Since most spyware piggybacks on Internet Explorer and passes it's info over port 80 you can put as many firewalls as you want, it won't help a thing. Zonealarm won't detect the "intrusion".
Well, the person who wrote that in the article (the italic quotation) never ever had his packets pass through the customs when arriving. I once ordered a ThinkGeek packet for a whole development team (which added up a lot) and the customs were about 10%.
So whoever talks about a loophole, doesn't know the harshness of Luxembourgish customs. (I think they have nothing better to do)
Proud user of GNUcleus. Really fine client. Don't need more, and about 80% of the stuff I want to find can be found quite easily.
Since GNUcleus is the standard P2P tool I chose for my home network, my sister has to use it instead of anything she ever heard of. (Bearshare, Morpheus, Kazaa and whatever she wanted...don't recall) She is into alternative music, and I though she might be disappointed. Well, she is *not*. She is very happy with what she can get. She never complains. So the more peope participate in Gnutella, the better! Promote it!:-))
Strangely enough yesterday I talked to a Bulgarian friend of mine. He has cable and he was leeching MP3'S (don't know with what software, didn't ask). So I asked him if he liked the high speeds. To my suprise he told me he was on 56KBps modem. Why? Simple: the cable is paying per megabyte, the phone is slower but is very cheap overnight: so no problem leaving the machine on all night for heavy downloads.
I summary: he uses his cable to be online-always-but-not-much traffic, and he uses the modem for downloads. It's the cheapest for him.
I for myself am on ADSL, which is very expensive in my country (compared to the neighbouring countries), but at least it's unmetered (unlike in neighbouring countries)
Now if my Bulgarian friend had (has?) KaZaa installed, this means he will be screwed indeed...because how could he turn off the scumware while he is on Cable? Just think of it...
After a year of heavy usage on my Psion (I use it all the time for all sorts of tasks), it seemed to behave eratically. Turning itself off suddenly, battery status indicator plainly wrong. After backing up my data (which I tend to do once in a while anyway), I did a hard-reset to it. It works fine again now (uploaded my stuff again of course). I suspect that the internal filesystem got fragmented/corrupted or something like that, because I came down from 25% disk usage to 8% disk usage. Not sure.
If your Palm is not phyically dead (I mean a hardware failure), try to reset it (usually with a pen).
Hope this helps...of course we're talking about different platforms. (I don't really like Palms, hardware and software wise)
Say one of the Math Teachers is hording mp3's on a network drive, said operator discovers this, reports it, but said teacher is best buds with said supervisor. You can either cuss and let it go, or do something about it and get let go.
No, you haven't learnd your lesson: that goes like...
rf -Rf/home/teacher/mp3/*
Teacher whines to you
Look in excuse cardfile: Solar Flares trashing musically inclined files
Teacher whines to supervisor
Put 20000V current to door
*fizzzzzle*
Apply for promotion
On a serious side: I admin a small network here as a real BOFH. It's the best way: you get http, https, pop3 and smtp and for the rest they have to nicely ask... I am reasonable: meanwhile ICQ (only chat) is allowed and so is IRC. But that really is about it. Oh, and I don't allow people to install random clients that I didn't evaluate before. Works like a charm:-)
Wow! I didn't realise it was that bad over in the US! How can any non-tech worker survive in such a economical climate?
For comparison: I live in Luxembourg, which is probably one of the most expensive places to live in the EU (I said "living", I wan't talking about alcohol and tobacco). For a bit less than $150000, you get a nice 2 bedroom apartment. (condo as you call it, I had to look it up). Honestly as a single guy I cannot ever afford to think of a house. Houses start from about $300000 here, which is insane. Most people that buy houses here are married: one works for the mortgage the other to pay for the house.
My cousin, who lives in Antwerp just bought a *house* for about $100000.
I was honestly thinking that I lived in a horribly expensive country and you just proved me wrong:-) Thanks for posting, I appreciate the input.
Thank you for sharing. Nice career...That did go *fast*. Probably due to the dot-com boom. So it just seems to me that I'm "okay" with my level of experience. Another boom is not going to happen anytime soon, so I suspect I'll never reach those heights. Not that I complain: I have a nice life...and money isn't everything.
Hmmmm.... You know, that Audi TT is possible, it's just all about priorities. I make 27k EUR (net) per year and am the proud owner of an Audi TT. Of course I still have to pay the thing for the next 3 years. However the loan brings me a nice tax-cut, so it's all good. Besides, it's worth it:-)
For the rest, I plan buying a small apartment in the next few years (putting aside about 33% of my salary each month) and am still happy with my old computers too. Being happy with small things is perhaps one of the best ways to keep partially happy.
I really want to know how Americans calculate their income. I'm not paid very well and I'm aware of it, but I never felt of it as "badly pay". The numbers I see here are just plainly astronomical in my eyes.
According to my calculations I earn about 35000 gross a year (makes about 27500 net per year). For the record, I have my CS degree and about three years of work experience in various domains (including Java, C++, Delphi, Oracle, and I could get on) Oh, and I live in one of the wealthiest country of the EU.
I do realise they were talkig about averages, so my three years experience do not count much compared to a 20 year experienced Guru. Why is there such a huge gap? It can't come all from the fact that you have to take your own health insurance and stuff like that. Because otherwhise I go to the US and get rich quick.;-)
Oh, I once had that...Okay, I was only driving 160kmh, but I saw a grey flash passing and I just had time enough to realise that there was a yellow logo (didn't even see the horse) on it. When I said to myself "hey, that was a Ferrari", it was already out of sight.
I know German police is fairly harsh as soon as there are restrictions. I honestly feel that is not a bad thing, because most people are rekless on the road. (Including me, but some expensive tickets would put a certain block on that behaviour).
Oh, I was actually talking more about ice and snow. Good luck biking on that:-) Heck I even hate to get through with the car.
About the suits: this is a conservative country with a lot of financial institutions. Most people wear suits when going to office. I know my clients woudn't mind me coming in tshirt and jeans (I'm a code monkey), but I bought some suits now and I'm going to wear them anyway. Otherwhise the money would really just be wasted.
You don't work in a suit, do you? I do (company policy, not my choice) And you don't have problems with snow and rain? Our winters can be quite cold.
All respect for you. And the parking-issue is big...It's hard to park a car like mine well and safely.
I'm aware of that.... One of my best friends is a motorcycle fanatic. While I like those things, I would have to do another driving license and spend money on a motorbike. The advantage of a car is that you can use them for usefull stuff...like going to work.;-)
I hope understood that my comment was meant partially funny. I rarely drive 200kmh, my car goes only up to 250kmh anyway. It's simply too fast to be safe and the traffic usually doens't allow it. I fear that safety is not your prime concern when driving 300kmh on your motorcycle: one error and you're porridge.
The sign invalidates speed limit, interdiction of overtaking etc. Best viewed on the Autobahn!
German Autbahns rule. I wish it would be regulated everywhere in Europe as in Germany.
You haven't lived until you're driving 200kmh in the fast lane and see a Ferrari at 280kmh in your rear-mirror with flashing headlights to signal to get out of the way.;-)
the flash looked ugly and clunky, and doesn't do them any favours.
Yup, and some months ago it was their main entry. I wanted to buy some belgian chocolates for a friend of mine online and got that ugly flash. Now I took my business somewhere else.
Guiderouter does have flash: all their maps are based on flash. Well it is kinda neat to be able to zoom, but it's just neat. Not useful. If you have flash disabled (as I have here), you get a "nice" page telling me to download flash.
Here's [www2.vo.lu] another example of a fairly good looking html website that I don't think is particularly useful.;)
Okay, granted...my homepage *is* useless, to the extent that it doesn't interest anyone who doesn't know me. However it is a neat way to show pics of my family when friends are far away. Or to show my 31337 HTML coding skills;-) Besides, I had fun making it, and isn't that the whole point? I have not much time now, but I plan to revamp everything someday.
If you find that hotel booking system, I'd be glad to take a look and re-evaluate my feelings about flash.
Oh, and I understood the humour of your post, it's just that I'm really bored at work right now.
Well, I could live without it. It's not as if I would miss those humourus flash animations that much. They are enteraining, that's true...but needed? Nah, not at all.
What I hate is websites that require flash to get the content, or worse have pointless and utter useless complete flash animations. That is despisable. For a quick laugh, flash is okay, for a multimedia CD flash is the thing, for a website it is not suitable at all.
Look at this site to understand what I mean. That is useless flash (as I said, flash is disabled here and I got a normal webpage...so it could be fixed by now) A while ago that wasn't the case at all and you got the flash immediately in your face. Another one is this this site : it refuses to work without flash. I have to admit that it is neat, but utterly useless from an content-wise view. (Normal images would have done just fine...)
Oh, I knew that one. It's a classic, I've been here long enough.
No, I was thinking about those parodies on songs, like for example "Fucking her gently". It's hilarious, or just recently I got the best country song ever "Penis, I don't like you anymore", or even the numerous Boyband/Britney parodies around.
Oh, and I loved the one with the stickmen doing martial arts. I'd love to search for links and post them here, but I'm at work and reading slashot is about the most that is tolerated. (I think that flash is disabled everywhere...not sure though).
On thing we have to think about is that many people make their money by making flash animations/presentations/sites. I personally have a good friend who only does exactly that. Okay, he's into Marketing, so that's probably his evil side:-)
Note that I have thought of flash as a non-web technology that was abominated to run on the web. I have absolutely nothing against flash-based CD-Roms that are used for informational, educational or commercial presentations.
Oh, and those neat humourous swf files (Can't think of any right now, but joecartoon is famous for them) I'll miss those a bit, but only a bit:-)
SilentJames you'd better stay silent. I used to think this too. Well, no I think that XP is crap. For me the best Windows versions are (in order) Windows NT, Windows 2000 and Windows 95/OSR2.
However as for "user-friendly"...I have learned to appreciate WindowMaker on Linux and find it much more friendly to me than any start button.
Recently I did an even more strange thing: I bought my first non-x86 based machine. Yes, I bought an iBook and put OS X on it. That machine is user-friendly...more than any Windows incarnation I ever saw. I barely turn my x86 machine on (which has much more power than this iBook)
Actually I created one recently. We needed to roll out a CD for doctors who were going to use our project. Since it is for the government they are hard to shell the money out. I evaluated a lot of installers and there seemed to be no GNU of free installed. And all I tried sucked majorly or costed money.
So I did the only sane thing to do: I created one myself. It's the first time I actually came accross those infamous undocumented Windows API function calls. Now before you say: "it was probably more expensive for your company to pay you to create one than actually buy one". That would be true if they could have sold me on another project, but with the economic slowdown I was sitting "idle" anyway. It occupied me, and it was useful in the same time.
Unfortunately I made it on company time, so I don't legally own it. However I could re-create it in my spare time. Could be a fun little project.
I know that the duty could be done by a smaller machine... but I hadn't a smaller one lying around (The P120 is a laptop). I'm sure a 386 will handle the "load" well too. I had a 486 lying around but the CPU disappeared into smoke while, ehm, "experimenting" a bit too heavily. I find it quite hard to find 386es these days, even 486es are getting quite unusual. Lowest machines that get to my desk (for repair/maintenance/reinstall) are Pentium-I class machines.
If you've never set up PPPoE, you might take a look at one of my journal entries , it has some useful links I used to set up the machine. Of course google is your friend, too:-)
Oh, and I'd gladly be taking any of those "obsolete 400Mhz machines":-P
You really think these are *all* my computers? Get real man, I only posted the "small" ones on my home-network. Besides, it's worth to "blow my wad" on that kind of a car, but that is my opinion.
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Sorry to disappoint you...
So whoever talks about a loophole, doesn't know the harshness of Luxembourgish customs. (I think they have nothing better to do)
Since GNUcleus is the standard P2P tool I chose for my home network, my sister has to use it instead of anything she ever heard of. (Bearshare, Morpheus, Kazaa and whatever she wanted...don't recall) She is into alternative music, and I though she might be disappointed. Well, she is *not*. She is very happy with what she can get. She never complains. So the more peope participate in Gnutella, the better! Promote it! :-))
And I'm *not* a communist linux type...
I summary: he uses his cable to be online-always-but-not-much traffic, and he uses the modem for downloads. It's the cheapest for him.
I for myself am on ADSL, which is very expensive in my country (compared to the neighbouring countries), but at least it's unmetered (unlike in neighbouring countries)
Now if my Bulgarian friend had (has?) KaZaa installed, this means he will be screwed indeed...because how could he turn off the scumware while he is on Cable? Just think of it...
After backing up my data (which I tend to do once in a while anyway), I did a hard-reset to it. It works fine again now (uploaded my stuff again of course). I suspect that the internal filesystem got fragmented/corrupted or something like that, because I came down from 25% disk usage to 8% disk usage. Not sure.
If your Palm is not phyically dead (I mean a hardware failure), try to reset it (usually with a pen).
Hope this helps...of course we're talking about different platforms. (I don't really like Palms, hardware and software wise)
Make that "rm" instead of "rf"... Sleepy eyes.
You got the point anyway.
No, you haven't learnd your lesson: that goes like...
On a serious side: I admin a small network here as a real BOFH. It's the best way: you get http, https, pop3 and smtp and for the rest they have to nicely ask... I am reasonable: meanwhile ICQ (only chat) is allowed and so is IRC. But that really is about it. Oh, and I don't allow people to install random clients that I didn't evaluate before. :-)
Works like a charm
For comparison: I live in Luxembourg, which is probably one of the most expensive places to live in the EU (I said "living", I wan't talking about alcohol and tobacco). For a bit less than $150000, you get a nice 2 bedroom apartment. (condo as you call it, I had to look it up). Honestly as a single guy I cannot ever afford to think of a house. Houses start from about $300000 here, which is insane. Most people that buy houses here are married: one works for the mortgage the other to pay for the house.
My cousin, who lives in Antwerp just bought a *house* for about $100000.
I was honestly thinking that I lived in a horribly expensive country and you just proved me wrong :-) Thanks for posting, I appreciate the input.
I wish you all the luck in finding a new job. :-)
For the rest, I plan buying a small apartment in the next few years (putting aside about 33% of my salary each month) and am still happy with my old computers too. Being happy with small things is perhaps one of the best ways to keep partially happy.
According to my calculations I earn about 35000 gross a year (makes about 27500 net per year). For the record, I have my CS degree and about three years of work experience in various domains (including Java, C++, Delphi, Oracle, and I could get on) Oh, and I live in one of the wealthiest country of the EU.
I do realise they were talkig about averages, so my three years experience do not count much compared to a 20 year experienced Guru. ;-)
Why is there such a huge gap? It can't come all from the fact that you have to take your own health insurance and stuff like that. Because otherwhise I go to the US and get rich quick.
I know German police is fairly harsh as soon as there are restrictions. I honestly feel that is not a bad thing, because most people are rekless on the road. (Including me, but some expensive tickets would put a certain block on that behaviour).
About the suits: this is a conservative country with a lot of financial institutions. Most people wear suits when going to office.
I know my clients woudn't mind me coming in tshirt and jeans (I'm a code monkey), but I bought some suits now and I'm going to wear them anyway. Otherwhise the money would really just be wasted.
You don't work in a suit, do you? I do (company policy, not my choice) And you don't have problems with snow and rain? Our winters can be quite cold.
All respect for you. And the parking-issue is big...It's hard to park a car like mine well and safely.
I'm aware of that.... One of my best friends is a motorcycle fanatic. While I like those things, I would have to do another driving license and spend money on a motorbike. The advantage of a car is that you can use them for usefull stuff...like going to work. ;-)
I hope understood that my comment was meant partially funny. I rarely drive 200kmh, my car goes only up to 250kmh anyway. It's simply too fast to be safe and the traffic usually doens't allow it. I fear that safety is not your prime concern when driving 300kmh on your motorcycle: one error and you're porridge.
German Autbahns rule. I wish it would be regulated everywhere in Europe as in Germany. ;-)
You haven't lived until you're driving 200kmh in the fast lane and see a Ferrari at 280kmh in your rear-mirror with flashing headlights to signal to get out of the way.
I saw the link... (Just checking your posts) I'll check it out at home :-) I just fear it might be the exception that confirms the rule.
Yup, and some months ago it was their main entry. I wanted to buy some belgian chocolates for a friend of mine online and got that ugly flash. Now I took my business somewhere else.
Guiderouter does have flash: all their maps are based on flash. Well it is kinda neat to be able to zoom, but it's just neat. Not useful. If you have flash disabled (as I have here), you get a "nice" page telling me to download flash.
Here's [www2.vo.lu] another example of a fairly good looking html website that I don't think is particularly useful. ;)
Okay, granted...my homepage *is* useless, to the extent that it doesn't interest anyone who doesn't know me. However it is a neat way to show pics of my family when friends are far away. Or to show my 31337 HTML coding skills ;-) Besides, I had fun making it, and isn't that the whole point? I have not much time now, but I plan to revamp everything someday.
If you find that hotel booking system, I'd be glad to take a look and re-evaluate my feelings about flash.
Oh, and I understood the humour of your post, it's just that I'm really bored at work right now.
What I hate is websites that require flash to get the content, or worse have pointless and utter useless complete flash animations. That is despisable. For a quick laugh, flash is okay, for a multimedia CD flash is the thing, for a website it is not suitable at all.
Look at this site to understand what I mean. That is useless flash (as I said, flash is disabled here and I got a normal webpage...so it could be fixed by now) A while ago that wasn't the case at all and you got the flash immediately in your face.
Another one is this this site : it refuses to work without flash. I have to admit that it is neat, but utterly useless from an content-wise view. (Normal images would have done just fine...)
No, I was thinking about those parodies on songs, like for example "Fucking her gently". It's hilarious, or just recently I got the best country song ever "Penis, I don't like you anymore", or even the numerous Boyband/Britney parodies around.
Oh, and I loved the one with the stickmen doing martial arts. I'd love to search for links and post them here, but I'm at work and reading slashot is about the most that is tolerated. (I think that flash is disabled everywhere...not sure though).
On thing we have to think about is that many people make their money by making flash animations/presentations/sites. I personally have a good friend who only does exactly that. Okay, he's into Marketing, so that's probably his evil side :-)
Note that I have thought of flash as a non-web technology that was abominated to run on the web. I have absolutely nothing against flash-based CD-Roms that are used for informational, educational or commercial presentations.
Oh, and those neat humourous swf files (Can't think of any right now, but joecartoon is famous for them) I'll miss those a bit, but only a bit :-)
SilentJames you'd better stay silent. I used to think this too. Well, no I think that XP is crap. For me the best Windows versions are (in order) Windows NT, Windows 2000 and Windows 95/OSR2.
However as for "user-friendly"...I have learned to appreciate WindowMaker on Linux and find it much more friendly to me than any start button.
Recently I did an even more strange thing: I bought my first non-x86 based machine. Yes, I bought an iBook and put OS X on it. That machine is user-friendly...more than any Windows incarnation I ever saw. I barely turn my x86 machine on (which has much more power than this iBook)
So I did the only sane thing to do: I created one myself. It's the first time I actually came accross those infamous undocumented Windows API function calls. Now before you say: "it was probably more expensive for your company to pay you to create one than actually buy one". That would be true if they could have sold me on another project, but with the economic slowdown I was sitting "idle" anyway. It occupied me, and it was useful in the same time.
Unfortunately I made it on company time, so I don't legally own it. However I could re-create it in my spare time. Could be a fun little project.
I find it quite hard to find 386es these days, even 486es are getting quite unusual. Lowest machines that get to my desk (for repair/maintenance/reinstall) are Pentium-I class machines.
If you've never set up PPPoE, you might take a look at one of my journal entries , it has some useful links I used to set up the machine. Of course google is your friend, too :-)
Oh, and I'd gladly be taking any of those "obsolete 400Mhz machines" :-P
You really think these are *all* my computers? Get real man, I only posted the "small" ones on my home-network. Besides, it's worth to "blow my wad" on that kind of a car, but that is my opinion.