I do love the idea of open source, and I do use my slack as much as possible, but goddammit, I need shit to just work out of the box once in a while. When I don't have to turn off FUCKING APACHE, SENDMAIL, FTPD, AND THE REST after an install, dick with my fonts, install xine, mplayer. realplayer, xmms, newest mozilla, gaim, and your fucking mom to getthe basics done, then I can convince my roomate everquest is evil, and delete the XP part. Love the linux, and will never be without. Also love the XP, and can't wait for the day I can do without.
I type "vuln", because like the rest of you, I'm lazy, and don't feel the need to type "Vulneralabilities"... Look, i even spelled it wrong... I must be a tool...
Fair enough, I don't do admin, so I don't do any server patching, and it does make it seem to be a case of: "Damned if you do, Damed if you don't"... Of course if some silly worm takes down windows, I do have that second, more attractive, boot option... Slackware, Which I have labelled: "Last Known Good"...
They were infected before applying the patch. I've seen this at my job (tech support for #2 ISP), last I heard, in order to completely remove the virus and get the patch, emachines, HP, and others were using "Restore, wipe disk" solutions... however, using a virus clean for the vuln, turning on the Internet Connection Firewall, downloading the patch, and then running the vuln clean again, takes care of it. Of course I updated when it came out and always run the firewall, So I never saw it... But I still updated Norton, ran a scan, and it came back good. I guess I have no sympathy because I know tomorrow there will be 200 calls in que when I walk in at 8:30...
Yes, we do. Haven't you figured that out by now? Or are you too busy trying to come up with new ways to insert "fags" into your everyday vocabulary? Just wait, MS will soon start auditing windows update logs for "corporate edition", start tracing IP's, and you'll have to explain to the FBI, that they're just a bunch of "fags"... And whoever the fuck modded this up, (most likely your real account) I'd like to say good job.
I remember when this vuln was announced, I hit windows update that day (7/16), and lo and behold, it was a critical update... Remember how this vuln was all over the news? Remember how "the authorities" were listening in on chatrooms and saying there was a lot of talk about an exploit? I certainly remember all of this, so I say screw those who didn't patch. What's better, installing a patch that screws your system when you can blame that on MS, or not installing the patch and having no one to blame but yourself?
The silly thing is that most people called back when it was announced, (thanks evening news doomsayers...), with the fear of the "hackers" all through them. Now they're acting miffed when I say "a security issue that was announced on july, has not been patched on your system"... some guy even angrily took down the long distance # for ms support, because his pirate xp wouldn't auto update...
A big giant company, openly using linux even with sco's perfectly logical (from a corporate america standpoint) litigation. A big giant company that other big giant companies buy from. This is what I like to see. And by the time I finish this post it will nolonger be first. I'll be lucky to break the top 50 by the end of this sentence...
Since I do tech support and deal with "the common user", I like the hand-holding. Things get silly when I take 9x calls. Set this here, and that there, now lets go over here and check this. XP cuts down on a lot of that. Of course it's still silly (registry), and bordering on retarded (OEM's that set profiles wrong... Fscking HP...) but it's a huge step forward. Of course if we implemented the license idea, it'd be the late early 90's all over again, and geeks like us would have a job market...
and what are all those PICTURES?
duct tape. that'll help close those gunshot wounds inflicted by the MPAA enforcers...
anyone know if access to other webmail (hotmail) accounts are possible? this would sway the crap out of me...
This has probably been adressed but, is there a non-programmer version of the changelog? I mean I like to know whats going on, but I only keep track of releases like this one. I'd like to see maybe at the top of the changelog, a simple 2.4.20 to 2.4.21 rundown. I guess I just don't have the patience for starting at the bottom and working my way up...
spend the extra $50 and get enough memory to actually run X...
So now the general public, and all the PHB's out there see it like this:
SCO does something wholly American by pursuing "Legal Action" against those open source thieves. And these linux "hackers" respond by in a "hackerly" manner.
Great. As long as we keep up on the snide comments made to "Windoze Luzurz", we should be right on track to obscurity.