Agreed, where I am you can ALWAYS watch netflix and youtube, other streaming sites may be slow as treacle but those two never seem to have an issue. I doubt "net neutrality" has ever been enforced in my country. To be honest they have been shaping certain ports for years, all this means is that they will start shaping depending on destination as well.
Well I did mention links with some kind of proof - just saying "because" is not proof.
So I googled that for you... https://support.hp.com/us-en/d...
And if it's the TLDR thing then here is the relevant bit
Many, including Hewlett-Packard, use the Windows Update tool to distribute their updates.
I do the same, ESPECIALLY laptops, I don't need a hidden "recovery" partition sucking up space. Although I generally try get the latest drivers from the manufacturer - preferably BEFORE formatting, although that is sometimes not possible. I remember once having to go buy a memory stick and go to an internet cafe to get network drivers (many moons ago) so that I could get my NIC up and running - the stock Windows drivers did not recognize it.
Why the fuck would Microsoft be distributing HP's software? I very much doubt it came via Windows Update, but I don't mind being corrected, please send links to anything which states it was via Windows Update.
Who ever wrote the driver is an idiot, you don't have to record every bloody keystroke for hot keys, it's built into the windows api.
More specifically in user32.dll there is a method called RegisterHotKey, I've used it plenty times, works like a charm, there was/is no need to monitor every keystroke, and definitely no reason to write it all out to disk.
Or he had some really shitty professors.
I have to admit I have had one or two myself, read from the book / manual / whatever and when you stop them and ask a question they don't have an answer.
Shitty teacher.
And then I have had some really awesome ones, ask a question they can't answer and they go find it and tell you in the next session.
Well thanks for that, did not know there was a media player called groove built into Win10, trying it now.
To be honest I probably won't use it, wrote my own ages ago, main feature is a fucken delete button, deletes a song from my playlist AND the hard drive with one little click. If I don't like a song I want it GONE! Yes I know you can do that in other players, but not with one little click.
Of course you can target poor people, you just need something they would want more than anything else.
There's plenty of stuff like that, but I would bet the following couple would be the best
Porn
Alcohol
Betting
Gambling
Drugs
I worked for a sports betting company for a couple years, they target the "great unwashed" (and trust me, if you walked into a busy branch on a Saturday you realized that statement is VERY true) they didn't put down big bets, but there were so many of them it didn't matter. When the Lehman Brothers collapsed and everyone started closing their wallets their business actually increased.
Desperate times and desperate people, and most of them bet on LONG odds.
I suppose it didn't help that whenever someone actually won a 256/1 bet they would put posters of it up everywhere.
Another war to feed the American industrial military complex, what did you expect?
Why are you even surprised? America has been at (almost) constant war since the American civil war.
America is building tanks it doesn't need (or want) just so that they can keep the factory running in case they need to ramp up production http://www.military.com/daily-...
Why would any country do that unless the intention was to go to war in the future.
We have to defend against Russian aggression I can only see American aggression from where I am standing.
And your media is all squeaky clean and above board?
I would hold Russia Today in higher regard than ANY of the USA propaganda... I mean media outlets, thank your very much.
That being said I think they are all tools of their respective governments, and they ALL lie!
The days of honest reporting are long gone.
Agreed, it's pointless blaming the developers when they are not the ones calling the shots. I have worked at a couple companies where the deadline for release was set in stone, regardless of ANYTHING else. The project went live and our currency ended up taking a bit of a dip because of the fvck up it caused on the stock exchange (and no, I was not part of THAT project thank god!). Also programming is NOT the same as engineering. Most engineering projects are planned WAY WAY better than 99.999% if I.T. projects, which makes it easier to hit the dead line etc. Now I am not an engineer (well, I was studying for it many moons ago, but I got sidetracked into software) so I may stand corrected, but I am pretty sure most engineering tasks don't hit a snag and grind progress down to a crawl. Look I am sure there are exceptions, but I have encountered weird ass bugs that take forever to hunt down, that was not part of the original project plan!
Considering all the Crypto lockers running around even the "cloud' is not safe, especially if you only realize it AFTER your files are encrypted and get synced with the version on the file, effectively overwriting your "backup' with the encrypted file.
Look, I wasn't trying to be a troll and bash linux (pun intended) I use Linux at home for my media center and file storage, and Linux has gotten more friendly - but it still has a long way to go before it's as user friendly as Windows.
A LOT of people do not want to use, or learn how to use, the command line.
Until the Linux developers figure that out (Mark tried with Ubuntu) Linux is not going to replace windows. It's that simple. You can spout the incredibleness of scripting and stuffs but if the windows person you are selling it to doesn't give a fuck you are wasting your time. BTW all of this scripting goodness can be done in windows, I always have a power shell open, haven't played with bash on windows yet.
And just to clarify I use the command line all the time, be it in windows or linux.
Who the fuck modded you up? Linux is a pain to configure, 90% of anything needs to be done via the command line, that is not "pleasant".
Reminds me of a quote from bash.org
it only takes three commands to install Gentoo
cfdisk/dev/hda && mkfs.xfs/dev/hda1 && mount/dev/hda1/mnt/gentoo/ && chroot/mnt/gentoo/ && env-update && ./etc/profile && emerge sync && cd/usr/portage && scripts/bootsrap.sh && emerge system && emerge vim && vi/etc/fstab && emerge gentoo-dev-sources && cd/usr/src/linux && make menuconfig && make install modules_install && emerge gnome mozilla-firefox openoffice && emerge grub && cp/boot/grub/grub.conf.sample/boot/grub/grub.conf && vi/boot/grub/grub.conf && grub && init 6
that's the first one
Batteries are still horribly expensive, and whilst in use they are environmentally 'clean', but disposing of them after they have reached their end of life is a BIG environmental problem. Add to that they have an average life of 2~5 years IF treated well.
I see Hydrogen as a perfect fit for home energy needs when / where renewable energy is not always available, and space is not as much of an issue.
What is baffling is you seem to think we are so technologically advanced that we should be able to do this, we are not. Sure we have nifty cellphones and stuffs, and that IS amazing to some degree, but we are nowhere near the technological level needed. We have a long way to go, and we probably won't make it (as a civilization at least).
If we don't destroy ourselves in a nuclear war, we will poison ourselves with all the crap we are doing to the planet.
Off the beaten track and not really relevant, but I hate when people say "We are destroying the planet". We are not destroying the planet, if we all died at once (or there was a rapture, and we were all really good) in 100 years the earth would mostly be back in balance again. We are are not destroying the planet, we are destroying ourselves. It would take a lot more than an ocean of plastic (or even a nuclear war) to destroy the planet.
Keh? Not sure what you were trying to say here, but anyways, MS are not done with mobile. I can easily see people swapping out their laptops for a cellphone that can run any windows app, as soon as the hardware gets to that level I think you will see a large resurgence of MS based phones.
Yes, I am sure, I modified the WFL to compile it faster so we could go to the pub earlier. It may be the exception, but I have come across more than one huge COBOL program. Don't forget with working storage a lot of the "code" is actually just defining memory for usage. I remember one program which when printed out double sided took over a ream of paper. Long story about why they bothered printing it, but yeah, it was that big.
Agreed, my niece and nephew said the same thing about 2 years ago, they might go on to share some pics etc. but for the majority of stuffs they don't touch facebook. Facebook is officially for old timers in their eyes, and if you don't think this matters much, think again. NO ONE has as much free time as a teenager.
Makes me laugh actually, hind sight being 20/20 and all that, I did not realize that school wasn't all that bad in comparison to the hamster wheel that is work. They can't wait to get out of school and get a job and then the "freedom" and money to do as they want. Yeah, takes a year or two to realize you've been had. Hardly any holidays, and if they are in I.T. they can start kissing weekends goodbye as well. Lots of "freedom" awaits them.
It's not just the COBOL language you have to learn, you also have to know JCL (Job Control Language) CICS (Customer Information Control System) and SQL (Structured Query Language) - most programmers will already know SQL - but you are going to have to deal with the little quirks of DB2 sql. Now depending on your environment you MAY have someone else there who is the JCL expert and they can write the jobs, but you still need to know enough to read them otherwise the JCL expert is going to be a VERY busy person. There also might be parts of it written in REXX, so another language to learn. Then there are the commands to do stuffs on the mainframe. V-Series interface is a lot more advanced then a command prompt, but not by much, so you are going to have to learn that as well. Ever worked with keyed sequential files? Gotta learn about those as well. The learning curve is steep, and god forbid you end up on an older A-Series mainframe, because then you have to learn WFL (Workflow Language - predecessor to JCL) as well. Someone mentioned further up that it's not so much the languages you have to learn, but these programs are generally HUGE, millions and millions of lines of COBOL in one program, and THAT is probably the hardest part.
I have a simple phone rule: I don't answer unrecognized numbers.
I do this as well, people get annoyed I am not "contactable" if they are not in my address book, I don't give a shit. People who know me well, know how to get hold of me. Everyone else can go to voice mail. Which I don't ever check. If it's important to me, you should know the right channels to contact me. If you don't, well then it can't be very important to ME. It might be important to YOU, but that is not the same thing in my book.
Considering most of the people on/. are, in the main, IT sort of people, so it's not very surprising someone decided to take matters into their own hands and sort out the problem themselves. Surprised it took this long. I mean, Mirai's source code was available ages ago, I even downloaded it to take a look. What's amusing is my antivirus only picked it up a couple days ago.
Good luck to them, I hope they are hiding their tracks properly, because this is still illegal.
This is the reason my new hobby is dabbling in electronics, at the moment it's messing with Pi's and Arduino's but I am gearing up to move onto PIC's.
I want a smart home, but I don't want any of the expensive proprietary IoT crap that is out there at the moment. Fly by nighters, incompatible protocols, slow to fix security issues, needs internet access to work etc. etc. All my IoT devices are going to be on the LOCAL network only, I might have a outward facing port on a server for monitoring stuffs when I am away, but the devices themselves will not be outward facing.
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Agreed, where I am you can ALWAYS watch netflix and youtube, other streaming sites may be slow as treacle but those two never seem to have an issue. I doubt "net neutrality" has ever been enforced in my country. To be honest they have been shaping certain ports for years, all this means is that they will start shaping depending on destination as well.
So I googled that for you...
https://support.hp.com/us-en/d...
And if it's the TLDR thing then here is the relevant bit
I do the same, ESPECIALLY laptops, I don't need a hidden "recovery" partition sucking up space. Although I generally try get the latest drivers from the manufacturer - preferably BEFORE formatting, although that is sometimes not possible. I remember once having to go buy a memory stick and go to an internet cafe to get network drivers (many moons ago) so that I could get my NIC up and running - the stock Windows drivers did not recognize it.
Why the fuck would Microsoft be distributing HP's software? I very much doubt it came via Windows Update, but I don't mind being corrected, please send links to anything which states it was via Windows Update.
Who ever wrote the driver is an idiot, you don't have to record every bloody keystroke for hot keys, it's built into the windows api.
More specifically in user32.dll there is a method called RegisterHotKey, I've used it plenty times, works like a charm, there was/is no need to monitor every keystroke, and definitely no reason to write it all out to disk.
Or he had some really shitty professors.
I have to admit I have had one or two myself, read from the book / manual / whatever and when you stop them and ask a question they don't have an answer.
Shitty teacher.
And then I have had some really awesome ones, ask a question they can't answer and they go find it and tell you in the next session.
Well thanks for that, did not know there was a media player called groove built into Win10, trying it now.
To be honest I probably won't use it, wrote my own ages ago, main feature is a fucken delete button, deletes a song from my playlist AND the hard drive with one little click. If I don't like a song I want it GONE! Yes I know you can do that in other players, but not with one little click.
Of course you can target poor people, you just need something they would want more than anything else.
There's plenty of stuff like that, but I would bet the following couple would be the best
Porn
Alcohol
Betting
Gambling
Drugs
I worked for a sports betting company for a couple years, they target the "great unwashed" (and trust me, if you walked into a busy branch on a Saturday you realized that statement is VERY true) they didn't put down big bets, but there were so many of them it didn't matter. When the Lehman Brothers collapsed and everyone started closing their wallets their business actually increased.
Desperate times and desperate people, and most of them bet on LONG odds.
I suppose it didn't help that whenever someone actually won a 256/1 bet they would put posters of it up everywhere.
Another war to feed the American industrial military complex, what did you expect?
Why are you even surprised? America has been at (almost) constant war since the American civil war.
America is building tanks it doesn't need (or want) just so that they can keep the factory running in case they need to ramp up production
http://www.military.com/daily-...
Why would any country do that unless the intention was to go to war in the future.
We have to defend against Russian aggression I can only see American aggression from where I am standing.
And your media is all squeaky clean and above board?
I would hold Russia Today in higher regard than ANY of the USA propaganda... I mean media outlets, thank your very much.
That being said I think they are all tools of their respective governments, and they ALL lie!
The days of honest reporting are long gone.
Agreed, it's pointless blaming the developers when they are not the ones calling the shots. I have worked at a couple companies where the deadline for release was set in stone, regardless of ANYTHING else. The project went live and our currency ended up taking a bit of a dip because of the fvck up it caused on the stock exchange (and no, I was not part of THAT project thank god!). Also programming is NOT the same as engineering. Most engineering projects are planned WAY WAY better than 99.999% if I.T. projects, which makes it easier to hit the dead line etc. Now I am not an engineer (well, I was studying for it many moons ago, but I got sidetracked into software) so I may stand corrected, but I am pretty sure most engineering tasks don't hit a snag and grind progress down to a crawl. Look I am sure there are exceptions, but I have encountered weird ass bugs that take forever to hunt down, that was not part of the original project plan!
Considering all the Crypto lockers running around even the "cloud' is not safe, especially if you only realize it AFTER your files are encrypted and get synced with the version on the file, effectively overwriting your "backup' with the encrypted file.
To be honest, the birds and the fishes, there are a handful of people on this planet that I can tolerate, the rest can go fvck themselves.
Look, I wasn't trying to be a troll and bash linux (pun intended) I use Linux at home for my media center and file storage, and Linux has gotten more friendly - but it still has a long way to go before it's as user friendly as Windows.
A LOT of people do not want to use, or learn how to use, the command line.
Until the Linux developers figure that out (Mark tried with Ubuntu) Linux is not going to replace windows. It's that simple. You can spout the incredibleness of scripting and stuffs but if the windows person you are selling it to doesn't give a fuck you are wasting your time. BTW all of this scripting goodness can be done in windows, I always have a power shell open, haven't played with bash on windows yet.
And just to clarify I use the command line all the time, be it in windows or linux.
Reminds me of a quote from bash.org
Batteries are still horribly expensive, and whilst in use they are environmentally 'clean', but disposing of them after they have reached their end of life is a BIG environmental problem. Add to that they have an average life of 2~5 years IF treated well.
I see Hydrogen as a perfect fit for home energy needs when / where renewable energy is not always available, and space is not as much of an issue.
What is baffling is you seem to think we are so technologically advanced that we should be able to do this, we are not. Sure we have nifty cellphones and stuffs, and that IS amazing to some degree, but we are nowhere near the technological level needed. We have a long way to go, and we probably won't make it (as a civilization at least).
If we don't destroy ourselves in a nuclear war, we will poison ourselves with all the crap we are doing to the planet.
Off the beaten track and not really relevant, but I hate when people say "We are destroying the planet". We are not destroying the planet, if we all died at once (or there was a rapture, and we were all really good) in 100 years the earth would mostly be back in balance again. We are are not destroying the planet, we are destroying ourselves. It would take a lot more than an ocean of plastic (or even a nuclear war) to destroy the planet.
We've even started littering on Mars!
Keh? Not sure what you were trying to say here, but anyways, MS are not done with mobile. I can easily see people swapping out their laptops for a cellphone that can run any windows app, as soon as the hardware gets to that level I think you will see a large resurgence of MS based phones.
Yes, I am sure, I modified the WFL to compile it faster so we could go to the pub earlier. It may be the exception, but I have come across more than one huge COBOL program. Don't forget with working storage a lot of the "code" is actually just defining memory for usage. I remember one program which when printed out double sided took over a ream of paper. Long story about why they bothered printing it, but yeah, it was that big.
Agreed, my niece and nephew said the same thing about 2 years ago, they might go on to share some pics etc. but for the majority of stuffs they don't touch facebook. Facebook is officially for old timers in their eyes, and if you don't think this matters much, think again. NO ONE has as much free time as a teenager.
Makes me laugh actually, hind sight being 20/20 and all that, I did not realize that school wasn't all that bad in comparison to the hamster wheel that is work. They can't wait to get out of school and get a job and then the "freedom" and money to do as they want. Yeah, takes a year or two to realize you've been had. Hardly any holidays, and if they are in I.T. they can start kissing weekends goodbye as well. Lots of "freedom" awaits them.
It's not just the COBOL language you have to learn, you also have to know JCL (Job Control Language) CICS (Customer Information Control System) and SQL (Structured Query Language) - most programmers will already know SQL - but you are going to have to deal with the little quirks of DB2 sql. Now depending on your environment you MAY have someone else there who is the JCL expert and they can write the jobs, but you still need to know enough to read them otherwise the JCL expert is going to be a VERY busy person. There also might be parts of it written in REXX, so another language to learn. Then there are the commands to do stuffs on the mainframe. V-Series interface is a lot more advanced then a command prompt, but not by much, so you are going to have to learn that as well. Ever worked with keyed sequential files? Gotta learn about those as well. The learning curve is steep, and god forbid you end up on an older A-Series mainframe, because then you have to learn WFL (Workflow Language - predecessor to JCL) as well. Someone mentioned further up that it's not so much the languages you have to learn, but these programs are generally HUGE, millions and millions of lines of COBOL in one program, and THAT is probably the hardest part.
I do this as well, people get annoyed I am not "contactable" if they are not in my address book, I don't give a shit. People who know me well, know how to get hold of me. Everyone else can go to voice mail. Which I don't ever check. If it's important to me, you should know the right channels to contact me. If you don't, well then it can't be very important to ME. It might be important to YOU, but that is not the same thing in my book.
Considering most of the people on /. are, in the main, IT sort of people, so it's not very surprising someone decided to take matters into their own hands and sort out the problem themselves. Surprised it took this long. I mean, Mirai's source code was available ages ago, I even downloaded it to take a look. What's amusing is my antivirus only picked it up a couple days ago.
Good luck to them, I hope they are hiding their tracks properly, because this is still illegal.
This is the reason my new hobby is dabbling in electronics, at the moment it's messing with Pi's and Arduino's but I am gearing up to move onto PIC's.
I want a smart home, but I don't want any of the expensive proprietary IoT crap that is out there at the moment. Fly by nighters, incompatible protocols, slow to fix security issues, needs internet access to work etc. etc. All my IoT devices are going to be on the LOCAL network only, I might have a outward facing port on a server for monitoring stuffs when I am away, but the devices themselves will not be outward facing.