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Norton Utilities. Interestingly, when I changed the computer's date, it knew about it and said so. The product stopped working, if I remember right. Maybe it looked at modification dates of files, or it can probably as simple as storing (encrypted) the current date.
As for cracking, it'll most probably happen, although with CCS they got lucky and found the keys unencrypted in Xing's Player, I wonder how easy it will be this time..
Microsoft seems to be heading towards its own demise with first Windows XP's device driver scheme, and now this plug-in killing.
I had an experience with the "I'll protect you from bad drivers!" syndrome in Windows ME. A dialog box showed up on startup and said something in the line of "This device driver is not certified by Microsoft and will not be installed." There were 2 buttons: "OK" and "Advanced...", clicking Advanced opened a dialog box that had an option of allowing the driver to be installed anyway. And they couldn't put the option in the main dialog box? I was glad I still had that choice, I have a feeling they are going to remove it in Windows XP. I read once that the "official" device drivers for CD-Writers are going to be crippled to prevent "backup copies" of some CDs, and cracked DivX drivers are going to break too.
Great, upgrade to XP and lose some ability to copy CDs and watch (pirated, I admit) movies.
Along with Microsoft's strategy comes this removal of QT support. And I just upgraded to SP2 yesterday, damn I shouldn't have. I haven't upgraded Outlook 2000 with the patch that prevents the opening of executable attachment (no, they don't open itself automatically, you have to double-click it).
I don't see Microsoft software moving anywhere but downhill from here in terms of flexibility. They're making it more idiot friendly and only idiots would want to use it. And yes, I'm a Windows user, but I think I'll stop upgrading to anything "better" from Microsoft now, and slowly move myself to Linux.
I wonder though if Microsoft can get away with this. It maybe walling itself in limited usability, but it seems most users are willing to follow them into that "jail". One can only hope people stop using their products because they got too proprietary, look at Apple dammit. On the browser-side, Mozilla might be able to emerge as the saviour in this problem.
Eventually trapped and devoured by the bicycle-riders.
Is that a subliminal way of admitting how Christian/God fanaticals are always looking to convert people of other faiths into theirs? I know a few guys who are of these sort, they yapper about how Jesus Christ is the greatest, and they question my religion. "Why do you believe in a bald meditating man?". Fuck you, religion is something personal, it can't be institutionalized. Damn, these people sin against their own parents for God's sake (oh I just said "God", does that make me a believer, I question myself), they say they've converted to Christianity and hope their parents will someday also repent from their sins. What sins? The sin of having another religion, from what I can comprend. One day I'm going to lash out against them, one day.
Why do I believe in a bald meditating man? Why do you believe in some bearded guy who got nailed to a tree? What makes the Bible a more truthful source of information than the teachings of Buddha?
How would upgrading your BIOS affect the PSU? They're connected only by electricity wires, and I would be surprised if the BIOS actually has control of more than the signal wire used to tell the PSU to full power on from Access Standby" Mode. It would have at least made more sense if it was a capacitor on the motherboard, although I don't think there's a BIOS program that has enough control to be able to prevent stray over-voltages from blowing parts of your computer. Such Gagdgets may exist, but programmable?
Bah, drugged out after a trip to the dentist.
Me go home now.
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Linus was once asked, what if Bill Gates started porting programs like Office for Linux? He said "Then I would have won.", meaning Linux was finally big enough that Microsoft started catering to it.
Don't know if the same goes for the browser, I don't even think any self-respecting Linux user would use IE on Linux, and if they did, they'd still have some amount of clue to escape out of the "internet" that is MSN. Microsoft probably doesn't want a half-win either, it's a half win because, yes, they got the surfer to use IE, but he's still running Linux! Not the latest version of Windows eXPloit!
Not that an empty hard disk would be able to host a server that can spit out that HTML...
Ooh, that would be a neat hack; own the server, setup a ramdisk, move yourself into it, setup a HTTP server (in RAM), kill all running programs (that's "take over control of the computer from Windows") and format the disk.. woah, pull that and I'll be impressed.:).. reboot the machine and everything's gone.
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It would be a nice idea, I remember reading a reply to a similar idea as "It wouldn't be nice netiquette if you messed with other people's computer, even if you mean well.".. well I would say if someone writes the anti-worm, they can just tell the clueless admin "Sorry I had to do this, since you were too clueless to patch your own server."..
I managed to do this with JavaScript and HTML, but I found it to be very dependant on JavaScript, and when I mangled a single line in my JavaScript file, my whole site would break. I was making a journal site, and I wanted to make a "Previous" and "Next"-type of links, but couldn't be bothered to do it manually. So I created a JavaScript array of the diary entries and saved it into an external JS file, and had each html file access the script and call the appopriate functions to create the "Previous" and "Next" links. document.write() is my friend.. I also created a function to write A HREF tags, because I didn't feel like writing ONMOUSEOVER="window.status='text';" ONMOUSEOUT="window.status='';" over and over again. (I know how lame some people think that "hiding of the URL" is. But the function adds the URL to the end of that custom status line:) Of course that meant that any spider that went into my page saw no HREF links, unless they were bored/agressive enough to implement a JavaScript interpreter.
Yeah, that's one of the problems with this idea. If it has to be interpreted client-side, won't it just break the search engines? I wonder if Google or AltaVista has the computing power to parse all the sites that might use Curl. The other problem is of course of browser support, it has to e on IE if it wants to be broadly used. Hopefully it's like Flash and the plugin is downloaded automatically, much to the annoyance of those on 56k.
Now I've found PHP (and a free hosting service which supports it). So it's server-generated content for me. I've seen abuses of PHP though, because HTML can be created in a for-loop, you get a waste of bandwidth where all the TDs of a TABLE have a WIDTH attribute. In reality only the columns of a single table row needs that attribute, the colums of the other rows follow the WIDTH attribute of the columns of that single row. Actually that sites just needs some good CSS.
How much bandwidth did I save? Not a lot, I think, with that much extra overhead. But for bigger sites with repeat viewers it would be worth it.
*.DOC files begin with the hex bytes D0 CF. Just do a search for it, and then strip everything before the D0 CF, or copy everything from the D0 CF to a new file, and you can open it in Word. Hopefully Word will warn you if the doc file has any macro viruses... considering the fact the file did come from a computer whose user doesn't know it has a virus.:).. or just open Word first (with no files) and make sure the option to warn is turned on.
I've got some files, but they're not very interesting. Got two with meeting notes of a club called "Daughters of the Nile", written by one of their "Queens".. if you're reading this, yes you have a virus, your majesty.
Well I don't drive, so that's not a big problem, but if I did, I'd probably schedule stops for naps...
Fitting it to a "normal" life is hard though, you have to sleep at 8 AM, that's still ok, but 12PM? I guess that's early lunch.. really early. But at 4 PM? Or 8 PM and 12 AM, doesn't fit when you're out partying.. the solution is maybe not to go to parties. The schedule is for Uni students, who should always be studying anyway!! (take me as an example, I should be studying at the moment.. alas!)
Geez, I hate it when people bash Outlook for a virus like this that would infect even clueless Eudora users. Even hotmail users aren't immune to this! It's an executable file that you have to tell the e-mail client to run. Yes Outlook asks this, it asks unless at some point in the past you turn off the option "Always ask before opening files of this type." I turn it off for *.jpg and *.txt, and I'm clueful enough to have file extensions turned on. Maybe Eudora doesn't allow straight execution of the file, maybe you have to save it first, but if a PHB saved it to disk and executed the file anyway, he'd still get infected. Maybe you think Eudora is better when you compare it to Outlook, but, damn, I'd hate it if I - instead of simply double-clicking the attachment icon under the email body - have to save the file, open Windows Explorer and then run the file. I like what Outlook offers me. And because I have a clue, I don't just run unknown EXEs, the problem is not Outlook itself, it's the clueless users.
Of course you claim Outlook has the buffer-overflow bug. Well thank god there isn't many script-kiddies nowadays who knows how to exploit a buffer overflow.. "d00d, wh4tz a$$eM8l3r c0d3?!?"
I remember finding a Windows virus which was also a trojan horse.. it would infect all EXEs in the harddisk (it was an exe.. These new VBScripts aren't really viruses, yeah right, it's a wonder that those who wrote them still got arrested, when its the people who got the virus who are too dumb to listen to Microsoft's "Don't open any unknown attachment.").. a friend got the trojan horse, and it was persistent, killing it through "End Task" (like how it can work with other non-viral trojan horses) wouldn't work. I thought to myself, "Ah, taking care of this will be easy.", executed the exe, and blam, I saw it writing to my EXEs like crazy. Luckily I found the original virus on the net, and the virus-writer had included a program that would remove the virus from an infected computer.. otherwise, I probably would've had to reformat the disk..:o It was a nice virus, it had a "Stop NATO bombings in Yugoslavia!" message...
Hehe..
Who wants to do a spoof of Hitchhiker's Guide to The Galaxy (may DNA rest in peace) elevator system?
I would, but I don't have the time.. maybe later.
I was going to say a comment similar to that. So what, is this stupid company trying to patent the idea of data transfer through cable now? (I was going to say "patent the internet, but data transfer predates the internet, besides the internet was created by Al Gore). Fuck them, I wish I could I firebomb their office.
Talk about stupid courts too.. stupid, stupid. We need the IETF, RFC-editors and maybe W3C too to say something about people trying to patent their work (hyperlinking?)... if I were Tim-Berners Lee, I'd be pretty mad right now...
Three to five years?!? What makes you think they won't be a Pentium... let's say "8" by that time? (considering Intel's marketing guys keep the lame naming scheme).
Actually, I remember being asked what processor I had by a non-techie, I said "Pentium 100", which obviously mean Pentium generation 1, 100 MHz. He/she didn't get it, having heard the latest generation of Pentium was the 3rd..
I now have a Duron. What's that? 686? 786? "The budget model of a P-III compatible." or... "Pentium II with MMX+, 3DNow and 3DNow+" (according to wCPUid).
What makes you think it's as easy as that for those being opressed to just say "Sorry, I don't like it here with your kind of government, I'd like to leave and go to the US now."?
I actually LOL'ed to your comment!!! A good one.
Hmm, how do I get the ability to moderate? I remember a checkbox somewhere... oh well not that I should waste more time on the net.
I was at a presentation CmdrTaco gave when he told us the origin of the name "slashdot"..
Try reading the "word" "http://slashdot.org".. h t t p colon slash slash slash dot dot org.
He had all sorts of jokes in the presentation, what a guy!
If you're really that interetesd, try Linux from Scratch. You build everything from zero, it's great, it got me learning about what goes where. It does take a lot of time though, and the "book" only goes as far as explaining how to get a default Linux system running, which, without any user apps, is kinda useless. It doesn't even have X. The network works, but it doesn't mention browsers or mail programs, the rest, you have to do yourself. Although they do have hints files, which you can consult when you want to install neat things such as X, Gnome, or what-not.
ED-209 (the real one from Robocop) was cool!!! I remember making a lego model of it, it was almost in a comparable scale to minifigs (well it was actually twice as tall as a minifig), I managed to construct moveable arms on it too.. hehe "ED-209!!"..
Ah nostalgia..
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As for cracking, it'll most probably happen, although with CCS they got lucky and found the keys unencrypted in Xing's Player, I wonder how easy it will be this time..
I had an experience with the "I'll protect you from bad drivers!" syndrome in Windows ME. A dialog box showed up on startup and said something in the line of "This device driver is not certified by Microsoft and will not be installed." There were 2 buttons: "OK" and "Advanced...", clicking Advanced opened a dialog box that had an option of allowing the driver to be installed anyway. And they couldn't put the option in the main dialog box? I was glad I still had that choice, I have a feeling they are going to remove it in Windows XP. I read once that the "official" device drivers for CD-Writers are going to be crippled to prevent "backup copies" of some CDs, and cracked DivX drivers are going to break too.
Great, upgrade to XP and lose some ability to copy CDs and watch (pirated, I admit) movies.
Along with Microsoft's strategy comes this removal of QT support. And I just upgraded to SP2 yesterday, damn I shouldn't have. I haven't upgraded Outlook 2000 with the patch that prevents the opening of executable attachment (no, they don't open itself automatically, you have to double-click it).
I don't see Microsoft software moving anywhere but downhill from here in terms of flexibility. They're making it more idiot friendly and only idiots would want to use it. And yes, I'm a Windows user, but I think I'll stop upgrading to anything "better" from Microsoft now, and slowly move myself to Linux.
I wonder though if Microsoft can get away with this. It maybe walling itself in limited usability, but it seems most users are willing to follow them into that "jail". One can only hope people stop using their products because they got too proprietary, look at Apple dammit. On the browser-side, Mozilla might be able to emerge as the saviour in this problem.
Is that a subliminal way of admitting how Christian/God fanaticals are always looking to convert people of other faiths into theirs? I know a few guys who are of these sort, they yapper about how Jesus Christ is the greatest, and they question my religion. "Why do you believe in a bald meditating man?". Fuck you, religion is something personal, it can't be institutionalized. Damn, these people sin against their own parents for God's sake (oh I just said "God", does that make me a believer, I question myself), they say they've converted to Christianity and hope their parents will someday also repent from their sins. What sins? The sin of having another religion, from what I can comprend. One day I'm going to lash out against them, one day.
Why do I believe in a bald meditating man? Why do you believe in some bearded guy who got nailed to a tree? What makes the Bible a more truthful source of information than the teachings of Buddha?
Trust me to be trolling.
Bah, drugged out after a trip to the dentist. Me go home now.
Don't know if the same goes for the browser, I don't even think any self-respecting Linux user would use IE on Linux, and if they did, they'd still have some amount of clue to escape out of the "internet" that is MSN. Microsoft probably doesn't want a half-win either, it's a half win because, yes, they got the surfer to use IE, but he's still running Linux! Not the latest version of Windows eXPloit!
Ooh, that would be a neat hack; own the server, setup a ramdisk, move yourself into it, setup a HTTP server (in RAM), kill all running programs (that's "take over control of the computer from Windows") and format the disk.. woah, pull that and I'll be impressed. :) .. reboot the machine and everything's gone.
It would be a nice idea, I remember reading a reply to a similar idea as "It wouldn't be nice netiquette if you messed with other people's computer, even if you mean well.".. well I would say if someone writes the anti-worm, they can just tell the clueless admin "Sorry I had to do this, since you were too clueless to patch your own server."..
Yeah, that's one of the problems with this idea. If it has to be interpreted client-side, won't it just break the search engines? I wonder if Google or AltaVista has the computing power to parse all the sites that might use Curl. The other problem is of course of browser support, it has to e on IE if it wants to be broadly used. Hopefully it's like Flash and the plugin is downloaded automatically, much to the annoyance of those on 56k.
Now I've found PHP (and a free hosting service which supports it). So it's server-generated content for me. I've seen abuses of PHP though, because HTML can be created in a for-loop, you get a waste of bandwidth where all the TDs of a TABLE have a WIDTH attribute. In reality only the columns of a single table row needs that attribute, the colums of the other rows follow the WIDTH attribute of the columns of that single row. Actually that sites just needs some good CSS.
How much bandwidth did I save? Not a lot, I think, with that much extra overhead. But for bigger sites with repeat viewers it would be worth it.
I've got some files, but they're not very interesting. Got two with meeting notes of a club called "Daughters of the Nile", written by one of their "Queens".. if you're reading this, yes you have a virus, your majesty.
Fitting it to a "normal" life is hard though, you have to sleep at 8 AM, that's still ok, but 12PM? I guess that's early lunch.. really early. But at 4 PM? Or 8 PM and 12 AM, doesn't fit when you're out partying.. the solution is maybe not to go to parties. The schedule is for Uni students, who should always be studying anyway!! (take me as an example, I should be studying at the moment.. alas!)
Of course you claim Outlook has the buffer-overflow bug. Well thank god there isn't many script-kiddies nowadays who knows how to exploit a buffer overflow.. "d00d, wh4tz a$$eM8l3r c0d3?!?"
I remember finding a Windows virus which was also a trojan horse.. it would infect all EXEs in the harddisk (it was an exe.. These new VBScripts aren't really viruses, yeah right, it's a wonder that those who wrote them still got arrested, when its the people who got the virus who are too dumb to listen to Microsoft's "Don't open any unknown attachment.").. a friend got the trojan horse, and it was persistent, killing it through "End Task" (like how it can work with other non-viral trojan horses) wouldn't work. I thought to myself, "Ah, taking care of this will be easy.", executed the exe, and blam, I saw it writing to my EXEs like crazy. Luckily I found the original virus on the net, and the virus-writer had included a program that would remove the virus from an infected computer.. otherwise, I probably would've had to reformat the disk.. :o It was a nice virus, it had a "Stop NATO bombings in Yugoslavia!" message...
I find this E2 node about sleeping 2 hours per day really interesting.. anyone with maybe experience got any comments on it?
Hehe.. Who wants to do a spoof of Hitchhiker's Guide to The Galaxy (may DNA rest in peace) elevator system? I would, but I don't have the time.. maybe later.
Talk about stupid courts too.. stupid, stupid. We need the IETF, RFC-editors and maybe W3C too to say something about people trying to patent their work (hyperlinking?)... if I were Tim-Berners Lee, I'd be pretty mad right now...
Wasn'it Arthur C. Clarke who said that?
Three to five years?!? What makes you think they won't be a Pentium... let's say "8" by that time? (considering Intel's marketing guys keep the lame naming scheme). Actually, I remember being asked what processor I had by a non-techie, I said "Pentium 100", which obviously mean Pentium generation 1, 100 MHz. He/she didn't get it, having heard the latest generation of Pentium was the 3rd.. I now have a Duron. What's that? 686? 786? "The budget model of a P-III compatible." or... "Pentium II with MMX+, 3DNow and 3DNow+" (according to wCPUid).
Here's a good page (paragraph?) about taurine.. http://www.graylab.ac.uk/cgi-bin/omd?query=taurine
you want FREEDOM come here
What makes you think it's as easy as that for those being opressed to just say "Sorry, I don't like it here with your kind of government, I'd like to leave and go to the US now."?
Not that you'd welcome them to stay anyway.
I actually LOL'ed to your comment!!! A good one. Hmm, how do I get the ability to moderate? I remember a checkbox somewhere... oh well not that I should waste more time on the net.
I was at a presentation CmdrTaco gave when he told us the origin of the name "slashdot".. Try reading the "word" "http://slashdot.org" .. h t t p colon slash slash slash dot dot org.
He had all sorts of jokes in the presentation, what a guy!
I think it's Mrs. SUV Soccer-Mom nowadays..
If you're really that interetesd, try Linux from Scratch. You build everything from zero, it's great, it got me learning about what goes where. It does take a lot of time though, and the "book" only goes as far as explaining how to get a default Linux system running, which, without any user apps, is kinda useless. It doesn't even have X. The network works, but it doesn't mention browsers or mail programs, the rest, you have to do yourself. Although they do have hints files, which you can consult when you want to install neat things such as X, Gnome, or what-not.
ED-209 (the real one from Robocop) was cool!!! I remember making a lego model of it, it was almost in a comparable scale to minifigs (well it was actually twice as tall as a minifig), I managed to construct moveable arms on it too.. hehe "ED-209!!".. Ah nostalgia..
well it's been "mounted" (go to link on previous article) on the failed Lander.. /mnt/hdc0 ?