he's already knocked us for taking some of the film industry (ok, he's not the only one.... but remember they created Hollywood in California for the good weather - now with the smog in LA they can't shoot much anymore)
then there is the whole Hockey thumping... (damnit it's our sport anyways!:) but he was gracious enough to put up ar ereally nice post after the fact...
and lastly there are those damn 'Canadian Cold Fronts' that make it snow in Texas... yes definately BLAME CANADA!
ah.... all better now have a great weekend all!
:)
"This is Texas....."
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iWarez
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· Score: 5, Funny
Webb said. "Besides, this is Texas. You never know what he might have been carrying."
now that is reasurring... a Mac user packing heat.
Now if every computer user carried a weapon, you think the RIAA and MPAA would be fucking with us?
as much as oddtodd did, they would be getting more than a kick in the ass as I walk past them.
this is advertising in it's best form - he's got talent and shows it in a form that makes people WANT to see it. I sincerly hope he gets hired... and I hope that dollar I sent him (hey that's a buck and 62 cents Canadian!) bought him another cup of java.
And here is Google's return on the query "paypal problems".
I wonder if this class action suit is for US residents only, as there are 13 million members, a good number of whom live outside the borders of the States. I recall the HP/Panasonic CD-R drive class action suit a year or two ago and being Canadian I wasn't able to partake in it.
For those of you who want to sign up for this suit, here is the link to the lawyers registration form.
MSNBC.com has this story on PayPal facing a class action lawsuit.... is it just me or does it seem like/. is skipping this story? Maybe Taco bought a whack of shares in their IPO last week:)
And here is Google's return on the query "paypal problems".
I wonder if this class action suit is for US residents only, as there are 13 million members, a good number of whom live outside the borders of the States. I recall the HP/Panasonic CD-R drive class action suit a year or two ago and being Canadian (go Team Canada today and tomorrow in Hockey!) I wasn't able to partake in it.
For those of you who want to sign up for this suit, here is the link to the lawyers registration form.
where the loser of a lawsuit can be (and usually is) held liable for the winner's court costs. What this prevents is blatant misuse of the legal system. If you really have a strong case and know you will win, then by all means take it to court... if you are on shaky legal ground you had better think twice about it 'cause you can wind up paying the whole tab.
I just used some of the proceeds from selling Diablo 2 items (yes, I'm one of those bastards;) to donate to the EFF... via a PayPal balance so the EFF doesn't get hit with a big % take from PayPal.
Here's the link to help:
https://www.eff.org/support/donate-cc.html
Don't be lazy - copy and paste it now!
Not sure why this would only have a LOW risk....
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warning from McAfee, as look at the file listing that is attempted to be deleted (according to McAfee):
That would seem to be pretty destructive to me... Also strange that we can only get a beta DAT file and there is no mention on McAfee's virus alert pages that this thing is out there... tisk tisk how many people will think this is a hoax and run it fscking up their systems...
The following post is from an email I received from one of our contractors, all identifying references have been removed to protect the guilty..;-)
----
Initially we installed XP on workstations within an NT 4.0 domain and had no
problems other than mapping network printers was not straight forward. If
we used the Add Printer Wizard on the XP workstation, we could not see any
network printers. If we dragged and dropped a network printer from Windows
Explorer to the printers window, it would install - not a big deal we
thought, which is why we decided to move forward. However, when we tried to
convert our Windows 2000 network workstations, we started encountering
issues with the network trusts between the workstations and servers. One
minute the trust was there and the next it was gone and had to be manually
rebuilt. Also, we were constantly getting error messages that the
workstation time and the server time could not be synched so network logons
were denied, At one point the local admin could not logon locally because of
this time issue. Share permissions would drop randomly and had to be
re-established. User logon scripts would not run. Network printers would
not map correctly and in some cases, workstations could not even see a
network printer that was visible to other workstations. We tried connecting
via a Workgroup instead of a Domain and that almost worked but we would have
to manually create network share connections for each workstation and we
never could get a network printer to work this way. XP also would not allow
our Adaptec CD burning software to run - it outright disabled it after it
blue-screened twice on boot up and it's built in burning software just plain
did not work at all. There is no patch for Partition Magic 6.0 (which we
just upgraded to use with Windows 2000) so we had to purchase 7.0 ( we have
some dual boot machines). XP would not recognize our scanners, mind you
they are 3 years old. Another big thing that concerned me was, on a couple
of machines we turned on automatic update and noticed that just about every
day, Microsoft released patches.
So after spending 3 days converting to XP we spent another 3 days converting
back.
While I do not profess to be an O/S expert, I think I'm going to wait for a
while. In my opinion this is not a step forward from Windows 2000 yet
however it is a diagonal step from Windows 9X to a unified code base. My
daughters are using it on their home computers and it works well for them.
I still have it on my laptop and as long as it stays away from a network - I
kind of like it.
Don't know if this will impact the scheduling of the movie but......
'Terminator' breaks ribs in motorcycle crash
SANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP) -- Arnold Schwarzenegger was hospitalized with several broken ribs after a weekend motorcycle accident, his publicist said Monday.
The 54-year-old star of the "Terminator" movies was resting at St. John's Health Center in Santa Monica after the Sunday afternoon crash, publicist Jill Eisenstadt said.
Schwarzenegger, who is negotiating to appear in a third "Terminator" film, was "in good spirits, feeling sore, but otherwise fine," she said.
"Don't worry," the actor said in a statement. "This won't affect my skiing with my family at Sun Valley (Idaho) this Christmas."
Details of the motorcycle accident, which also occurred in Santa Monica, were not immediately available.
Schwarzenegger underwent elective surgery to replace a heart valve in April 1997.
His new movie "Collateral Damage," which was postponed after the Sept. 11 attacks because it's about terrorism, now is scheduled to open in February.
my bank said the only way to do this was to put a $.01 stop payment order in for PayPal. That's fine and dandy but it costs $15 (CDN) and expires every month... that just isn't reasonable - I haven't looked at what other banks would do given this request, but doubt that there would be any difference since they are all cut from the same cloth.
I am looking at creating a new chequing account just for the swept funds which then I will transfer the whole balance to an account that PayPal doesn't have access to.
Intel's link takes you to on2.com's website where they have this to say:
With the VP3 for Windows codec, you can encode VP3 video and play it back through the Windows Media Player! The VP3 for Windows codec allows you to encode VP3 video using any Video for Windows compatible encoding application (such as Adobe Premiere and Virtual Dub) and play it back through the Windows Media Player. This version comes with limited email support. $395 USD"
The free open source versions can be found at www.vp3.com, but it looks like Intel is promoting them the big bucks version.
US Government classified information? What the heck are they using for classified info crypto? From the article:
Q: What is the chance that someone could use the "DES Cracker"-like hardware to crack an AES key?
In the late 1990s, specialized "DES Cracker" machines were built that could recover a DES key after a few hours. In other words, by trying possible key values, the hardware could determine which key was used to encrypt a message.
A: Assuming that one could build a machine that could recover a DES key in a second (i.e., try 255 keys per second), then it would take that machine approximately 149 thousand-billion (149 trillion) years to crack a 128-bit AES key. To put that into perspective, the universe is believed to be less than 20 billion years old.
snip...
The Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) will be a new Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) Publication that will specify a cryptographic algorithm for use by U.S. Government organizations to protect sensitive (unclassified) information.
Nomad v1 mp3 player and a few 32mb flash memory cards. It holds a total of 64MB and is completely SDMI free. With the replacable memory cards, you can have different genres of music for driving/working out etc.
Additional features are an FM tuner and a voice recorder.
and not purchase, nor recommend to anybody including my employer (2000+ PCs) McAfee's products. Or any other product that doesn't jive with what I want it to do.
Will be interesting to see what the marketplace thinks of this move when their stocks start trading again on Monday.
F-Prot isn't based in the States, and maybe they will provide the protection users want.
So if you can't wait or would rather tweak and hack (and we are/.'ers right?) then the Xbox Gateway project is utterly fantastic..
Remember, the Xbox was only released 9 days ago... just wait another month, there will be so many mods and services added (think Gamespy-like) that once again, M$ will be behind the 8-ball just like they were with that 'internet' thing.
Whoa... this is some smoking tech - and why pay the telco for leased lines or leased fibre - or buy your own then trench it... from a ROI standpoint, wireless is absolutely the way to go.
Check out Wi-Lan's stuff, they had a press release yesterday "Operating at an unprecedented throughput of up to 192 megabits per second per six-sector cell, Wi-LAN's BWS Series includes access points and customer premises equipment (CPE), and can be used in broadband access applications alone or in combination with wired alternatives. The BWS Series also offers an eave-height integrated antenna and outdoor unit (ODU) that allows for quick and economical installation of point-to-point and point-to-multipoint applications. Wi-LAN's broadband wireless access systems are powered by the company's patented W-OFDM technology, allowing for increased capacity, non line-of-site capability, and superior resistance to multipath, resulting in higher effective data transmission rates and a typical range of 15 kilometres."
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'Blame Canada'
:) but he was gracious enough to put up ar ereally nice post after the fact...
he's already knocked us for taking some of the film industry (ok, he's not the only one.... but remember they created Hollywood in California for the good weather - now with the smog in LA they can't shoot much anymore)
then there is the whole Hockey thumping... (damnit it's our sport anyways!
and lastly there are those damn 'Canadian Cold Fronts' that make it snow in Texas... yes definately BLAME CANADA!
ah.... all better now
have a great weekend all!
:)
Webb said. "Besides, this is Texas. You never know what he might have been carrying."
now that is reasurring... a Mac user packing heat.
Now if every computer user carried a weapon, you think the RIAA and MPAA would be fucking with us?
:)
as much as oddtodd did, they would be getting more than a kick in the ass as I walk past them.
this is advertising in it's best form - he's got talent and shows it in a form that makes people WANT to see it. I sincerly hope he gets hired... and I hope that dollar I sent him (hey that's a buck and 62 cents Canadian!) bought him another cup of java.
great clarification - thanks!
Here a few more links to anti-PayPal sites:
paypalwarning.com
paypalsuit.com
boycott-paypal.com
And here is Google's return on the query "paypal problems".
I wonder if this class action suit is for US residents only, as there are 13 million members, a good number of whom live outside the borders of the States. I recall the HP/Panasonic CD-R drive class action suit a year or two ago and being Canadian I wasn't able to partake in it.
For those of you who want to sign up for this suit, here is the link to the lawyers registration form.
MSNBC.com has this story on PayPal facing a class action lawsuit.... is it just me or does it seem like /. is skipping this story? Maybe Taco bought a whack of shares in their IPO last week :)
Here a few more links to anti-PayPal sites:
paypalwarning.com
paypalsuit.com
boycott-paypal.com
And here is Google's return on the query "paypal problems".
I wonder if this class action suit is for US residents only, as there are 13 million members, a good number of whom live outside the borders of the States. I recall the HP/Panasonic CD-R drive class action suit a year or two ago and being Canadian (go Team Canada today and tomorrow in Hockey!) I wasn't able to partake in it.
For those of you who want to sign up for this suit, here is the link to the lawyers registration form.
bah - coward's posts don't count for much of anything, biatch!
ah what the hell, my karma is capped anyways...
do your worst!
where the loser of a lawsuit can be (and usually is) held liable for the winner's court costs. What this prevents is blatant misuse of the legal system. If you really have a strong case and know you will win, then by all means take it to court... if you are on shaky legal ground you had better think twice about it 'cause you can wind up paying the whole tab.
here although this new link has the location and some of the items for sale.
Some of the pics have an interesting backdrop I wonder what trade secrets the chair hides.. LOL
I just used some of the proceeds from selling Diablo 2 items (yes, I'm one of those bastards ;) to donate to the EFF... via a PayPal balance so the EFF doesn't get hit with a big % take from PayPal.
Here's the link to help:
https://www.eff.org/support/donate-cc.html
Don't be lazy - copy and paste it now!
warning from McAfee, as look at the file listing that is attempted to be deleted (according to McAfee):
Files being Deleted on an example (win9x) system:
- c:\WINDOWS\1STBOOT.BMP
- c:\WINDOWS\ASD.EXE
- c:\WINDOWS\CLEANMGR.EXE
- c:\WINDOWS\CLSPACK.EXE
- c:\WINDOWS\CONTROL.EXE
- c:\WINDOWS\CVTAPLOG.EXE
- c:\WINDOWS\DEFRAG.EXE
- c:\WINDOWS\DOSREP.EXE
- c:\WINDOWS\DRWATSON.EXE
- c:\WINDOWS\DRWATSON
- c:\WINDOWS\DRWATSON\FRAME.HTM
- c:\WINDOWS\EMM386.EXE
- c:\WINDOWS\HIMEM.SYS
- c:\WINDOWS\HWINFO.EXE
- c:\WINDOWS\JAUTOEXP.DAT
- c:\WINDOWS\Kacheln.bmp
- c:\WINDOWS\Kreise.bmp
- c:\WINDOWS\LICENSE.TXT
- c:\WINDOWS\LOGOS.SYS
- c:\WINDOWS\LOGOW.SYS
- c:\WINDOWS\MORICONS.DLL
- c:\WINDOWS\NDDEAPI.DLL
- c:\WINDOWS\NDDENB.DLL
- c:\WINDOWS\NETDET.INI
- c:\WINDOWS\RAMDRIVE.SYS
- c:\WINDOWS\RUNHELP.CAB
- c:\WINDOWS\SCRIPT.DOC
- c:\WINDOWS\Setup.bmp
- c:\WINDOWS\SMARTDRV.EXE
- c:\WINDOWS\Streifen.bmp
- c:\WINDOWS\SUBACK.BIN
- c:\WINDOWS\SUPPORT.TXT
- c:\WINDOWS\TELEPHON.INI
- c:\WINDOWS\W98SETUP.BIN
- c:\WINDOWS\Wellen.bmp
- c:\WINDOWS\WIN.COM
- c:\WINDOWS\WIN.INI
- c:\WINDOWS\WINSOCK.DLL
That would seem to be pretty destructive to me... Also strange that we can only get a beta DAT file and there is no mention on McAfee's virus alert pages that this thing is out there... tisk tisk how many people will think this is a hoax and run it fscking up their systems...
Isn't this an oxymoron akind to 'military intelligence'?
I mean really, who hasn't heard of the NSA? Or read a Tom Clancey novel....
For those who don't know what I'm talking about... read the freaking WP article!
The following post is from an email I received from one of our contractors, all identifying references have been removed to protect the guilty.. ;-)
----
Initially we installed XP on workstations within an NT 4.0 domain and had no
problems other than mapping network printers was not straight forward. If
we used the Add Printer Wizard on the XP workstation, we could not see any
network printers. If we dragged and dropped a network printer from Windows
Explorer to the printers window, it would install - not a big deal we
thought, which is why we decided to move forward. However, when we tried to
convert our Windows 2000 network workstations, we started encountering
issues with the network trusts between the workstations and servers. One
minute the trust was there and the next it was gone and had to be manually
rebuilt. Also, we were constantly getting error messages that the
workstation time and the server time could not be synched so network logons
were denied, At one point the local admin could not logon locally because of
this time issue. Share permissions would drop randomly and had to be
re-established. User logon scripts would not run. Network printers would
not map correctly and in some cases, workstations could not even see a
network printer that was visible to other workstations. We tried connecting
via a Workgroup instead of a Domain and that almost worked but we would have
to manually create network share connections for each workstation and we
never could get a network printer to work this way. XP also would not allow
our Adaptec CD burning software to run - it outright disabled it after it
blue-screened twice on boot up and it's built in burning software just plain
did not work at all. There is no patch for Partition Magic 6.0 (which we
just upgraded to use with Windows 2000) so we had to purchase 7.0 ( we have
some dual boot machines). XP would not recognize our scanners, mind you
they are 3 years old. Another big thing that concerned me was, on a couple
of machines we turned on automatic update and noticed that just about every
day, Microsoft released patches.
So after spending 3 days converting to XP we spent another 3 days converting
back.
While I do not profess to be an O/S expert, I think I'm going to wait for a
while. In my opinion this is not a step forward from Windows 2000 yet
however it is a diagonal step from Windows 9X to a unified code base. My
daughters are using it on their home computers and it works well for them.
I still have it on my laptop and as long as it stays away from a network - I
kind of like it.
how big an idiot he really is.
glrotate
sure would be nice to have a squelch command for some users.
Don't know if this will impact the scheduling of the movie but......
'Terminator' breaks ribs in motorcycle crash
SANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP) -- Arnold Schwarzenegger was hospitalized with several broken ribs after a weekend motorcycle accident, his publicist said Monday.
The 54-year-old star of the "Terminator" movies was resting at St. John's Health Center in Santa Monica after the Sunday afternoon crash, publicist Jill Eisenstadt said.
Schwarzenegger, who is negotiating to appear in a third "Terminator" film, was "in good spirits, feeling sore, but otherwise fine," she said.
"Don't worry," the actor said in a statement. "This won't affect my skiing with my family at Sun Valley (Idaho) this Christmas."
Details of the motorcycle accident, which also occurred in Santa Monica, were not immediately available.
Schwarzenegger underwent elective surgery to replace a heart valve in April 1997.
His new movie "Collateral Damage," which was postponed after the Sept. 11 attacks because it's about terrorism, now is scheduled to open in February.
link to another news source...
my bank said the only way to do this was to put a $.01 stop payment order in for PayPal. That's fine and dandy but it costs $15 (CDN) and expires every month... that just isn't reasonable - I haven't looked at what other banks would do given this request, but doubt that there would be any difference since they are all cut from the same cloth.
I am looking at creating a new chequing account just for the swept funds which then I will transfer the whole balance to an account that PayPal doesn't have access to.
Canada? Seems like their online account application form is US centric.
If so, please let me know how you did this....
it may be open source, but it sure isn't cheap...
Intel's link takes you to on2.com's website where they have this to say:
With the VP3 for Windows codec, you can encode VP3 video and play it back through the Windows Media Player! The VP3 for Windows codec allows you to encode VP3 video using any Video for Windows compatible encoding application (such as Adobe Premiere and Virtual Dub) and play it back through the Windows Media Player. This version comes with limited email support. $395 USD"
The free open source versions can be found at www.vp3.com, but it looks like Intel is promoting them the big bucks version.
damn cutting and pasting.. or just "damn, I should have read the preview..."
;-)
US Government classified information? What the heck are they using for classified info crypto? From the article:
Q: What is the chance that someone could use the "DES Cracker"-like hardware to crack an AES key?
In the late 1990s, specialized "DES Cracker" machines were built that could recover a DES key after a few hours. In other words, by trying possible key values, the hardware could determine which key was used to encrypt a message.
A: Assuming that one could build a machine that could recover a DES key in a second (i.e., try 255 keys per second), then it would take that machine approximately 149 thousand-billion (149 trillion) years to crack a 128-bit AES key. To put that into perspective, the universe is believed to be less than 20 billion years old.
snip...
The Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) will be a new Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) Publication that will specify a cryptographic algorithm for use by U.S. Government organizations to protect sensitive (unclassified) information.
Nomad v1 mp3 player and a few 32mb flash memory cards. It holds a total of 64MB and is completely SDMI free. With the replacable memory cards, you can have different genres of music for driving/working out etc.
Additional features are an FM tuner and a voice recorder.
Here's the link.
And of course since they are a couple years old, you can pick them up cheap!
and not purchase, nor recommend to anybody including my employer (2000+ PCs) McAfee's products. Or any other product that doesn't jive with what I want it to do.
Will be interesting to see what the marketplace thinks of this move when their stocks start trading again on Monday.
F-Prot isn't based in the States, and maybe they will provide the protection users want.
So if you can't wait or would rather tweak and hack (and we are /.'ers right?) then the Xbox Gateway project is utterly fantastic..
Remember, the Xbox was only released 9 days ago... just wait another month, there will be so many mods and services added (think Gamespy-like) that once again, M$ will be behind the 8-ball just like they were with that 'internet' thing.
Whoa... this is some smoking tech - and why pay the telco for leased lines or leased fibre - or buy your own then trench it... from a ROI standpoint, wireless is absolutely the way to go.
Check out Wi-Lan's stuff, they had a press release yesterday "Operating at an unprecedented throughput of up to 192 megabits per second per six-sector cell, Wi-LAN's BWS Series includes access points and customer premises equipment (CPE), and can be used in broadband access applications alone or in combination with wired alternatives. The BWS Series also offers an eave-height integrated antenna and outdoor unit (ODU) that allows for quick and economical installation of point-to-point and point-to-multipoint applications. Wi-LAN's broadband wireless access systems are powered by the company's patented W-OFDM technology, allowing for increased capacity, non line-of-site capability, and superior resistance to multipath, resulting in higher effective data transmission rates and a typical range of 15 kilometres."