I just bought my first bilingual keyboard laptop and it is driving me nuts. I'm getting used to the Enter key placement, but that shift key is a pain. I came across this program which lets you remap the bottom-left backslash to shift.
Dropbox states that all files on their servers are encrypted. I had assumed this meant the key was encrypted with your own password, but this exploit suggests that the files either are not encrypted, or encrypted with a freely accessible key.
Also, you don't have to be online to play the base game. However, if you have any DLC, you must be connected to the internet and logged into your BioWare account through Dragon Age to access it -- and if your saved games have any of that content in them, that means you can't load those saved games unless you're connected to the internet.
I have DLC and have no trouble loading my saved games while disconnected from the internet. Oddly enough, while I *am* connected to the internet I occasionally get an error saying I must login to load a saved game with premium content. So far I've always just been able to click "OK", and then "Resume" a second time and I get in just fine.
I'm playing the PC deluxe edition ordered from Impulse.
A router won't alert you when a program or service tries to access your connection, but a software firewall will.
Turn on logging and your router can notify your PC, your email, your blackberry, etc etc.
Hardware firewall via log entry/email: Alert! Your pc has initiated a connection with xyz.com on port 80. I already let this through since you told me to allow all http traffic from your pc, so if it's malicious, tough luck.
Software firewall via immediate popup in current session: Alert! backorifice.exe is attempting to open a connection to xyz.com on port 80. Since you've never authorized this program for any type of network connectivity, I haven't allowed this connection to be made. Do you want to allow it?
Your choice.
Related to this... is there any software for linux that functions in this way? (Blocking connections by program, with gui notification)
But then, to be honest, I'd rather have no web browser bundled with a Windows install, thanks very much.
This comment reminds me of the first modem I had bought in old DOS days. It was OEM and came with no terminal client. I was left there trying to figure out how I could download a terminal client without one to start with.
I suppose you would still have command line FTP...
How does this cost work out in the long run. The iTunes song is yours for "life". If napster closes, there goes your music collection. ALL your downloaded music, GONE. For good.
I'm quite sure with any DRM pay-per-track service, the song isn't "yours for life". Sure I suppose you could keep the DRM file around forever, but it will be useless unless you can authorize new machines and devices. Morally I'd argue that you have the right to strip the DRM, but as you point out, this is illegal in some regions.
Technically (though immoral and likely illegal), you could continue to access all the tracks you had downloaded with a subscription service (with Napster anyways). You just wouldn't be able to move it to a new machine. Just like pay-per-track.
If you were able to find a new subscription service, you could restore your entire collection at no extra cost. A pay-per-track user wouldn't have this option (unless they switched to subscription).
First blue screen I've seen on this 3-month old system... some complaint about sbp2port.sys. Two in a row as I thought the first time might have been a freak occurrence.
DAB isn't AM or FM specific... in fact... I'm not sure if they even relate. Here in Canada we have both FM and AM stations who broadcast in DAB (see earlier post).
A couple years ago I was spending the weekend in Montreal and had left an empty laptop bag in my back seat. The next morning I came out to find the car window had been broken... I spent a little while trying to figure out what they had taken before realizing they probably looked inside the bag, got pissed off and threw it back in the car!!!
It was a very cold and noisy drive home and cost a few hundred bucks to fix though:-(
but seriously, it has six PCI slots (four PCI 33/32 and two PCI 66/64) and I have a card in every slot.
Wow, that's crazy! (Well, to me) What do you have in there? I don't recall ever filling up every pci slot on an atx board (I have a nic, tv card, and a sound blaster card in mine).
In my bank the online banking site allows me to check the balance and that's about it. Doesn't leave too much to the intruder.
My regular bank is a branchless bank in Canada, they're website offers quite a bit of functionality including transferring money to other accounts.
But what really concerns me is *physical* security. I have a small bank account with CIBC (another Canadian bank). I needed about a thousand bucks off my account, so rather than using the atm, i went inside, handed the teller my flimsy plastic access card (no photo id on it, faded signature on the back). He proceeded to tell me the balance of each of my accounts, and then handed me one thousand dollars in return for my signature on a piece of paper. He didn't ask for photo ID. He didn't ask for a pin number or account number. I don't think he even compared the signatures (but even if he did, that's easy enough to forge). I had a serious problem with this but when I asked the teller, he just sort of shrugged and didn't really understand my concern.
Sounds like someone's bitter at how Apple laptops hold their value to me, there's a reason for that you know;-)
I had always heard this but when I tried to sell my 6 month old 12" aluminum powerbook ($2600cdn new), I was surprised to find out I'd be lucky to get more than $1500 for it.
who says the value is far above the real value of goods sent?
I agree... after all, if the P-p-p-powerbook resurfaces and finds it's way on ebay, I'm sure it'll fetch far more than a couple dollars (the value of the goods used in construction).:-)... goddamnit... the scammer could still make his money back....
Technically, I'm breaking the law.... as far as i can tell you aren't... you're not even coming close to it... you're not defeating any encryption schemes, you're not uploading or downloading music... you're not even involving any other parties...
I second this. I bought a 12" 867Mhz Aluminum Powerbook last year. The Apple website boasted 5 hours battery life.... I'm lucky to see 2 1/2 doing nothing but browsing the web with the screen at the lowest brightness.
Meanwhile, my boss on his 14" Dell Pentium-M can sit through a 4 hour meeting typing away the whole time while on the wireless network without powering down.
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I just bought my first bilingual keyboard laptop and it is driving me nuts. I'm getting used to the Enter key placement, but that shift key is a pain. I came across this program which lets you remap the bottom-left backslash to shift.
http://webpages.charter.net/krumsick/
It isn't perfect. It works well when typing words and paragraphs, but doesn't work for highlighting or some other functions.
Dropbox states that all files on their servers are encrypted. I had assumed this meant the key was encrypted with your own password, but this exploit suggests that the files either are not encrypted, or encrypted with a freely accessible key.
From: https://www.dropbox.com/help/27
"All files stored on Dropbox servers are encrypted (AES-256)"
The treadmill companies aren't going to like the sounds of this.
Also, you don't have to be online to play the base game. However, if you have any DLC, you must be connected to the internet and logged into your BioWare account through Dragon Age to access it -- and if your saved games have any of that content in them, that means you can't load those saved games unless you're connected to the internet.
I have DLC and have no trouble loading my saved games while disconnected from the internet. Oddly enough, while I *am* connected to the internet I occasionally get an error saying I must login to load a saved game with premium content. So far I've always just been able to click "OK", and then "Resume" a second time and I get in just fine.
I'm playing the PC deluxe edition ordered from Impulse.
A router won't alert you when a program or service tries to access your connection, but a software firewall will.
Turn on logging and your router can notify your PC, your email, your blackberry, etc etc.
Hardware firewall via log entry/email:
Alert! Your pc has initiated a connection with xyz.com on port 80. I already let this through since you told me to allow all http traffic from your pc, so if it's malicious, tough luck.
Software firewall via immediate popup in current session:
Alert! backorifice.exe is attempting to open a connection to xyz.com on port 80. Since you've never authorized this program for any type of network connectivity, I haven't allowed this connection to be made. Do you want to allow it?
Your choice.
Related to this... is there any software for linux that functions in this way? (Blocking connections by program, with gui notification)
But then, to be honest, I'd rather have no web browser bundled with a Windows install, thanks very much.
This comment reminds me of the first modem I had bought in old DOS days. It was OEM and came with no terminal client. I was left there trying to figure out how I could download a terminal client without one to start with.
I suppose you would still have command line FTP...
How does this cost work out in the long run. The iTunes song is yours for "life". If napster closes, there goes your music collection. ALL your downloaded music, GONE. For good.
I'm quite sure with any DRM pay-per-track service, the song isn't "yours for life". Sure I suppose you could keep the DRM file around forever, but it will be useless unless you can authorize new machines and devices. Morally I'd argue that you have the right to strip the DRM, but as you point out, this is illegal in some regions.
Technically (though immoral and likely illegal), you could continue to access all the tracks you had downloaded with a subscription service (with Napster anyways). You just wouldn't be able to move it to a new machine. Just like pay-per-track.
If you were able to find a new subscription service, you could restore your entire collection at no extra cost. A pay-per-track user wouldn't have this option (unless they switched to subscription).
First blue screen I've seen on this 3-month old system... some complaint about sbp2port.sys. Two in a row as I thought the first time might have been a freak occurrence.
Oh well, now I'll never know if I pass or fail.
Hmmm... I'd be willing to buy that.... but this answer just begs another question: "What's french for toilet?" (Babelfish responds with toilette)
I'm not sure what you mean by "pretend", but win2vnc will let you use one keyboard and mouse for two+ desktops.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/win2vnc/
DAB isn't AM or FM specific... in fact... I'm not sure if they even relate. Here in Canada we have both FM and AM stations who broadcast in DAB (see earlier post).
A couple years ago I was spending the weekend in Montreal and had left an empty laptop bag in my back seat. The next morning I came out to find the car window had been broken... I spent a little while trying to figure out what they had taken before realizing they probably looked inside the bag, got pissed off and threw it back in the car!!!
:-(
It was a very cold and noisy drive home and cost a few hundred bucks to fix though
but seriously, it has six PCI slots (four PCI 33/32 and two PCI 66/64) and I have a card in every slot.
Wow, that's crazy! (Well, to me) What do you have in there? I don't recall ever filling up every pci slot on an atx board (I have a nic, tv card, and a sound blaster card in mine).
In my bank the online banking site allows me to check the balance and that's about it. Doesn't leave too much to the intruder.
My regular bank is a branchless bank in Canada, they're website offers quite a bit of functionality including transferring money to other accounts.
But what really concerns me is *physical* security. I have a small bank account with CIBC (another Canadian bank). I needed about a thousand bucks off my account, so rather than using the atm, i went inside, handed the teller my flimsy plastic access card (no photo id on it, faded signature on the back). He proceeded to tell me the balance of each of my accounts, and then handed me one thousand dollars in return for my signature on a piece of paper. He didn't ask for photo ID. He didn't ask for a pin number or account number. I don't think he even compared the signatures (but even if he did, that's easy enough to forge). I had a serious problem with this but when I asked the teller, he just sort of shrugged and didn't really understand my concern.
Am I the only one who finds this alarming???
've been mugged several times myself, so please excuse my bitterness.
Wow, that sucks. I've never been mugged. I don't even know anyone whose been mugged.... I don't think anyone I know knows anyone who's been mugged...
Oh, and sorry for dropping your "I", it got recruited as an italicize tag.
've been mugged several times myself, so please excuse my bitterness.
/Canadian
/Not saying it doesn't happen... just saying...
Wow, that sucks. I've never been mugged. I don't even know anyone whose been mugged.... I don't think anyone I know knows anyone who's been mugged...
Maybe they are compressed? (Using non-lossy algorithms of course)
I've never heard an entire audience simultaneously sigh "Awwwww" because of a cartoon before
Nice capture for those who are wondering what Ace is talking about (and nice wallpaper for those who do):
Puss in Boots
Sounds like someone's bitter at how Apple laptops hold their value to me, there's a reason for that you know ;-)
I had always heard this but when I tried to sell my 6 month old 12" aluminum powerbook ($2600cdn new), I was surprised to find out I'd be lucky to get more than $1500 for it.
who says the value is far above the real value of goods sent?
:-) ... goddamnit... the scammer could still make his money back....
I agree... after all, if the P-p-p-powerbook resurfaces and finds it's way on ebay, I'm sure it'll fetch far more than a couple dollars (the value of the goods used in construction).
Ah, that's what I was missing then, where you live! I know in Canada (and afaik the US) there's nothing wrong with what you were doing.
:-)
Anyways, hope I didn't come off as some pompous north american ass
Technically, I'm breaking the law .... as far as i can tell you aren't... you're not even coming close to it... you're not defeating any encryption schemes, you're not uploading or downloading music... you're not even involving any other parties...
What am I missing?
It's known to happen in dinosaurs too. C'mon people, didn't we all see this movie? This is truly old news.
/hides in corner for when the mice find a way off the island
Oh! and Miss... what does the "P" stand for?
/obscure?
I second this. I bought a 12" 867Mhz Aluminum Powerbook last year. The Apple website boasted 5 hours battery life.... I'm lucky to see 2 1/2 doing nothing but browsing the web with the screen at the lowest brightness.
Meanwhile, my boss on his 14" Dell Pentium-M can sit through a 4 hour meeting typing away the whole time while on the wireless network without powering down.