It's pretty simple when any user can access and change the registry. Just put an entry in HKEY_Local_Machine/Software/Microsoft/Windows/Curr ent_version/Run - You can run whatever you want at startup, regardless of user privledge.
First time I leared this, my mouth just dropped wide open.
You know, I've been reading these stories about how geeks feel lonely and aliented in high school, as if everyone else is having a great time. I've got news for all of these people: EVERYONE feels lonely, alienated, picked on, and an outcast in high school. With the POSSIBLE exception of the captian of the football team and the prom queen. It's part natural teenage emotion, and partially just the general cruelty that kids at that age treat each other with. Beacause everyone feels like an outcast, they just find someone else to ridicule so they can feel like they actually belong. And thus the viscious cycle continues.
So, while geeks seem to be the target of the recent witch-hunt in schools around the country, and we are right to feel indignant, remember that we do NOT corner the market on alienation.
Why? Security. If you install RedHat (or any other distribution) without paying attention to the security updates/alerts, you are basically asking crackers and script kiddies to invade your network. Yes, NT has many more security flaws, and yes, when security holes are found in a Linux distribution, fixes are immediately provided. But that doesn't help if a brain-dead admin or support drone doesn't pay attention to the security alerts.
The fact is, script kiddies run around, doing constant port scans of LANs, and as soon as a new *nix box appears, they try to get in through whatever well-documented hole they can find. And then use the foothold to snoop around for unencrypted passwords flying across the internal network. Now, if you are a financial institution with millions of dollars of electronic money at stake, do you really want to risk that?
Of course, the idea that you are any better off security-wise with NT is silly. But hey, at least there's someone to sue!:-)
Am I the only person who thinks that this is a Bad Idea? It brings the amount of damage that virii can do to a whole new level. I mean, you can just flash a CPU to give a new instruction that says, like, "e-mail a complete memory dump to so-and-so..."
What would be cool would be to have a complete OS kernel in flash ROM, or actually on the CPU die itself.
Yes, my first Netscape was 1.2, back in Sept. 1995. I had a friend who grabbed Netscape a week earlier, and she got the throbbing N. I'm not sure what the version number was on it, but I think it was 1.1. I have the installer sitting around somewhere, either on my old Windows box or on CD-R. I should probably go look.
Gecko is bringing back the throbbing N (according to the screenshot)! Boy does that bring back memories. Of running N1.1 on my Win 3.1 box. Actually, "running" isn't a good word for it. More like "sputtering." More than two images on one page caused it to crash.
...is to kill MP3. Think about it. They get everyone hooked on a new, fancy, high quality sound format that doesn't encode well into MP3, so that people keep paying money for music instead of getting "low quality" versions for free off of the internet.
Oh, well. I suppose record producers have to eat, too.
I think they should find a balance between increasing quality and capacity. If the disk can fit seven times more data, make the audio format 32-bit, 88.2 K sample rate. Four times the audio quality, and you can still fit over 2 hours of music onto one disk.
Businesses may embrace Windows 2000. The media may forget about Linux completely. And you know what? Linux will keep chugging right along, with its army of dedicated, talented developers, and devoted geek user base.
In the long term, Linux is destined to rule all operating systems. Why? Because the ruling techno-elite of the future, I mean the people who will head up IT departments and be making all of the real decisions, are all Linux enthusiasts today. The Comp. Sci. majors running Linux and *BSD boxen in their dorm rooms today will be dominating the industry tomorrow.
So, Linux is not a short term phenomina. In the very least, it is the future of a long and glorious UNIX tradition; at most, it is the future of the Opreating System.
Yes, yes. If we get enough folks from the Malden Family of Newsgroups (flonkers, nosers, antUers, etc.) to Slashdot, we could create so much WBPA that there's no WAY they could possibly moderate it all.
You'll stay in a luxury beachhouse through Saturday, May 29 and enjoy all the sites of Wrightsville Beach and Wilmington, NC, as you have fun in the sun.
I'm not sure if this is or isn't a typo. Do geeks enjoy looking at non-geek females? I've heard that beaches have quite a few of those.
Recently, I started again, and noticed that all of the big eight (or however many) hierarchies had "meow" groups (i.e., comp.meow, news.meow, talk.meow, etc.). I presume that relates, but how?
The meow groups were started by the "everyone should be able to newgroup" kooks, in deference to the meowers.
My favorite is news.admin.meow. You'll fine that most of what's in there is also xposted to the center of the meow universe: alt.fan.karl-malden.nose
The kernel source really helps no one. What we need is the GUI source, so that we can easily do froody things like port between X11 and Win32. Of course, if M$ were to release any actual API code, that would mean Linux and WinE would put M$ out of business for good.
So, don't expect any useful code to be released any time soon.
You know, Scott James Remnant's little prank here pretty much amounts to a publicity stunt for Segfault. I expect readership to increase fivefold after this.
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S is for SVGA [1]
It is amusing that someone so bent on "proper" names for systems refers to the X Window System as "X Windows" (shudder).
First time I leared this, my mouth just dropped wide open.
So, while geeks seem to be the target of the recent witch-hunt in schools around the country, and we are right to feel indignant, remember that we do NOT corner the market on alienation.
That Swatch hijacked this satellite also? ;-)
The fact is, script kiddies run around, doing constant port scans of LANs, and as soon as a new *nix box appears, they try to get in through whatever well-documented hole they can find. And then use the foothold to snoop around for unencrypted passwords flying across the internal network. Now, if you are a financial institution with millions of dollars of electronic money at stake, do you really want to risk that?
Of course, the idea that you are any better off security-wise with NT is silly. But hey, at least there's someone to sue! :-)
One of these cards + 30 GB removables = some pretty snazzy AVIs that I could make.
What would be cool would be to have a complete OS kernel in flash ROM, or actually on the CPU die itself.
Yes, my first Netscape was 1.2, back in Sept. 1995. I had a friend who grabbed Netscape a week earlier, and she got the throbbing N. I'm not sure what the version number was on it, but I think it was 1.1. I have the installer sitting around somewhere, either on my old Windows box or on CD-R. I should probably go look.
The complete works of Led Zeppelin/Mozart/Rob Malda, all on one disk, perhaps?
Why was this comment scored -1? The poster was telling us that he was trying out Mozilla. Perfectly on-topic.
Blegh.
Ah, nostalgia!
Oh, well. I suppose record producers have to eat, too.
I think they should find a balance between increasing quality and capacity. If the disk can fit seven times more data, make the audio format 32-bit, 88.2 K sample rate. Four times the audio quality, and you can still fit over 2 hours of music onto one disk.
In the long term, Linux is destined to rule all operating systems. Why? Because the ruling techno-elite of the future, I mean the people who will head up IT departments and be making all of the real decisions, are all Linux enthusiasts today. The Comp. Sci. majors running Linux and *BSD boxen in their dorm rooms today will be dominating the industry tomorrow.
So, Linux is not a short term phenomina. In the very least, it is the future of a long and glorious UNIX tradition; at most, it is the future of the Opreating System.
It's worth looking into.
I'm not sure if this is or isn't a typo. Do geeks enjoy looking at non-geek females? I've heard that beaches have quite a few of those.
Timestamps in miliseconds, perhaps?
The meow groups were started by the "everyone should be able to newgroup" kooks, in deference to the meowers.
My favorite is news.admin.meow. You'll fine that most of what's in there is also xposted to the center of the meow universe: alt.fan.karl-malden.nose
Yes, that too was the work of the meowers.
The explanation of the 1980s BBS losers is very amusing. I sorely miss they days before they all migrated to the Internet.
One more thing: no explanation of the Meow Usenet phenomena? That was, like, THE online event of the past three years. Oh, well.
I've often wondered if you could type "man man man" and get the man page for the man page on man.
I also like the RFC from 1972 I read about security: "The root password should not be the hostname backwards."
So, don't expect any useful code to be released any time soon.
University Book Store is shutting down?
As a regular Segfault writer, I say, Yippeeeee!