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  1. Re:customary... on A Simple Plan To Defeat Dumb Patents · · Score: 1


    I patent a technical means or website or software to send pre-filled forms to people to ephasise or make by another means your point of view valid. :-)

  2. it's called backup software, not restore software! on Tech Magazine Loses June Issue, No Backup · · Score: 1

    it's called backup software, not restore software!
    so it does backups. that's all.

    You would be better off to buy a restore program. That usually would need to have a backup part build in to actually ba able to do the restore.

  3. Re:use a data vault on Digital Media Archiving Challenges Hollywood · · Score: 1

    > Unfortunately, if such a thing exists, it hasn't really become mainstream yet.

    EMC centera http://www.emc.com/products/systems/centera.jsp

  4. Re:Why do online sites need to store CC#s at all? on Steam Hacked, Credit Card Numbers Taken · · Score: 1

    even better:
    1) you click on checkout
    2) the company directs you to the card processor
    3) you enter your CC there
    4) the card processor tells the company if it's valid
    5) you get your goods

    The internet shop NEVER sees the CC number
    Instead of 1000 shops needing security you only need to secure a couple of processors, typically your bank or similar.
    The shop even does not really need to have any SSL ...

  5. Miele Washers on Bad Security Driving Out the Good · · Score: 1

    My parents had a Mile washer for decades. Then bought another brand (cheaper) when the old one finally died. Just to replace it with a Miele because that seems to be the only brand not to build cheap washers but robust ones. And they now have a reputation for their great quality. And this just because all other products on the market lowered their quality.

  6. best protection: password manager on Boarding Pass Hacker Targets Bank of America · · Score: 1

    I store my password in my password manager (firefox) that way if it's filled in, I'm shure that I'm on the right site.
    I'm quite annoyed by yahoo that they disable this feature so I have to type the password in each time, and it already happened that I got phished because of that.

    The password manager offers the same protection than SiteKey because it's also linked to the browser. But it is more convenient. Just forget your password and if it's not filled in automatically it can't be phished. I came across many paypal and ebay phishing sites and this method protected me effectively.

  7. Re:Ponies on Top 10 April Fools Stories · · Score: 1

    and ctrl-C for cancel

  8. Re:They've had a robot vaccum for a couple of year on Dyson Preparing a Roomba Killer? · · Score: 1


    all sensors already in the house, if you have a Wii. So just switch on the Wii, put up the sensor bar, load the WiiVacRobot software. Stick the Wiimote into the robot and off you go. Remote controlled robot, no real expensive embedded software needed.

  9. Re:Credit card numbers are stored too. on Firefox 2.0 Password Manager Bug Exposes Passwords · · Score: 1

    a correctly implemented e-commerce site disables autocompleting on those fields.

    form name="payment" action="process.cgi" method="post" autocomplete="off"

    Easy...
    Georges

  10. Re:If we can count them... on Phishers Arrested In Eastern Europe and US · · Score: 1


    do you do it proactive? Like run a search robot on new files if they are copies of bank sites. Or run some network scanner which triggers an alarm if it sees the login page of yahoo/ebay/paypal etc fly by. It could even drop the connection...

    If you are annoyed by the 15 sites to shut down because people email you that there are phish sites up, it is more interesting to not make it possible to run phishing sites in the first place. The hackers will get annoyed and move to another ISP.

    good ida? bad idea?
    I know an ISP who simply blocks port 6667 because too many script kiddies attack IRC. No IRC, no problems.

  11. Re:Freeze your own! on Lego Christmas Production Shortage · · Score: 1

    Idea:
    you have to make a metal mold with the bumps.
    then heat that metal thing up and press the lego-icecubes on it. result: notches.
    Practicability: low

    Idea:
    take a wood plate, stick BIG nails into it, cut off the heads, you get a forest of pins
    place this over the forms while in freezer.
    practicability: needs precision working.

    Idea:
    Just use real lego bricks! Place them over the form and you get the right holes
    practicability: easy but notches might be too small

  12. cannot register sex.lu in luxembourg on Adult .IE Domain Names Banned As Immoral · · Score: 1

    > or example comparing the life of citizens of Luxembourg to the life of Rwandanese people

    Same goes for Luxembourg where it's apparently not possible to register the sex.lu domain (and probably also any other "offending" one)

  13. Re:Responsibility, not intelligence, is what you w on Will Solve Captcha for Money? · · Score: 1

    I had my guestbook spammed continiously (it's the one from Matt's Scripts archive). So I modified it.
    On the URL entry field I have now the text "enter an url here if you want this message to be marked as spam" (and if you do, it's not saved to the guestbook). I need no links in my guestbook anyway, only spammers need them.
    Then I have some javascript which enables the submit button only after 5 seconds. If the entry is delivered earlier, it's a script, not a browser.
    Then I check if the user took 30 seconds or more to submit. I don't need guestbook entries where people don't think half a minute about what they write.

    The form is not changed in a way, so the bots still find a Matt's Script guestbook and try to spam it. They all fail. Even cut/paste manual spammers fail. Some silly enough to put in an URL, the others just paste too fast.

    Result: exactly zero spam

  14. 6th sense fan on Computer Voodoo? · · Score: 1

    My fan was making noise, I tried everything but visibly the bearings were worn out. So I got a new one. When I came home to replace it, the old fan didn't make any noise anymore. And it is still silent today. The new fan sits on top of the case. I think as soon as I remove it, the old fan will get noisy again :-)

  15. Diebold ATMs have paper trails... on Voting Isn't Easy, Even if Cheating Is · · Score: 1

    ...which only give out a limited amount of cash.
    Voting machines cannot, but can lead to billions spent for nothing and global thermonuclear war on terrorsim.

  16. Re:BSG vs B5 on Babylon 5 Coming Back? · · Score: 1


    I think Battlestar Galactica failed miserably in Europe, at least in Germany, the big place for Star Trek and Stargate and any other form of SciFi.

    BSG used the old trick to say that the bad guys just look like us so we don't have to use expensive CGI or masks. Remembers me of "V". BSG was the worst series I have seen this year. Hey I watched most of Taken, but just quit BSG after several episodes.

    YUCK!

  17. Re:HPOVSD on Support Desk Software for ITIL-Based IT Department · · Score: 1

    we use SD and works ok for us. Except for the merge instead of reload, so if the popup comes, just hit F5 to reload the ticket.
    Of course if you modified since, that will be lost, so put it into copy/paste.
    This merge problem only happens to me when I create myself a ticket. So, create ticket, save, press F5. Problem solved.

  18. only a usage license? my ass! on Sony 'Anti-Used Game' Patent Explored · · Score: 1

    Hey, if I only puchase a usage licence but not the movie, why can't I get a replacement DVD for my scratched media but need to pay the full license again to buy a new one?

    Try it in any shop.

  19. Re:I _was_ the horror story! on Your Favorite Support Anecdote · · Score: 1

    something like that happened to me, nothing works and being forced to do some hexdump stuff. And being my own caller and support guy.
    So I am remote connected via ssh to a linux box, and for some upgrading at some point I had to replace /lib.
    Ok:
    # mv /lib /old-lib
    # mv /new-lib /lib
    Error, cannot find libdld.sl

    Uhh...
    so what do we have now? An open ssh shell, a running bash and no statically linked programs on the box. And the box is 1000 miles away.
    I need to get something on the machine to make the dir rename.

    Idea is to convert a statically linked ash into an endless series of echo "hexcodes..." >> /tmp/ash and then cut/paste this into the shell. Writing the conversion program was a little challenge. The result was a 1000 lines of 800 characters long lines of shellscript.
    After half an hour of pasting comes the moment of running my new shell.
    # /tmp/ash
    cannot execute
    # chmod 700 /tmp/ash
    Error, cannot find libdld.sl

    Argghhh! I need to overwrite an already executable file so I don't have to make the chmod.
    Ok, another half an hour later doing echo "hexcodes..." >> /usr/bin/bc (I needed some victim)
    # /usr/bin/bc
    #
    # mv /new-lib /lib
    # exit

    and all work again. That was hard...

  20. Re:Personal 'feaures' on Your Favorite Support Anecdote · · Score: 1


    just to tell you this EXACT story happened here too. All times blanc characters inserted in datastream. Took 1 month to finally get down to find the problem between keyboard and chair.

  21. Re:Ok, here's my best tech support story on Your Favorite Support Anecdote · · Score: 1


    I have my PC covered with magnets http://www.thinkgeek.com/geektoys/cubegoodies/3627 / and it works with 0 problems. Must be that today's shielding is better. I did avoid putting magnets where the HD sits, who knows...
    I'm admin on the machine, so if it breaks, that's then my problem.

  22. Re:My Linux Annoyances as a Hardended Windows user on Linux Annoyances For Geeks · · Score: 1

    > A non-issue in Debian and Ubuntu. In GNOME, gstreamer-0.10 has support for virtually every audio/video codec, and it's included as a core component of GNOME.

    not true (at least in gstreamer 0.8) unless you do this

    apt-get install gstreamer* gxine libgstreamer* libxine* totem-xine xine-ui

    and perhaps some more. But you have to know what to install
    My dream would be "cannot play that, do you want to install software so that it plays [yes] [no]" dialog.

    Oh and with which mysterious application I should play simple wav files?

  23. Re:Yoga on Do You Have a PC Posture? · · Score: 1


    I regularly sit in lotus at my desk. Not a posture to keep a whole day, but it gives the back some different pose. And that's what's all about, do not stay the same all day around, move!

    Georges
    PS: some yogic pics on my webpage

  24. Re:Wound construction on EU Proposing Mandatory Battery Recycling · · Score: 1


    flat cells (phones) are usually done by folding the plates in layers instead of rolling. Folded square batteries waste less space compared if you need to use more than one round cell.

  25. Re:standardized LiIon battery? on EU Proposing Mandatory Battery Recycling · · Score: 1


    do you know of any place or referece where I could find information about LiIon cells. Specially AAA size.

    Georges