Preface: I didn't vote for Obama, and I didn't vote for Bush. I also have never voted for any other American president, party, or political idea. I'm not an American, and I don't live in the USA.
My point:
Well, honestly, we can give him the benefit of the doubt, in that state secrets might actually be revealed if the case continues.
However, this does not mean that Obama is not being a moron.
There's a reason courts have the ability to seal records. If something that truly needs to be kept secret comes out in the court case, the judge reviews it, then orders the records for that particular part of the case sealed. It doesn't go into court records, doesn't show up on websites later, and in general, stays between those who heard it in the courtroom, with the threat of contempt of court charges if anybody ever says anything about it.
So, Obama is either an idiot who doesn't realize the above is possible, or he's a corrupt jerk, little or no better than Bush.
If he is using Win95, M$ stopped supporting that years ago; I'm pretty sure there are no Windows updates for that OS on their site anymore.
Haven't looked around their site much, have you? There are still updates for Windows 3.1, so I think the 65 or so updates for Windows 95 will be around for a bit.
And even if they're not, I have them all downloaded....
No...the updates are definitely there. There just aren't any new ones.
So whether moving air creates static electricity depends on which direction it moves? Regardless of relative motherboard orientation?
No. The flexible plastic hose of most vacuum cleaners generates static as air and heat-dried dust travels through it.
Use a soft, natural bristle brush to loosen the stuff and a vacuum to remove it.
That's the only way I'd ever use a vacuum on a computer. And even then, it's iffy. The bristles of the brush can drive dust in further just as effectively, possibly even more so, than an air compressor.
I'm pretty sure Ballmer would be able to put a chair 100% through a netbook. At least, as long as he hasn't gotten himself winded by running around like a lunatic.
On the other hand....
How does Redmond make an 80% gain in netbook market share without the sales numbers reflecting that gain?
I wouldn't be surprised at all if they're using pirated Windows statistics to up their market share. So they haven't actually sold anything, but Windows is on the system, therefore it belongs to them.
At the office, I'm still running a 350mghz PowerMac G4 computer (the bugger is 10 years old) as a server.
I fully agree with this. I'm running a Pentium 166 with 48MB RAM and NT 4.0 on my network as an answering machine/fax server. (Yes, I could run it with Linux, but I just haven't taken the time to migrate it.)
I put it together myself from scrap parts that I had kicking around, and it's basically been set up and ignored ever since. Although it's probably overdue to pull the cover and clean the dust out.
My philosophy has always been "If it does the job you need it to, don't mess with it." That's not to say you shouldn't install security updates and the like, but there's no reason for this machine to move to more powerful hardware, as long as what it's got still works. If it blows up, I'll upgrade. Until then, it works just fine, thank you.
Well, since the old machines are 15 years old, and still running fine, my suggestion would be this:
Don't buy a new one. Don't build a new one. If you must have a backup computer, find another old machine that's in somebody's basement, garage, or otherwise not being used. Build a low-power machine (Celeron, Sempron, whatever) with quality parts (3 year warranty, at least), with RAID, install Linux on it, and use it as storage for the database. Pull the cover from the old machines, take an air compressor to them to clean them out, then replace all the fans. Again, use high quality parts. Format and reinstall Windows on both, so the flakiness goes away. Install all updates, and the customer/patient management database, and configure it all to access the data on the server. Then, pull the drive, and use something like Clonezilla on a laptop with a USB-IDE adapter to take an image of the drive and save it on the server. Now you've got a couple of clean machines, with fresh software, redundancy for the data, and nobody has to deal with a change as drastic as Win95 to Vista. If a drive fails, you've got an image of the software preconfigured.
After you've done this, keep an eye out for old drives in the 1-5GB range. Try to get at least 3 or 4 that work well, so you've got spares for when one fails.
As long as you don't get hit with a power surge or something, this is the most likely failure of anything this old, as it's just too low powered to generate enough heat to cause too many problems. And if you need them, I've got a couple of AT type power supplies kicking around that work fine.
Also, make sure a proper backup is done of the data on the server. If he's got Internet access, encrypt it (GnuPG with a strong password or key) and send it to a gmail account, or something like that. Otherwise, a removable or USB drive that he can take offsite.
Don't know about Beckham, though, but it seems ridiculous to me that someone could get paid as much as he does for simply kicking a ball around a field.....
I can see where you're coming from, and it is a concern. However, we can only hope that most rational people will be able to see ad hominem attacks for what they are and filter them out from any real differing points of view.
If people were good at filtering out ad hominem attacks, then people wouldn't use ad hominem attacks, because they wouldn't work.
Unfortunately, people are idiots, ad hominem attacks do work, and "Think of the children! Why do you hate children? Are you a pedophile?" frequently does more to discount your argument to a crowd than any logical, well debated argument.
I just had a rootkit infection on a machine I was working on for a customer this morning. They were running no A/V software...just AVG Antispyware.
Installed Avast Free, and it detected the hidden rootkit files using heuristic scans, with the realtime scanner, no less.
Is it foolproof? No, probably not. But since Avast has a managed network version, I'd have no problem installing this on a customer's business network. In fact, I have, a few times.
If the big boys can't do the same kind of detection, then they have no business being in the antivirus industry.
Well....maybe I used to term "studies" somewhat loosely.
More like statistics.
Some kid shoots up a school, and it's determined that he played Counterstrike the night before, therefore in their sample there's a 100% correlation to videogames and violence.
I'd say as a rough guess, that 75% of viruses/trojans/malware nowadays turn off Windows Update as part of the infection process.
Somebody gets one of these fake Facebook spams, goes to the site in question to see Amanda Whatserface doing her striptease on stage, downloads Adobe_Player11.exe, so they can see the video, and bam. They're infected.
And before you bitch about them not having up to date antivirus.....I sent this file to virustotal.com a couple of days after I first got one of these spams, and it was detected as a known virus by a grand total of zero scanners. Two flagged it as a suspicious file, and the rest (37 or so) let it sail on through.
Somebody gets hit with one of these things, and they'll have no A/V, no Auto Updates, and probably no firewall. They won't know it, because they'll also have no Security Center Service.
Or there's the possibility that they got infected, took their machine to a big-box moron to get it fixed, and the idiot in question cleaned the virus, but didn't enable all the disabled services. So again, no firewall, no Auto Updates.
It's not all because they're turned off intentionally.
Use some n00b's computer to do your bidding and get first post on a geek tech board that said n00b doesn't even know exists, forget about has ever visited.
If you have even half-assed antivirus in a corporate environment, you'll be able to log into the admin console, and see what machines are infected. You can also see when a machine was last in contact with the controller, so if a virus kills the A/V on a machine, it will stop contacting. Anything that's been over a week since contact automatically should be physically investigated.
Of course, you could be using Norton Internet Security 2009 on your corporate machines, which doesn't have this capability. But if you are, you're an incompetent moron, and shouldn't be trusted with a Gameboy, forget a multi-computer corporate network.
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Preface: I didn't vote for Obama, and I didn't vote for Bush. I also have never voted for any other American president, party, or political idea. I'm not an American, and I don't live in the USA.
My point:
Well, honestly, we can give him the benefit of the doubt, in that state secrets might actually be revealed if the case continues.
However, this does not mean that Obama is not being a moron.
There's a reason courts have the ability to seal records. If something that truly needs to be kept secret comes out in the court case, the judge reviews it, then orders the records for that particular part of the case sealed. It doesn't go into court records, doesn't show up on websites later, and in general, stays between those who heard it in the courtroom, with the threat of contempt of court charges if anybody ever says anything about it.
So, Obama is either an idiot who doesn't realize the above is possible, or he's a corrupt jerk, little or no better than Bush.
Either way, he shouldn't be running your country.
And bureaucrats are politicians in everything but name and election method.....
Where would you get updates for WIN 95?
Errrmm.... microsoft.com? All the Win95 updates are still there, and still available through windows update....
If he is using Win95, M$ stopped supporting that years ago; I'm pretty sure there are no Windows updates for that OS on their site anymore.
Haven't looked around their site much, have you? There are still updates for Windows 3.1, so I think the 65 or so updates for Windows 95 will be around for a bit.
And even if they're not, I have them all downloaded....
No...the updates are definitely there. There just aren't any new ones.
House painting brush, perhaps augmented with pipe cleaners or Q-tips, or very skinny artist's brush.
Or just save all the freaking trouble, and use an air compressor.
So whether moving air creates static electricity depends on which direction it moves? Regardless of relative motherboard orientation?
No. The flexible plastic hose of most vacuum cleaners generates static as air and heat-dried dust travels through it.
Use a soft, natural bristle brush to loosen the stuff and a vacuum to remove it.
That's the only way I'd ever use a vacuum on a computer. And even then, it's iffy. The bristles of the brush can drive dust in further just as effectively, possibly even more so, than an air compressor.
Same thing that's wrong with every country in the world.....
Politicians.
I'm pretty sure Ballmer would be able to put a chair 100% through a netbook.
At least, as long as he hasn't gotten himself winded by running around like a lunatic.
On the other hand....
How does Redmond make an 80% gain in netbook market share without the sales numbers reflecting that gain?
I wouldn't be surprised at all if they're using pirated Windows statistics to up their market share. So they haven't actually sold anything, but Windows is on the system, therefore it belongs to them.
Only if he's an import. A true 'merkin would have been several hundred miles north.
...officials should be apologising, not only to him, but to all the people who lost their lives...
Errrmm. How do you apologize to someone that's dead?
Or just get quality components to begin with.
At the office, I'm still running a 350mghz PowerMac G4 computer (the bugger is 10 years old) as a server.
I fully agree with this. I'm running a Pentium 166 with 48MB RAM and NT 4.0 on my network as an answering machine/fax server. (Yes, I could run it with Linux, but I just haven't taken the time to migrate it.)
I put it together myself from scrap parts that I had kicking around, and it's basically been set up and ignored ever since. Although it's probably overdue to pull the cover and clean the dust out.
My philosophy has always been "If it does the job you need it to, don't mess with it."
That's not to say you shouldn't install security updates and the like, but there's no reason for this machine to move to more powerful hardware, as long as what it's got still works.
If it blows up, I'll upgrade. Until then, it works just fine, thank you.
Well, since the old machines are 15 years old, and still running fine, my suggestion would be this:
Don't buy a new one. Don't build a new one. If you must have a backup computer, find another old machine that's in somebody's basement, garage, or otherwise not being used.
Build a low-power machine (Celeron, Sempron, whatever) with quality parts (3 year warranty, at least), with RAID, install Linux on it, and use it as storage for the database.
Pull the cover from the old machines, take an air compressor to them to clean them out, then replace all the fans. Again, use high quality parts.
Format and reinstall Windows on both, so the flakiness goes away. Install all updates, and the customer/patient management database, and configure it all to access the data on the server.
Then, pull the drive, and use something like Clonezilla on a laptop with a USB-IDE adapter to take an image of the drive and save it on the server.
Now you've got a couple of clean machines, with fresh software, redundancy for the data, and nobody has to deal with a change as drastic as Win95 to Vista.
If a drive fails, you've got an image of the software preconfigured.
After you've done this, keep an eye out for old drives in the 1-5GB range. Try to get at least 3 or 4 that work well, so you've got spares for when one fails.
As long as you don't get hit with a power surge or something, this is the most likely failure of anything this old, as it's just too low powered to generate enough heat to cause too many problems.
And if you need them, I've got a couple of AT type power supplies kicking around that work fine.
Also, make sure a proper backup is done of the data on the server. If he's got Internet access, encrypt it (GnuPG with a strong password or key) and send it to a gmail account, or something like that. Otherwise, a removable or USB drive that he can take offsite.
Who the hell modded this "off topic"?
The Phoenix Police Chief? :)
Care to tell us who JK Rowling stole from?
Uuuhhmmm... Maybe the fans?
George Lucas has done OK, who did he rip off?
His co-designers?
Don't know about Beckham, though, but it seems ridiculous to me that someone could get paid as much as he does for simply kicking a ball around a field.....
It took 3 1/2 hours for somebody to catch that.
I was kind of worried there, for....well, 3 1/2 hours.
Which in this case, is directly related to the argument at hand.
People are idiots, therefore ad hominem attacks work.
If people weren't idiots, they wouldn't work.
This isn't "You're wrong because you're an idiot." It's "You're gullible because you're an idiot."
Completely different.
Revenge is a dish best served cold.
It is very cold in space.
I can see where you're coming from, and it is a concern. However, we can only hope that most rational people will be able to see ad hominem attacks for what they are and filter them out from any real differing points of view.
If people were good at filtering out ad hominem attacks, then people wouldn't use ad hominem attacks, because they wouldn't work.
Unfortunately, people are idiots, ad hominem attacks do work, and "Think of the children! Why do you hate children? Are you a pedophile?" frequently does more to discount your argument to a crowd than any logical, well debated argument.
every pimply faced teenager with a dwl conneciton is a publisher
DWL? Digital Weiner Line? Digital Wanker Line? Is that the connection for people who piss you off?
Well, it'll remove the nag screens, which could be considered an improvement.
But I'm not sure the method is the best way to go about that....
I just had a rootkit infection on a machine I was working on for a customer this morning. They were running no A/V software...just AVG Antispyware.
Installed Avast Free, and it detected the hidden rootkit files using heuristic scans, with the realtime scanner, no less.
Is it foolproof? No, probably not. But since Avast has a managed network version, I'd have no problem installing this on a customer's business network. In fact, I have, a few times.
If the big boys can't do the same kind of detection, then they have no business being in the antivirus industry.
Well....maybe I used to term "studies" somewhat loosely.
More like statistics.
Some kid shoots up a school, and it's determined that he played Counterstrike the night before, therefore in their sample there's a 100% correlation to videogames and violence.
I'd say as a rough guess, that 75% of viruses/trojans/malware nowadays turn off Windows Update as part of the infection process.
Somebody gets one of these fake Facebook spams, goes to the site in question to see Amanda Whatserface doing her striptease on stage, downloads Adobe_Player11.exe, so they can see the video, and bam. They're infected.
And before you bitch about them not having up to date antivirus.....I sent this file to virustotal.com a couple of days after I first got one of these spams, and it was detected as a known virus by a grand total of zero scanners.
Two flagged it as a suspicious file, and the rest (37 or so) let it sail on through.
Somebody gets hit with one of these things, and they'll have no A/V, no Auto Updates, and probably no firewall. They won't know it, because they'll also have no Security Center Service.
Or there's the possibility that they got infected, took their machine to a big-box moron to get it fixed, and the idiot in question cleaned the virus, but didn't enable all the disabled services. So again, no firewall, no Auto Updates.
It's not all because they're turned off intentionally.
Kind of the ultimate hack, no?
Use some n00b's computer to do your bidding and get first post on a geek tech board that said n00b doesn't even know exists, forget about has ever visited.
Yeah.....that's pretty cool.
If you have even half-assed antivirus in a corporate environment, you'll be able to log into the admin console, and see what machines are infected.
You can also see when a machine was last in contact with the controller, so if a virus kills the A/V on a machine, it will stop contacting. Anything that's been over a week since contact automatically should be physically investigated.
Of course, you could be using Norton Internet Security 2009 on your corporate machines, which doesn't have this capability. But if you are, you're an incompetent moron, and shouldn't be trusted with a Gameboy, forget a multi-computer corporate network.