Quote from the article: And for those saying they don't trust Microsoft to fix their systems, I have one question: If you don't trust this company, why did you give it your money?
The truth is: no, they didnt paid for the OS.:P
Seriously, still quoted from the article:
Windows XP, by default, provides unrestricted, "administrator" access to a computer. This sounds like a good thing but is not, because any program, worms and viruses included, also has unrestricted access.
It doesnt change a thing - if unpatched, those boxes are STILL subject to be infected. The Blaster worm, for example, was attacking a service which is already running with full SYSTEM rights.
So, that secretary with reduced rights on a Windows machine would have the virus anyways.
Vi and Emacs are not popular outside the Unix commandline community because they're console apps, not because of their names!
...I use an Emacs winblows port (GNU Emacs 21.2.1 (i386-msvc-nt5.1.2600)) as my primary text editor, and I dont use Unix, too (Well, ok. I have a linux box set up as a web/ftp server, but I dont telnet on it anyways. ) Console or not, I think this software is quite complete (And free! I hate to see notepads made by some guy and put it demo or 5-day shareware. I mean, why the hell would I pay to edit/view a readme!?:/) and its more than enough for me.
But I know emacs isnt popular/known for windows users, though.
- Important Disk images (custom bootdisk, ghost..)
- Putty, of course.
- A zip file of my php project (i dont work on it anymore:( )
- The installation file of the client to connect on a WindowsXP desktop
- A distributed.net client, even if I dont use it anymore
- Messenger Plus!, and Cronosoft QuickHide Windows (Useful like hell to chat at school)
So it'll take them that long just to sue the Americans who are using P2P
Better yet, it will take them that long to sue americans that ACTUALLY (as in today) are using P2P. In a few years, other will enter the building and start sharing. So, there will be others people to sue.
For your information, courriel isnt used as a verb, at least in Quebec. Sometimes it sounds just wrong to translate word by word from english. For example, "E-mail me" is translated "envoies-moi un courriel". And if we translate back from the french sentense, it still makes sense ("Send-me an e-mail")
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I have a one year old Maxtor hard drive (40gb@7200 rpm) here and its making as much noise as my 4-5 year old fujitsu 8gb@7200 rpm. So I guess that hard drives is another major noise source.
If you have the ressources to do it, heres an ingenious way to silent an hard drive.
I did end-to-end tests on my PC comparing MP3 and Ogg files, and I found out that Ogg files were smaller, and of higher quality, than MP3 files that were equivalently-encoded from the same WAV file.
An Ogg Vorbis file encoded at 64kbps sounds exactly like an MP3 encoded at 128kpbs. Now thats a good point, considering the space restrictions on portable (memory and card based) devices.
If you want to test the sound quality for yourself, heres a page where you can listen to ogg vorbis compared to mp3pro, mp3, wma, and others, all of them compressed at 64kbps. Click here to start comparing.
I've been told that cell phone numbers are supposed to be confidential in Canada (in other words: Foobar inc. won't be able to find your cell number (unless you write/say it everywhere to everyone, of course))
I used SMS a bit with one friend of mine, and none of us recieved a single SMS spam.
Someone else in this thread said to get rid of the spam from the source, not the destination - I think thats not totally true. Since SMS spam looks like e-mail spam so much, why dont mobile service providers add some software to block SMS spams before they send SMS to the user? Its a bit like Hotmail (or whatever e-mail service) spam filtering.
While im at it, it would be nice to have a spam filtering web interface on your cell provider's website that acts a bit like hotmail custom filters, for example: "If text contains 'free viagra', do not send" and so on.
My nickname is far from being in the dictionary, and I have my load of spam. Go figure:)
Nah.. seriously, I really have my daily batch of spam, but I have to thank those teens that I know IRL that always forwards when they are asked for it in those chain letters.
Slighty offtopic, but since im at it: if you dont know what the hell is wrong with chain letters, or want some clue about how to (try to) avoid spam, you may check Ernie's thoughts about spam and methods to prevent them.
While we're talking about RPG's, playing english RPGs by someone who dont understand english alot will improve their english skills (if they actually want to understand the dialogues)
In fact, they planned to work on a new OS long ago, then they worked on it for some time. Then, some company bought that project along with the job done so far. What was the company name already, Microloft?
Does her e-mail to grandma get typed any faster? Does her word processor show huge performance increases over her old system? Does solitaire blaze along faster than ever?
You know, this is why I wont upgrade my PC for the next few years. I switched from a p233 to an athlon 2000+, from 8 to 40gigs, from a voodoo3 to a radeon 8500... and I wont upgrade my PC for the next 4 or 5 years, just like I did with my p233. I think that recent PCs are enough for everyday use (average gaming, surfing/word, etc) and will be for a long time (No need to upgrade, except for Doom III). Who really needs more power, anyway? (Yeah, except those PC hardware freaks: "Hey, Athlon 3000+ is now 0.25$ cheaper than yesterday! Y'know you can set your motherboard's FSB up to *blah* mhz with that processor, it will kick ass! Ill go buy 3 of them right away!")
Also, kicking linux out of the way makes me think to palladium-enhanced processors, I think those kind of methods (trying to take away control from the user) wont be successful, unless M$/HP almost GIVE their products, IE. $150 for a complete system.
You could of course sacrifice some sound quality but I would get a vorbis decoding player. Vorbis sounds nice at 64kbps and at this bitrate it sounds like a LAME mp3 encoded at 128kbps. Just try it if you are septic:
I dont know, but i cant even log on any.ca servers (im on.sympatico.ca). And can anyone tell me i cant log on any servers, saying 'Youre not authorized to use this damned server'? I guess i will change my ISP:P
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And for those saying they don't trust Microsoft to fix their systems, I have one question: If you don't trust this company, why did you give it your money?
The truth is: no, they didnt paid for the OS.
Seriously, still quoted from the article:
Windows XP, by default, provides unrestricted, "administrator" access to a computer. This sounds like a good thing but is not, because any program, worms and viruses included, also has unrestricted access.
It doesnt change a thing - if unpatched, those boxes are STILL subject to be infected. The Blaster worm, for example, was attacking a service which is already running with full SYSTEM rights.
So, that secretary with reduced rights on a Windows machine would have the virus anyways.
Whoa - I first thought it was written:
The user of the phone had bought the battery at a flamemarket .
...that cmdrtaco@slashdot.org posted to alt.sex.unicorns 10 times last month.
And he gets scored +5 Interesting??
Lol
Vi and Emacs are not popular outside the Unix commandline community because they're console apps, not because of their names!
...I use an Emacs winblows port (GNU Emacs 21.2.1 (i386-msvc-nt5.1.2600)) as my primary text editor, and I dont use Unix, too (Well, ok. I have a linux box set up as a web/ftp server, but I dont telnet on it anyways. ) Console or not, I think this software is quite complete (And free! I hate to see notepads made by some guy and put it demo or 5-day shareware. I mean, why the hell would I pay to edit/view a readme!? :/) and its more than enough for me.
But I know emacs isnt popular/known for windows users, though.
- Important Disk images (custom bootdisk, ghost..) :( )
... on a 64mb TwinMOS keychain USB
- Putty, of course.
- A zip file of my php project (i dont work on it anymore
- The installation file of the client to connect on a WindowsXP desktop
- A distributed.net client, even if I dont use it anymore
- Messenger Plus!, and Cronosoft QuickHide Windows (Useful like hell to chat at school)
So it'll take them that long just to sue the Americans who are using P2P
Better yet, it will take them that long to sue americans that ACTUALLY (as in today) are using P2P. In a few years, other will enter the building and start sharing. So, there will be others people to sue.
At any rate, I know a lot of people--100% pure Windows users--who are quite happy about having Mozilla. Tabbed browsing and pop-up blocking is a boon.
:)
Who knows, maybe IE7 will "borrow" those features from Mozilla!
couriel OR couriell site:fr 730 results
Couriell? I never saw couriel written with two L's.
For your information, courriel isnt used as a verb, at least in Quebec. Sometimes it sounds just wrong to translate word by word from english. For example, "E-mail me" is translated "envoies-moi un courriel". And if we translate back from the french sentense, it still makes sense ("Send-me an e-mail")
How about watching the Matrix in ASCII?
(DSL or more recommended, 4.5 Mb HTML page)
...what kind of mail does a major spammer receive in the course of three days? By now, we have a very precise answer: 6305 mails.
They are wrong. Look in the page linked:
Introduction: 6305 mails in (basically) one day
I have a one year old Maxtor hard drive (40gb@7200 rpm) here and its making as much noise as my 4-5 year old fujitsu 8gb@7200 rpm. So I guess that hard drives is another major noise source.
If you have the ressources to do it, heres an ingenious way to silent an hard drive.
They could say "Use the source, Luke!"
I did end-to-end tests on my PC comparing MP3 and Ogg files, and I found out that Ogg files were smaller, and of higher quality, than MP3 files that were equivalently-encoded from the same WAV file.
An Ogg Vorbis file encoded at 64kbps sounds exactly like an MP3 encoded at 128kpbs. Now thats a good point, considering the space restrictions on portable (memory and card based) devices.
If you want to test the sound quality for yourself, heres a page where you can listen to ogg vorbis compared to mp3pro, mp3, wma, and others, all of them compressed at 64kbps. Click here to start comparing.
...deciding to update to Mozilla 1.4RC3 via my dialup just the other day...Of course they would release 1.4 so I have to download it again :/
I know what you feel, it happened to me, too.
ATI is also producing graphics hardware for Nintendo Gamecube.
I've been told that cell phone numbers are supposed to be confidential in Canada (in other words: Foobar inc. won't be able to find your cell number (unless you write/say it everywhere to everyone, of course))
I used SMS a bit with one friend of mine, and none of us recieved a single SMS spam.
Someone else in this thread said to get rid of the spam from the source, not the destination - I think thats not totally true. Since SMS spam looks like e-mail spam so much, why dont mobile service providers add some software to block SMS spams before they send SMS to the user? Its a bit like Hotmail (or whatever e-mail service) spam filtering.
While im at it, it would be nice to have a spam filtering web interface on your cell provider's website that acts a bit like hotmail custom filters, for example: "If text contains 'free viagra', do not send" and so on.
My 2 canadian cents (thats $0.01 USD).
My nickname is far from being in the dictionary, and I have my load of spam. Go figure :)
Nah.. seriously, I really have my daily batch of spam, but I have to thank those teens that I know IRL that always forwards when they are asked for it in those chain letters.
Slighty offtopic, but since im at it: if you dont know what the hell is wrong with chain letters, or want some clue about how to (try to) avoid spam, you may check Ernie's thoughts about spam and methods to prevent them.
I downloaded and started using the previous version of Mozilla the day just before RC1 was released. I hate when it happens :/
While we're talking about RPG's, playing english RPGs by someone who dont understand english alot will improve their english skills (if they actually want to understand the dialogues)
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Worked for me and for alot of people
In fact, they planned to work on a new OS long ago, then they worked on it for some time. Then, some company bought that project along with the job done so far. What was the company name already, Microloft?
Also, kicking linux out of the way makes me think to palladium-enhanced processors, I think those kind of methods (trying to take away control from the user) wont be successful, unless M$/HP almost GIVE their products, IE. $150 for a complete system.
You could of course sacrifice some sound quality but I would get a vorbis decoding player. Vorbis sounds nice at 64kbps and at this bitrate it sounds like a LAME mp3 encoded at 128kbps. Just try it if you are septic:
http://www.xiph.org/ogg/vorbis/listen.html
If you make a search in cnet wireless section, there IS a nokia 918 cell phone.. but that page dont tell anything about radiations. Well whatever
Bilange
Dont make misteaks.
Why do EFnet Canadian servers only allow *.ca ?
.ca servers (im on .sympatico.ca). And can anyone tell me i cant log on any servers, saying 'Youre not authorized to use this damned server'? I guess i will change my ISP :P
.ca server still alive? :)
I dont know, but i cant even log on any
Hey wait.. is there any