I'm not sure where the link in the article (http://www.softintegration.com.nyud.net:8090/) came from, but it wasn't working for me so I tried www.softintegration.com and that worked fine.
My company, ChoiceStream is partnered with eMusic to provide item 3 on that list. We do personalized recommendations for several companies, and in eMusic's case, we have provided them a system that allows them to show you other people who have downloaded or rated the selected item. They can also give you a list of "neighbors"; people who like the same music you like so you can easily check out what they have downloaded and find new stuff.
I'm quite happy with the system we've delivered to them. I signed up for their service after we launched and I've found a ton of new DJs and artists using it.
AOL asks for the SecureID number in a separate dialog (or page for SNS) from the username/password so that shouldn't be too much of a problem.
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Everyone else already said you most likely aren't infected, but if your machine is totally unsecured, the first thing I'd recommend is getting a good software firewall installed and running. There are many different products out there with prices varying from free to darn expensive. I'll let someone else link to them for Karma.:) If you practice reasonably safe internet usage (e.g. not opening attachments you aren't expecting, not visiting websites from random links, not visiting shady websites) then your chances of catching a worm or virus drop to a comfortably low percentage if you have a solid firewall blocking all unnecessary incoming and outgoing traffic.
From there you can find a reasonable free antivirus that you can run once a week or use it to examine any attachments that you do feel you need to open.
Actually, there is a growing LiveJournal meme regarding spacer journals. Currently over two dozen of them. One of the communications satellites keeps a public friends filter of all of them available here:
So I will throw my two bits in, if you truly are network administrators and you won't even have the appropriate permissions to customize your box to be able to comfortably and quickly perform your job, just start looking for another one. It means that someone who does not have the best interests of neither you or your company in mind.
That being said, I am going to hope it isn't quite that bad. I am a developer who works on a Windows XP desktop primarily. I have a Linux box at home and a Linux server that hosts my mail and such. I can get by in Linux and I am very comfortable with a command prompt. I use gVim as my editor, and either cygwin or the even lighter ports of GNU utilities available at unxutils.sourceforge.net (linked directly against msvcrt rather than cygwin). The nice thing about these utilities is that they don't require any installation or anything. Drop them in a directory, optionally add that directory to your path and you are good to go.
Don't get rid of that launch tower! Some day, all our fancy high tech gizmos with the flashing lights and buttons made out of Styrofoam will mysteriously fail (while all the scientists smack their foreheads wondering how they could have missed such a glaring flaw in their plan). Then, all hope will be lost for our ruggedly handsome astronauts and the one superstar cute girl who just happened to stow-a-way. Until, that is, the quirky hero who forgets to shave regularly and whom everyone discounts because he never fully recovered his sense of self worth after **the accident** will come up with a daring plan to use decades old technology and will blast a new rocket whipped together with spare parts found in broom closets into outer space from that tower, saving the day and restoring everyone's faith in him.. (Also getting him the envied thirty second make out session from the sexy stow-a-way when she lands.)
This whole thing is a huge quagmire. I think that SCO will go under when they run out of arguments and threats and cannot delay showing proof any longer, and I think it is very unfortunate that the GNU/Linux community has to try so hard to keep their nose clean and take so much bad PR when some wacko goes off and makes DDoS worms and such, but all that aside...
I just had to mention the last Q&A in the McBride interview it.. It is amazing that these words of truth came out of the mouth of that forked tongue beast (emphasis mine):
Q: You've received bomb threats, death threats and plenty of hate mail because of what you're doing. Have you ever wanted to say to your detractors, "Hey folks, this is just software here?"
A: They say if you want to get into an argument at the dinner table, start a conversation about religion or politics. I would argue that Linux is a cross between religion and politics.
However it may have started, many Linux activists today seem to be a volatile mixture of their political ideas regarding OSS vs. Proprietary Software and a religious fervor that gives them the belief that there could be nothing wrong with Linux and that nothing can be better than it.
Wow.. I can certainly say that would suck.:/ Well, hopefully the measurements I provided will be of some use to the parent in their attempts to make a decision.
You laugh but this past halloween, I went to a costume party as a "music pirate".
I had just the fleece vest stuffed full with everything media related I could think of. My Dension MP3 player, Treo 600, USB Memory stick, a bunch of DVD-Rs, MP3 CDs, and my wifes mini-disc player.. I ended up with almost a terrabyte of storage space.:)
I printed out a little Napster logo and wore it around my neck.. Goofy, but the best part was, I could take the vest off and not have to suffer through wearing a stuffy costume all evening..:)
The flap that covers the zipper has pairs of small weak magnets that keep it closed. I *love* this feature. The magnets are too small to hurt any sort of electronics, and the way those magnets are stitched in to the 3.0 vest, I can't imagine how they could fall out short of a critical failure on an attempt to jump over a barbed wire fence.:)
It's very tough figuring out the sizes without being able to try it on. One good thing, they have a guarentee, so if you get the medium or the large-tall and it doesn't work out, you can send it back and get the right size and you won't be out anything more than shipping costs.
I own a medium and it fits me great. It comes down about 14cm below my hips (the top of my jeans) which is exactly where I'd expect a jacket to be. It is roomy enough inside for me to wear it with a sweater or with the fleece lining zipped in and no sweater. It is a bit too bulky to try both.
He's got a family-owned nitch business, and he is a tech-nut. I don't see *anything* wrong with his only postings on Slashdot being about his products.
I'm curious, when you looked at his posting history, were there only six entries? I looked at all of them and didn't see anything that I could objectively think of giving reason for bad vibes...
I replied to the other comment you linked. Don't know the details, but you always have to consider the bad marks against the good. I've never had any trouble with him or his company.
You should obviously get a jacket that you like. If the one you like is at the surplus store or Walmart, then you are in luck. I wanted a jacket with a lot of pockets for my toys, and I love the one I got from SCOTTeVEST (although all the capitals in the name irks me sometimes.;)
I purchased their products for myself and as gifts. I've communicated with both him and his wife and they were professional and friendly.
I accidentally got on their mailing list twice, and I was easily able to unsubscribe the second address.
I won't discount any of your statements since I don't know the details of your interaction with him, but I just wanted to give my personal opinions regarding SCOTTeVEST.
Scott, I agree with this post. If the brim had enough surface area to be able to charge something it would be fantastic on its own.
I purchased one of the SCOTTeVEST hats as well, I wore it, but I wasn't entirely satisfied with the fit. It didn't hug my head tightly enough and tended to be very easy to blow off. It was very nicely constructed though. Unfortunately, I managed to lose it in a restaurant.:/
I have had no problems with it. It actually makes the security checkpoint very convenient. I just stick it in a bucket and send it through the x-ray machine. All I have to worry about is remembering to take off my watch.
His non-recursive C++ version is rather bogus. It works, but it is recursive, it is just taking the stack out of the hands of the compiler and managing it himself. Take a look at some of the cyclic answers in other comments here for a very nice non-recursive version.
Actually, I was surprised that the bottom level of the effects was a faint bang. I would have supposed it went a little further until nothing at all was heard.
But hey, he's a scientist, so he must be right, right?
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I'm not sure where the link in the article (http://www.softintegration.com.nyud.net:8090/) came from, but it wasn't working for me so I tried www.softintegration.com and that worked fine.
I'm quite happy with the system we've delivered to them. I signed up for their service after we launched and I've found a ton of new DJs and artists using it.
AOL asks for the SecureID number in a separate dialog (or page for SNS) from the username/password so that shouldn't be too much of a problem.
Everyone else already said you most likely aren't infected, but if your machine is totally unsecured, the first thing I'd recommend is getting a good software firewall installed and running. There are many different products out there with prices varying from free to darn expensive. I'll let someone else link to them for Karma. :)
If you practice reasonably safe internet usage (e.g. not opening attachments you aren't expecting, not visiting websites from random links, not visiting shady websites) then your chances of catching a worm or virus drop to a comfortably low percentage if you have a solid firewall blocking all unnecessary incoming and outgoing traffic.
From there you can find a reasonable free antivirus that you can run once a week or use it to examine any attachments that you do feel you need to open.
Actually, there is a growing LiveJournal meme regarding spacer journals. Currently over two dozen of them. One of the communications satellites keeps a public friends filter of all of them available here:
HGS1's Spacers List
These journals are a blast to read. Check it out!
No, the sick and offensive one was the parody of a MasterCard ad based on the Columbine tragedy. Check elsewhere in the comments for links.
or the BFG9000
So I will throw my two bits in, if you truly are network administrators and you won't even have the appropriate permissions to customize your box to be able to comfortably and quickly perform your job, just start looking for another one. It means that someone who does not have the best interests of neither you or your company in mind.
That being said, I am going to hope it isn't quite that bad. I am a developer who works on a Windows XP desktop primarily. I have a Linux box at home and a Linux server that hosts my mail and such. I can get by in Linux and I am very comfortable with a command prompt. I use gVim as my editor, and either cygwin or the even lighter ports of GNU utilities available at unxutils.sourceforge.net (linked directly against msvcrt rather than cygwin). The nice thing about these utilities is that they don't require any installation or anything. Drop them in a directory, optionally add that directory to your path and you are good to go.
Don't get rid of that launch tower! Some day, all our fancy high tech gizmos with the flashing lights and buttons made out of Styrofoam will mysteriously fail (while all the scientists smack their foreheads wondering how they could have missed such a glaring flaw in their plan). Then, all hope will be lost for our ruggedly handsome astronauts and the one superstar cute girl who just happened to stow-a-way. Until, that is, the quirky hero who forgets to shave regularly and whom everyone discounts because he never fully recovered his sense of self worth after **the accident** will come up with a daring plan to use decades old technology and will blast a new rocket whipped together with spare parts found in broom closets into outer space from that tower, saving the day and restoring everyone's faith in him.. (Also getting him the envied thirty second make out session from the sexy stow-a-way when she lands.)
This whole thing is a huge quagmire. I think that SCO will go under when they run out of arguments and threats and cannot delay showing proof any longer, and I think it is very unfortunate that the GNU/Linux community has to try so hard to keep their nose clean and take so much bad PR when some wacko goes off and makes DDoS worms and such, but all that aside...
I just had to mention the last Q&A in the McBride interview it.. It is amazing that these words of truth came out of the mouth of that forked tongue beast (emphasis mine):
However it may have started, many Linux activists today seem to be a volatile mixture of their political ideas regarding OSS vs. Proprietary Software and a religious fervor that gives them the belief that there could be nothing wrong with Linux and that nothing can be better than it.
Wow.. I can certainly say that would suck. :/ Well, hopefully the measurements I provided will be of some use to the parent in their attempts to make a decision.
I didn't want to wear it in public because it was a shocking eye-sore. ;)
You laugh but this past halloween, I went to a costume party as a "music pirate".
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I had just the fleece vest stuffed full with everything media related I could think of. My Dension MP3 player, Treo 600, USB Memory stick, a bunch of DVD-Rs, MP3 CDs, and my wifes mini-disc player.. I ended up with almost a terrabyte of storage space.
I printed out a little Napster logo and wore it around my neck.. Goofy, but the best part was, I could take the vest off and not have to suffer through wearing a stuffy costume all evening..
I got a 3.0 vest because of the pockets, and it is great. Of course, my wife calls it my "man purse". ;)
The flap that covers the zipper has pairs of small weak magnets that keep it closed. I *love* this feature. The magnets are too small to hurt any sort of electronics, and the way those magnets are stitched in to the 3.0 vest, I can't imagine how they could fall out short of a critical failure on an attempt to jump over a barbed wire fence. :)
It's very tough figuring out the sizes without being able to try it on. One good thing, they have a guarentee, so if you get the medium or the large-tall and it doesn't work out, you can send it back and get the right size and you won't be out anything more than shipping costs.
I'm 180cm and fairly slim weighing about 78.5kg.
I own a medium and it fits me great. It comes down about 14cm below my hips (the top of my jeans) which is exactly where I'd expect a jacket to be. It is roomy enough inside for me to wear it with a sweater or with the fleece lining zipped in and no sweater. It is a bit too bulky to try both.
Hope this helps
He's got a family-owned nitch business, and he is a tech-nut. I don't see *anything* wrong with his only postings on Slashdot being about his products.
;)
I'm curious, when you looked at his posting history, were there only six entries? I looked at all of them and didn't see anything that I could objectively think of giving reason for bad vibes...
I replied to the other comment you linked. Don't know the details, but you always have to consider the bad marks against the good. I've never had any trouble with him or his company.
You should obviously get a jacket that you like. If the one you like is at the surplus store or Walmart, then you are in luck. I wanted a jacket with a lot of pockets for my toys, and I love the one I got from SCOTTeVEST (although all the capitals in the name irks me sometimes.
I purchased their products for myself and as gifts. I've communicated with both him and his wife and they were professional and friendly.
I accidentally got on their mailing list twice, and I was easily able to unsubscribe the second address.
I won't discount any of your statements since I don't know the details of your interaction with him, but I just wanted to give my personal opinions regarding SCOTTeVEST.
Scott, I agree with this post. If the brim had enough surface area to be able to charge something it would be fantastic on its own.
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I purchased one of the SCOTTeVEST hats as well, I wore it, but I wasn't entirely satisfied with the fit. It didn't hug my head tightly enough and tended to be very easy to blow off. It was very nicely constructed though. Unfortunately, I managed to lose it in a restaurant.
I have had no problems with it. It actually makes the security checkpoint very convenient. I just stick it in a bucket and send it through the x-ray machine. All I have to worry about is remembering to take off my watch.
Don't know anything about the solar add-on, but I own a 3.0 and I feel it is very durable. Being waterproof helps in the stain department too. :)
I had a problem with the draw strings on the hood when I first got it, but they sent me a replacement hood that has worked just fine..
The quote about contacting the local police station was made by an LAPD spokesperson, not by the RIAA.
His non-recursive C++ version is rather bogus. It works, but it is recursive, it is just taking the stack out of the hands of the compiler and managing it himself. Take a look at some of the cyclic answers in other comments here for a very nice non-recursive version.
Actually, I was surprised that the bottom level of the effects was a faint bang. I would have supposed it went a little further until nothing at all was heard.
But hey, he's a scientist, so he must be right, right?