You're gonna laugh, but I have this theory called "the big shoe theory." If you are wearing big ass shoes, big steel toed boots, you look like less of a target.
If you look like a bit of dandy, joe idiot is going to see you, be mad that he is not you, and be motivated to attack you. Or something. Don't wear polo shirts, khaki pants, i.e. Don't look like you are a different "class" than your attacker.
Obviously, some people are going to attack you anyway, but I've found in my experience that the way you carry yourself has a big difference in whether or not you are perceived as a target.
I've driven around some tough Oakland neighborhoods with my Camaro filled to the brim with high-tech equipment and not felt nervous.
Anyway this technique is easily foiled; just produce a document with randomly increased or shrink Blacked out boxes; or just subsitute all blacked out phrases with "***". Even if it's a photostat you can photoshop it.
I"m not impressed.
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Just zip up a tarball/archive of your site and submit that to slashdot.
I would think the justice department would be able to see if all the images in the cache were dated from that one single event or if they were spread over time. If he's telling the truth, it should be easy to prove.
When I worked there, I poked around and saw something (I forgot the code name) which was Word and Excel in a web browser done with DHTML and script and no activeX, similar to Outlook Web Access. They cancelled it a couple of years ago, but they can bring it back out.
I worked there 3 years. Every company meeting went like this:
Jesus god all mighty we got a lot of money from Office and Windows this year. Here's their breakdown, and here's everybody else, some made money, some didn't, but who cares because Office and Windows really came through!
Now, even though it's just ridiculous, we still expect 15-20% growth from Office and Windows again. And I'll be damned if they don't go out and do it, year, after year, after year.
Trust me, if MS does one thing at all, it's make its numbers.
I would like to be able to query my online banking using a CURL script, but I'm scared to go trying to test it, don't want to "break" my online banking abilities.
Pizza, who cares? But command line tools for online banking would rock.
I've already written some scripts which use curl to go off and query 3 different libraries to see when what books are do, and aggregate and sort the results.
A lot of my old CDs are unplayable now, but that's because they've had beer poured on them and have been stacked outside the case in stacks of 50 for months at a time. I think some of my CD-Rs from 97 will still play.
Anyway, now I'm burning *a lot* of DVD-Rs to fair use archive my favorite TV shows (about 1-2 discs per day, sometimes more). I'm being very careful to keep them in a case all the time, away from dust, not touching them, and I probably won't play them all that much.
I will probably buy a storage server of super cheap hard drives 2-3 TB in a couple years, plus I will probably copy them to higher density media again in a couple years. I'm spending about $0.70/DVD now, and I expect I'll end up with a couple or three hundred DVDs of TV (we'll have high-def on demand soon enough).
I just hope these DVDs last at least 2 years with good care, away from dust and light. Is that reasonable?
I think this phenomenon is temporary. I have recently bought two Hauppauge PVR tuners and am using SageTV to "fair use" archive all my favorite shows on TV. Basically, HDTV is going to obsolete all this anyway.
What will eventually happen is everything the studio has will be available on demand all the time, and you'll subscribe to a monthly all you can eat service.
Why should paying a license fee to the government be inherently better than paying Microsoft? Or, in general, any closed source company?
When I was in Europe, all I could say is "please god Please let me get back to my 500 channels of McDonalds, Wal-Marts, and pure-T drivel, because this shit I"m having to watch over here is BOR-ING."
Government doesn't do a better job than private enterprise.
There was one game that did that (Temple of Elemental Evil). I also do dir c:/s/b > file before and after install to see what changed there. ToEE registered a COM DLL there. I just made a batch file to copy and register it.
Lately I don't even do that, because games that do that are really rare. I just let er rip and if it breaks, then I do a more detailed analysis.
Like I said, sometimes a game won't think it's installed so patches won't apply, but what you can do then is just back up your saves, reinstall the game, apply the patch, restore your saves -- and then blow away the O/S image as usual.
That's why I restore clean (driver, 3rd) image before installing game, dump registry to file, install game, dump registry to file, diff 2 files, produce.reg file which tells game it is installed.
Game doesn't get blown away when restored, and to "reinstall" just run.reg file. Many games don't even need that. Sometimes patches won't install.
Apps such as MSOffice and VStudio are too complicated to install this way. I mentioned all this in my post.
Do yourself a favor: next clean install, apply XP-SP1, then Clean=(Delete LocalSettings\Temp, Windows\Temp, Defrag) & boot Knoppix and backup your partition with Partimage (to a network location mounted with NFS), if needed.
Then apply all Windows Updates, and image again. Then install your drivers, and "core apps" (be very conservative), and tweak your profile a little, and image again.
Then restore one of these three images as needed, and update as needed. Install your games on a separate partition.
It gets tricky if you actually use your XP partition for real work (MSOffice, VStudio) instead of just for video editing and games and use the much superior Debian Sid for web browsing, email, and programming. Unlike games, its hard to put apps on a separate partition and simply "install" them with a.reg file or something. Imaging with 3 or 4 gigs of apps to back up takes a long time and gets to be a pain in the ass.
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I use Caps lock all the time when writing C code, and when entering various CD-kys when installing games.
Anybody got a bittorrent link to the 3.5 terabyte file?
You're gonna laugh, but I have this theory called "the big shoe theory." If you are wearing big ass shoes, big steel toed boots, you look like less of a target.
If you look like a bit of dandy, joe idiot is going to see you, be mad that he is not you, and be motivated to attack you. Or something. Don't wear polo shirts, khaki pants, i.e. Don't look like you are a different "class" than your attacker.
Obviously, some people are going to attack you anyway, but I've found in my experience that the way you carry yourself has a big difference in whether or not you are perceived as a target.
I've driven around some tough Oakland neighborhoods with my Camaro filled to the brim with high-tech equipment and not felt nervous.
I use two extensions: AdBlock and PrefButtons.
How is this flamebait? Metamods, fix this!
No, if it's a photostat you can simply use Photoshop to alter the relative position of the text, and reflow the text.
Slashdot, this is yellow journalism.
Anyway this technique is easily foiled; just produce a document with randomly increased or shrink Blacked out boxes; or just subsitute all blacked out phrases with "***". Even if it's a photostat you can photoshop it.
I"m not impressed.
Just zip up a tarball/archive of your site and submit that to slashdot.
The Browser made me do it!!!
I would think the justice department would be able to see if all the images in the cache were dated from that one single event or if they were spread over time. If he's telling the truth, it should be easy to prove.
A very convenient excuse.
Waiting out an overvalued IPO; goofy news stories about the valley; the cult of the CEO.
I tell you, do the whole thing over again, Flooz and all. People are dumb enough to fall for the whole kit and kaboodle over again.
When I worked there, I poked around and saw something (I forgot the code name) which was Word and Excel in a web browser done with DHTML and script and no activeX, similar to Outlook Web Access. They cancelled it a couple of years ago, but they can bring it back out.
I knew with Google, they'd try to resussicate the entire kit and kaboodle again -- people are dumb enough to buy anything twice.
Excuse me while I get my Marimba Castinet push technology and I'll pay for it with my Flooz.
I worked there 3 years. Every company meeting went like this:
Jesus god all mighty we got a lot of money from Office and Windows this year. Here's their breakdown, and here's everybody else, some made money, some didn't, but who cares because Office and Windows really came through!
Now, even though it's just ridiculous, we still expect 15-20% growth from Office and Windows again. And I'll be damned if they don't go out and do it, year, after year, after year.
Trust me, if MS does one thing at all, it's make its numbers.
I would like to be able to query my online banking using a CURL script, but I'm scared to go trying to test it, don't want to "break" my online banking abilities.
Pizza, who cares? But command line tools for online banking would rock.
I've already written some scripts which use curl to go off and query 3 different libraries to see when what books are do, and aggregate and sort the results.
A lot of my old CDs are unplayable now, but that's because they've had beer poured on them and have been stacked outside the case in stacks of 50 for months at a time. I think some of my CD-Rs from 97 will still play.
Anyway, now I'm burning *a lot* of DVD-Rs to fair use archive my favorite TV shows (about 1-2 discs per day, sometimes more). I'm being very careful to keep them in a case all the time, away from dust, not touching them, and I probably won't play them all that much.
I will probably buy a storage server of super cheap hard drives 2-3 TB in a couple years, plus I will probably copy them to higher density media again in a couple years. I'm spending about $0.70/DVD now, and I expect I'll end up with a couple or three hundred DVDs of TV (we'll have high-def on demand soon enough).
I just hope these DVDs last at least 2 years with good care, away from dust and light. Is that reasonable?
You forgot WAIS. You know veronica was only a fancy front end for gopher right?
.au shows? Anyone?
I do miss gopher though. I was on the internet for about 8 months before the WWW hit. Those were good days.
Remember nemesis.berkey.edu/~gdead to download all the
The eyebrows in the BBC picture give it away.
The rest of it is pretty good, though.
I have a feeling this whole thing on Slashdot is part of an atroturfing campaign by google to hype up the stock prive.
I think this phenomenon is temporary. I have recently bought two Hauppauge PVR tuners and am using SageTV to "fair use" archive all my favorite shows on TV. Basically, HDTV is going to obsolete all this anyway.
What will eventually happen is everything the studio has will be available on demand all the time, and you'll subscribe to a monthly all you can eat service.
Ah, I was in several hotels, in France, Germany, Holland, and Monte Carlo. There was cable, but only hotel-cable.
I did appreciate waking up in the middle of the night due to my jet lag and finding the hard-core porn.
Why should paying a license fee to the government be inherently better than paying Microsoft? Or, in general, any closed source company?
When I was in Europe, all I could say is "please god Please let me get back to my 500 channels of McDonalds, Wal-Marts, and pure-T drivel, because this shit I"m having to watch over here is BOR-ING."
Government doesn't do a better job than private enterprise.
There was one game that did that (Temple of Elemental Evil). I also do dir c: /s/b > file before and after install to see what changed there. ToEE registered a COM DLL there. I just made a batch file to copy and register it.
Lately I don't even do that, because games that do that are really rare. I just let er rip and if it breaks, then I do a more detailed analysis.
Like I said, sometimes a game won't think it's installed so patches won't apply, but what you can do then is just back up your saves, reinstall the game, apply the patch, restore your saves -- and then blow away the O/S image as usual.
That's why I restore clean (driver, 3rd) image before installing game, dump registry to file, install game, dump registry to file, diff 2 files, produce .reg file which tells game it is installed.
.reg file. Many games don't even need that. Sometimes patches won't install.
Game doesn't get blown away when restored, and to "reinstall" just run
Apps such as MSOffice and VStudio are too complicated to install this way. I mentioned all this in my post.
Do yourself a favor: next clean install, apply XP-SP1, then Clean=(Delete LocalSettings\Temp, Windows\Temp, Defrag) & boot Knoppix and backup your partition with Partimage (to a network location mounted with NFS), if needed.
.reg file or something. Imaging with 3 or 4 gigs of apps to back up takes a long time and gets to be a pain in the ass.
Then apply all Windows Updates, and image again. Then install your drivers, and "core apps" (be very conservative), and tweak your profile a little, and image again.
Then restore one of these three images as needed, and update as needed. Install your games on a separate partition.
It gets tricky if you actually use your XP partition for real work (MSOffice, VStudio) instead of just for video editing and games and use the much superior Debian Sid for web browsing, email, and programming. Unlike games, its hard to put apps on a separate partition and simply "install" them with a
That's from The Critic, not the Simpsons.