Yeah, like Visual Studio, service pack 6. Overwrote some files in the system directory, and messed things up last week. I had to find them on another system, and re-install the right ones by hand.
The problem is your analogy doesn't quite work. If you read the problems some people have had with paypal, you will find that not only have they done stuff with the money in "their" account, but have also taken money out of the person's bank account.
I would never use paypal unless I had a separate bank account for them to use, and that doesn't have any overdraft allowance, etc. So, even if paypal wants to try to suck money out, there isn't anything for them to get.
Small advertisement for blogging software: http://www.plogworld.net/ It has bayesian/IP filtering by default, and there are a number of plugins for those people who have trouble with spammers. image authentication, keyword, hostname filtering, etc.
As long as you change it to alsa-utils and alsaconf, I agree.
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WebWasher (Windows only) blocks whatever you are talking about, and a half dozen other ads on that page.
It is great software, and just changed to "donation-ware" the other day, so go download it.
More "techy" than other blockers I have seen, and so is very customizable. I haven't seen a popup or ad in years (other than the coffee porn posted the other day on/.)
I had horrible service with Lingo. Although, I did only use them for a month before I cancelled it.
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Yes, I make a habit of stopping by the manufacturing floor to see how the guys are doing and if there is anything that annoys them or something that they wish worked differently.
If I don't stop by, they never approach me with requests, but when I actively seek them out, I get feedback about changing a comment, making a test longer, shorter, bigger buttons, etc.
I am fortunate to be able to do this I think, because my boss doesn't really know what I am doing, so I can take time to learn PHP/mySQL and add new features and apps to our corporate intranet to improve productivity, in a relatively short period of time, but lots of other guys figure they don't have time to do it, and so nothing ever gets any better.
I guess I have to agree, but I forward my email from my companies exchange server to a linux server, where I can then check it in pine. So, it works me, although everyone else thinks I am crazy.
Given that the used range of the "rating field" goes from 3.5 to 4.5 stars, it is pretty hard to tell from this review why I would pick one over the other.
I was in Accelent's UART code, and apparently, part of this section is copied from Microsoft's code. I thought the comments were amusing, though I suppose not many people will see this post a day late...
/* This next comment is from the ODO code, as is the following logic.
It is believed that this may provide some primative support for
asynchronous detection of a PDA being inserted into a cradle.
The comment about CD and DSR is the most bewildering. - RL
In a real null-modem cable, DSR is connected to CD. Unfortunately,
many cables lying around do not have this. Thus, we are dealing with CD
and not DSR here.
*/
When I was a teaching assistant, I think we thought that the TAs should be able to do the test in half the time of the students, and the professor: 25%.
In Microsoft's WinCE IrDA driver it explicitly mentions why they aren't following the IrDA spec, to hack a fix for, "those stupid HP printers". Ironically, enough, I was testing an HP printer at the time, and wondering why CE wasn't following the spec, when the printer was. I think that is one of the only comments I have seen in the WinCE source. Presumably, they have been filtered out, unless they really just never comment anywhere.
I hadn't used this camera in a while, and not on my current computer. My first shot was to compile a new module for my kernel: Quickcam BW Video For Linux (VIDEO_BWQCAM) I downloaded gqcam and ran it, but it had trouble getting anything but lines.
So, then I downloaded qcam, and removed the bw_qcam module, as the app uses the parallel port directly, without a driver. Tada. I got some icky grainy black and white pictures, just like I always remembered... (:
The xqcam app is probably having trouble with my zip drive on the same port, so I had to unplug the camera every time I shut down the app.
I don't have URLs for the programs, since I am a lazy debian user, so I just clicked on the packages, but presumably they are easy to fine. I know people talk about using SANE, which is compatible with the black and white quickcams also.
I have gotten a number of emails from people who didn't appreciate my changing their image (or their background -- that was a good one, couldn't read the person's site at all)
# Need additional rewrite for the directory without a slash, because otherwise # the (.*) matches the whole URL. There is probably a better way to do this # but this works RewriteRule html_gifs$ http://www.geocities.com/last_id_in_the_world/html _gifs/ [L,R=permanent]
# People who don't get it... RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://www.playahead.com/GroupInfo.aspx.*$ [NC,OR] RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://www.xanga.com/private/home.aspx$ [NC,OR] RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://www.kindertent.nl/template.php?id=278628&t id=38$ [NC,OR] RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://nuvoleinviaggio.blog.excite.it/$ [NC] RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.geocities.com/last_id_in_the_world/html _gifs/funny_looking.gif [L,R=permanent]
# People who don't get it. -- these people are especially annoying, # as apparently mozilla-- doesn't set the referrer is not set when using style sheets... #RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^$ [OR] # RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://www.xanga.com/home.aspx?user=da_forg3tabl3 _1.*$ [NC] RewriteRule backgrounds/blue-faded.jpg/~jondaley/html_gifs/funny_looking.gif [L,R=permanent]
# uncomment this if you want people who don't have their referrer # set to also be redirected RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^$ [OR]
# If linked to from somewhere else, forward them to geocities RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://www.snurgle.org/.*$ [NC]
# Forward all requests, since we are within the html_gifs directory RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.geocities.com/last_id_in_the_world/html _gifs/$1 [R=permanent]
Um. done holding your breath yet? I forget the names of the aircraft companies, one which says, if the pilot and computer disagree, the pilot is always right, and the other which says, the computer is right.
Casualties have been statistically the same for the last 10 years.
Sorry I can't provide links -- this was from a professor in college who used to work for Boeing(?).
He also told us about the plane that wasn't allowed to be entirely computer controlled due to government policies, so the pilot got to push the brakes after the plane taxied.
As pointed out by numerous people, this fix only works in nightly builds of FF, or pre-1.0 releases. If you go into about:config every time you start firefox, and click on the setting to make it say false (ie. clicking twice since it is already set) will set the setting correctly.
That is interesting. I have had the telemarketers fall all over themselves (all 4 of them who have called since the DNC went into place) to apologize, and they are so sorry that my name got on their database, and they are sure it won't ever happen again, etc.
I reported the first two, but the last two wouldn't give me enough information -- so they got away with it -- that's my only complaint -- the telemarketer can just hang up, and unless you have caller id, or are willing to pay your phone company to trace the call, you are mostly out of luck.
I am confused by all the people who are saying that the legislation doesn't work. I signed up on my state's do-not-call list a couple years ago, and signed up on the netional registry whenever that showed up. I think we have gotten 4 telemarketer calls in that time.
We still get the political/police/etc/that are unfortunately allowed by the FTC.
My wife did stop answering the phone a couple weeks ago because we got a whole rash of calls with no one on the line, but that stopped, I am not sure what that was about - they didn't leave messages either.
My theory (along with spam) is that people don't uncheck the box that says, "I give you permission to call/email me whenever you want, and sell my info to everyone".
Right. Doesn't really seem like a problem to me. In the other thread about what to do about unpatched pirated systems is an interesting question, but our company has people calling up who bought our software from a vendor who pirated it from us. We have provided support, since we are nice, but I don't think people would really expect us to provide support for software that they didn't buy from us. Granted, they didn't know they were buying pirated software...
I suppose this is redundant, and maybe I should just say mod parent up, but rednip has got a good point.
Hopefully, people would be smart enough to not ignore the password reset thing, but even if they did, it is probably too late, since the sniffer would be waiting for the email, and could presumably change the password before the victim would, and then when the victim clicks on the link, the bank would say not valid, and the customer would then assume it was junk, and doesn't realize his password was changed.
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Yeah, like Visual Studio, service pack 6. Overwrote some files in the system directory, and messed things up last week. I had to find them on another system, and re-install the right ones by hand.
The problem is your analogy doesn't quite work. If you read the problems some people have had with paypal, you will find that not only have they done stuff with the money in "their" account, but have also taken money out of the person's bank account.
I would never use paypal unless I had a separate bank account for them to use, and that doesn't have any overdraft allowance, etc. So, even if paypal wants to try to suck money out, there isn't anything for them to get.
Small advertisement for blogging software: http://www.plogworld.net/
It has bayesian/IP filtering by default, and there are a number of plugins for those people who have trouble with spammers.
image authentication, keyword, hostname filtering, etc.
$.50 is an expensive ad for google. I don't even think you can pay them that much for a click.
Much more common is $.05 or $.15.
As long as you change it to alsa-utils and alsaconf, I agree.
WebWasher (Windows only) blocks whatever you are talking about, and a half dozen other ads on that page.
/.)
It is great software, and just changed to "donation-ware" the other day, so go download it.
More "techy" than other blockers I have seen, and so is very customizable. I haven't seen a popup or ad in years (other than the coffee porn posted the other day on
I had horrible service with Lingo. Although, I did only use them for a month before I cancelled it. a blog entry about lingo
Yes, I make a habit of stopping by the manufacturing floor to see how the guys are doing and if there is anything that annoys them or something that they wish worked differently.
If I don't stop by, they never approach me with requests, but when I actively seek them out, I get feedback about changing a comment, making a test longer, shorter, bigger buttons, etc.
I am fortunate to be able to do this I think, because my boss doesn't really know what I am doing, so I can take time to learn PHP/mySQL and add new features and apps to our corporate intranet to improve productivity, in a relatively short period of time, but lots of other guys figure they don't have time to do it, and so nothing ever gets any better.
It is too bad the author's summary is missing from the page. But, google has a cache.
I guess I have to agree, but I forward my email from my companies exchange server to a linux server, where I can then check it in pine. So, it works me, although everyone else thinks I am crazy.
Given that the used range of the "rating field" goes from 3.5 to 4.5 stars, it is pretty hard to tell from this review why I would pick one over the other.
When I was a teaching assistant, I think we thought that the TAs should be able to do the test in half the time of the students, and the professor: 25%.
I mentioned this the other day, but it also applies here.
In Microsoft's WinCE IrDA driver it explicitly mentions why they aren't following the IrDA spec, to hack a fix for, "those stupid HP printers". Ironically, enough, I was testing an HP printer at the time, and wondering why CE wasn't following the spec, when the printer was. I think that is one of the only comments I have seen in the WinCE source. Presumably, they have been filtered out, unless they really just never comment anywhere.
I hadn't used this camera in a while, and not on my current computer. My first shot was to compile a new module for my kernel: Quickcam BW Video For Linux (VIDEO_BWQCAM)
I downloaded gqcam and ran it, but it had trouble getting anything but lines.
So, then I downloaded qcam, and removed the bw_qcam module, as the app uses the parallel port directly, without a driver.
Tada. I got some icky grainy black and white pictures, just like I always remembered... (:
The xqcam app is probably having trouble with my zip drive on the same port, so I had to unplug the camera every time I shut down the app.
I don't have URLs for the programs, since I am a lazy debian user, so I just clicked on the packages, but presumably they are easy to fine. I know people talk about using SANE, which is compatible with the black and white quickcams also.
I have used an old Logitech Quickcam (parallel port interface).
The quality isn't great, but it works.
Here is my .htaccess for doing just this.
l _gifs/ [L,R=permanent]
t id=38$ [NC,OR]l _gifs/funny_looking.gif [L,R=permanent]
3 _1.*$ [NC] /~jondaley/html_gifs/funny_looking.gif [L,R=permanent]
l _gifs/$1 [R=permanent]
I have gotten a number of emails from people who didn't appreciate my changing their image (or their background -- that was a good one, couldn't read the person's site at all)
# Need additional rewrite for the directory without a slash, because otherwise
# the (.*) matches the whole URL. There is probably a better way to do this
# but this works
RewriteRule html_gifs$ http://www.geocities.com/last_id_in_the_world/htm
# People who don't get it...
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://www.playahead.com/GroupInfo.aspx.*$ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://www.xanga.com/private/home.aspx$ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://www.kindertent.nl/template.php?id=278628&
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://nuvoleinviaggio.blog.excite.it/$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.geocities.com/last_id_in_the_world/htm
# People who don't get it. -- these people are especially annoying,
# as apparently mozilla-- doesn't set the referrer is not set when using style sheets...
#RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^$ [OR]
# RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://www.xanga.com/home.aspx?user=da_forg3tabl
RewriteRule backgrounds/blue-faded.jpg
# uncomment this if you want people who don't have their referrer
# set to also be redirected
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^$ [OR]
# If linked to from somewhere else, forward them to geocities
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://www.snurgle.org/.*$ [NC]
# Forward all requests, since we are within the html_gifs directory
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.geocities.com/last_id_in_the_world/htm
"security" device?
http://rfidanalysis.org/
Um. done holding your breath yet? I forget the names of the aircraft companies, one which says, if the pilot and computer disagree, the pilot is always right, and the other which says, the computer is right.
Casualties have been statistically the same for the last 10 years.
Sorry I can't provide links -- this was from a professor in college who used to work for Boeing(?).
He also told us about the plane that wasn't allowed to be entirely computer controlled due to government policies, so the pilot got to push the brakes after the plane taxied.
As pointed out by numerous people, this fix only works in nightly builds of FF, or pre-1.0 releases.
If you go into about:config every time you start firefox, and click on the setting to make it say false (ie. clicking twice since it is already set) will set the setting correctly.
Bad bug indeed.
That is interesting. I have had the telemarketers fall all over themselves (all 4 of them who have called since the DNC went into place) to apologize, and they are so sorry that my name got on their database, and they are sure it won't ever happen again, etc.
I reported the first two, but the last two wouldn't give me enough information -- so they got away with it -- that's my only complaint -- the telemarketer can just hang up, and unless you have caller id, or are willing to pay your phone company to trace the call, you are mostly out of luck.
I am confused by all the people who are saying that the legislation doesn't work. I signed up on my state's do-not-call list a couple years ago, and signed up on the netional registry whenever that showed up. I think we have gotten 4 telemarketer calls in that time.
We still get the political/police/etc/that are unfortunately allowed by the FTC.
My wife did stop answering the phone a couple weeks ago because we got a whole rash of calls with no one on the line, but that stopped, I am not sure what that was about - they didn't leave messages either.
My theory (along with spam) is that people don't uncheck the box that says, "I give you permission to call/email me whenever you want, and sell my info to everyone".
No medal required, just mod points.
Right. Doesn't really seem like a problem to me. In the other thread about what to do about unpatched pirated systems is an interesting question, but our company has people calling up who bought our software from a vendor who pirated it from us. We have provided support, since we are nice, but I don't think people would really expect us to provide support for software that they didn't buy from us. Granted, they didn't know they were buying pirated software...
I suppose this is redundant, and maybe I should just say mod parent up, but rednip has got a good point.
Hopefully, people would be smart enough to not ignore the password reset thing, but even if they did, it is probably too late, since the sniffer would be waiting for the email, and could presumably change the password before the victim would, and then when the victim clicks on the link, the bank would say not valid, and the customer would then assume it was junk, and doesn't realize his password was changed.