...since verticulture is actually a thing. I grow herbs in a home built vertical planter. I grow potatoes in a denim sculpture comprising a pair of jeans filled with compost (it actually stands up on its own).
hey, good thing, mine's W7 as well so this should work for you: Control Panel -> Internet Options (you'll need Classic View for that) Security tab -> Restricted sites -> Sites button Add "https://apps.skype.com" Close/OK, reload Skype.
SCO showed no such thing. No external analyst ever agreed any such thing. SCO never, not one time, showed a single line of code that they could legitimately claim ownership to that was in the mainstream Linux kernel. Which is why they LOST THEIR CASE.
oh, they're arguing about the safety of that now as well... to the point where they've had to invent a silhouette in attempts to stop people vaping up in public open spaces.
I bought a cellphone that had Skype built in. That was the sole and entire reason for buying that particular phone in 2010.
Since Microsoft's first "update" it hasn't worked. Microsoft not only deliberately killed Skype for my phone, they have also discontinued development on the platform.
No warning, either. BAM! Stopped working BETWEEN CALLS.
...to consider is that: 1. Not all Aspies are jerks. 2. In fact, there are conventions to written language that, if people who SPOKE the language followed those conventions there would be fewer conflicts because there would be no ambiguity. 3. Those who insist on using such rapist written language as "TXTSPK" are the jerks for expecting everybody else (or indeed just their clique members) to be able to read and understand the underlying message beneath their lexical drivel. Written English has simple rules, please FOLLOW THEM. 4. Those who do insist on employing deliberate typographical error because they think it makes them "look cool" are in fact "utter jerks" because knowing how to write is not something you are born with: you are taught it at school. Being taught, you can either do it well or not at all; doing it poorly is the epitome of JERK and fucking LAZY.
(This post proofed after composition). Yes, I do put end punctuation outside the parenthesis. Correct English for the win.
of course they don't if they don't need to, the math depends on the entire character space being tested using the given pool. Nobody I know switches between upper and lower case when say making a throwaway email acount.
Your example (thequickbrownFox) by simple virtue of the single character being uppercase actually doubles the character pool from 26 to 52. You get from relatively short timescales (3700 years at rack-full-of-Blade-GPU speeds) to break, to multiples of Universes by the addition of that character space. Now do the same again, only this time with the entire ASCII extended character set.
that's where you get into the quintillion-year break times for relatively short strings. I'm talking about strings using purely the 26-character space in the Latin alphabet.
To start with, disabling tasks under Task Manager or Scheduler doesn’t work, since the GWX process has a kernel hook which checks every so often and relaunches itself if it’s not already running. To me that sounds like a BHO. If you try and disable the scheduled tasks the system tells you you’re not allowed to do that, not even under full admin privileges. That’s malware behaviour. Likewise if you try and delete the GWX folder, which resides in/Windows/System32. Microsoft does not want to let you prevent this from going ahead.
Any right thinking person with even a modicum of computer system security sensibility would now be thinking: it does not matter if Windows 10 free upgrade is good or not. It does not matter if Microsoft has benevolent intentions. The moment you push me into a corner, you corporate pieces of crap, I will fight back with all I can, and you have just turned a loyal owner – and a shareholder – into an enemy. You have made me into a detractor. You have obliterated all and any chance of me ever wanting to even consider upgrading my Windows 7/8 boxes to the new version. In fact, you have made me wish my optical drive was still working so I can rip you out and install an alternative operating system. But really, I don’t have time for that, I just want my system working the way it was before that GWX junk started popping up.
Step 1: take ownership of the GWX folder Go to/Windows/System32/GWX. Right-click, Properties. Then, go to the Security tab, click Advanced. Under the Owner, click on Edit. Select your account rather than whatever crap Microsoft has preselected. Make sure you tick the box that says subfolders and whatnot. Apply the change. Ignore the warnings and prompts.
Step 2: change folder permissions On the right tab, click Edit. Then, select your user. Change the permissions to Full Control, and apply. Then, rename the GWX folder to something like GWX.old. And just in case, inside this folder, you may also want to consider renaming the four executable files. Just use any which extension to cripple their executability. Problem solved. I simply deleted the GWX folder but if you’re not confident, rename it. It does the same thing.
Step 3: delete scheduled tasks Fire up “Regedit” and navigate to HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Schedule\Taskcache\Tasks. What you’ll be faced with is a long list of CLSID entries. These appear to be random (but they’re not and the reason is long and complicated) and the data you want is in the right hand side pane. Go to the Edit menu and click “Find”, type “gwx” (without the quotes) and hit “Find Next”. The application will highlight the first entry, where you’ll see “GWX” under the key-value pair “Path”. On the left pane, locate the hive (folder) that this entry resides in (easy, it should already be highlighted) and export it (right click it) and then right-click delete it. There will by now be eleven entries. You’ll know you’ve got them all when you jump to a new section under.\\TaskCache\Tree\Microsoft\Windows\Setup. There you will be dropped into a hive with two entries: GWC and GWXTriggers. Export both of these and delete them. Launch Task Scheduler and make sure it runs with no errors.
Step 4: disable automatic Windows Update Now you’ve killed GWX, you need to make sure Microsoft isn’t about to work around it and force a new kernel on you without your infdormed consent. Start the Windows Update tool from the control panel and check, it should now be disabled. If it isn’t, go into the settings and adjust to disable automatic updates. You can now either leave WU off and manually install updates after checking them for safety or leave WU altogether and risk missing an actual important update which ma
with 10k words that's still 416 trillion combinations. Even at 2k that's still 664 billion. Thing is you don't know which 10k or 2k to pool from (there are just over 1 million words in the English language as of January 2014 (source: Global Language Monitor)), so let's take from the entire pool: 1,025,000 words. That gives you 4.599E+22 possible combinations. That's forty six heptillion. Random words strung together don't necessarily make sense (horse correct battery staple makes fuck all sense to me, how long would it take a dumb bruteforce to break it?)
Let's do the numbers:
4.599E+22/400 billion (the high estimate of the power of a typical purpose built crackerbox with 200+ GPU cores, in attempts per second)=32 million hours. That's 3700 years.
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...since verticulture is actually a thing. I grow herbs in a home built vertical planter. I grow potatoes in a denim sculpture comprising a pair of jeans filled with compost (it actually stands up on its own).
ON a sphere. ON a sphere. Or are you a Hobbit?
hey, good thing, mine's W7 as well so this should work for you:
Control Panel -> Internet Options (you'll need Classic View for that)
Security tab -> Restricted sites -> Sites button
Add "https://apps.skype.com"
Close/OK, reload Skype.
No more ads! :D
Groklaw rocked. Whatever happened to PJ?
problem is they're no longer a minority.
SCO showed no such thing. No external analyst ever agreed any such thing. SCO never, not one time, showed a single line of code that they could legitimately claim ownership to that was in the mainstream Linux kernel. Which is why they LOST THEIR CASE.
So much this.
Alternatively, you know, just fucking destroy the brain case.
oh, they're arguing about the safety of that now as well... to the point where they've had to invent a silhouette in attempts to stop people vaping up in public open spaces.
I bought a cellphone that had Skype built in. That was the sole and entire reason for buying that particular phone in 2010.
Since Microsoft's first "update" it hasn't worked.
Microsoft not only deliberately killed Skype for my phone, they have also discontinued development on the platform.
No warning, either. BAM! Stopped working BETWEEN CALLS.
Cunts.
what ads? I just added the skype callhome to the list of restricted websites, bam, haven't seen any.
I. Prefer. The. ShatnerComma.
...to consider is that:
1. Not all Aspies are jerks.
2. In fact, there are conventions to written language that, if people who SPOKE the language followed those conventions there would be fewer conflicts because there would be no ambiguity.
3. Those who insist on using such rapist written language as "TXTSPK" are the jerks for expecting everybody else (or indeed just their clique members) to be able to read and understand the underlying message beneath their lexical drivel. Written English has simple rules, please FOLLOW THEM.
4. Those who do insist on employing deliberate typographical error because they think it makes them "look cool" are in fact "utter jerks" because knowing how to write is not something you are born with: you are taught it at school. Being taught, you can either do it well or not at all; doing it poorly is the epitome of JERK and fucking LAZY.
(This post proofed after composition). Yes, I do put end punctuation outside the parenthesis. Correct English for the win.
of course they don't if they don't need to, the math depends on the entire character space being tested using the given pool. Nobody I know switches between upper and lower case when say making a throwaway email acount.
I did the above last August. I haven't seen GWX on any of my systems since.
oh, snap! :D
Your example (thequickbrownFox) by simple virtue of the single character being uppercase actually doubles the character pool from 26 to 52. You get from relatively short timescales (3700 years at rack-full-of-Blade-GPU speeds) to break, to multiples of Universes by the addition of that character space. Now do the same again, only this time with the entire ASCII extended character set.
Yep, good luck bruteforcing THAT.
that's where you get into the quintillion-year break times for relatively short strings. I'm talking about strings using purely the 26-character space in the Latin alphabet.
and they even let you keep the bit of frontal lobe they take out, in a nice little pickle jar you can keep next to your bed!
Sweet.
I have the harcore solution to this.
Here’s how to armour your head.
To start with, disabling tasks under Task Manager or Scheduler doesn’t work, since the GWX process has a kernel hook which checks every so often and relaunches itself if it’s not already running. To me that sounds like a BHO. If you try and disable the scheduled tasks the system tells you you’re not allowed to do that, not even under full admin privileges. That’s malware behaviour. Likewise if you try and delete the GWX folder, which resides in /Windows/System32. Microsoft does not want to let you prevent this from going ahead.
Any right thinking person with even a modicum of computer system security sensibility would now be thinking: it does not matter if Windows 10 free upgrade is good or not. It does not matter if Microsoft has benevolent intentions. The moment you push me into a corner, you corporate pieces of crap, I will fight back with all I can, and you have just turned a loyal owner – and a shareholder – into an enemy. You have made me into a detractor. You have obliterated all and any chance of me ever wanting to even consider upgrading my Windows 7/8 boxes to the new version. In fact, you have made me wish my optical drive was still working so I can rip you out and install an alternative operating system. But really, I don’t have time for that, I just want my system working the way it was before that GWX junk started popping up.
Step 1: take ownership of the GWX folder /Windows/System32/GWX. Right-click, Properties. Then, go to the Security tab, click Advanced. Under the Owner, click on Edit. Select your account rather than whatever crap Microsoft has preselected. Make sure you tick the box that says subfolders and whatnot. Apply the change. Ignore the warnings and prompts.
Go to
Step 2: change folder permissions
On the right tab, click Edit. Then, select your user. Change the permissions to Full Control, and apply. Then, rename the GWX folder to something like GWX.old. And just in case, inside this folder, you may also want to consider renaming the four executable files. Just use any which extension to cripple their executability. Problem solved. I simply deleted the GWX folder but if you’re not confident, rename it. It does the same thing.
Step 3: delete scheduled tasks .\\TaskCache\Tree\Microsoft\Windows\Setup. There you will be dropped into a hive with two entries: GWC and GWXTriggers. Export both of these and delete them. Launch Task Scheduler and make sure it runs with no errors.
Fire up “Regedit” and navigate to HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Schedule\Taskcache\Tasks. What you’ll be faced with is a long list of CLSID entries. These appear to be random (but they’re not and the reason is long and complicated) and the data you want is in the right hand side pane. Go to the Edit menu and click “Find”, type “gwx” (without the quotes) and hit “Find Next”. The application will highlight the first entry, where you’ll see “GWX” under the key-value pair “Path”. On the left pane, locate the hive (folder) that this entry resides in (easy, it should already be highlighted) and export it (right click it) and then right-click delete it. There will by now be eleven entries. You’ll know you’ve got them all when you jump to a new section under
Step 4: disable automatic Windows Update
Now you’ve killed GWX, you need to make sure Microsoft isn’t about to work around it and force a new kernel on you without your infdormed consent. Start the Windows Update tool from the control panel and check, it should now be disabled. If it isn’t, go into the settings and adjust to disable automatic updates. You can now either leave WU off and manually install updates after checking them for safety or leave WU altogether and risk missing an actual important update which ma
you might want to update your dictionary, I think your speelchukker's b0rked.
A P90 *year* is equivalent to about 10GFLOPS. IBM's BlueGene/L ran 596TFLOPS. That's about 1.8 trillion times faster.
with 10k words that's still 416 trillion combinations. Even at 2k that's still 664 billion. Thing is you don't know which 10k or 2k to pool from (there are just over 1 million words in the English language as of January 2014 (source: Global Language Monitor)), so let's take from the entire pool: 1,025,000 words. That gives you 4.599E+22 possible combinations. That's forty six heptillion. Random words strung together don't necessarily make sense (horse correct battery staple makes fuck all sense to me, how long would it take a dumb bruteforce to break it?)
Let's do the numbers:
4.599E+22/400 billion (the high estimate of the power of a typical purpose built crackerbox with 200+ GPU cores, in attempts per second)=32 million hours. That's 3700 years.
whoa, deja vu. That's close to other stuff I've been saying on an entirely different subject...
nope. Intel 8080, which was the next step up from the 8008 and the predecessor to the 8085.