Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada shouldn't be called SOCAN, it should be SCAMP (or maybe SCAMPoCAN), however, I don't see this def of SCAMP listed at Acronym Finder Search: What does SCAMP stand for?.
A Firefox Dictionary Search found some interesting and appropriate definitions of SCAMP:
\Scamp\ (sk[a^]mp), n. [OF. escamper to run away, to make one's escape. Originally, one who runs away, a fugitive, a vagabond. See Scamper.] A rascal; a swindler; a rogue. --De Quincey.
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, (c) 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
\Scamp\, v. t. [Cf. Scamp,n., or Scant, a., and Skimp.] To perform in a hasty, neglectful, or imperfect manner; to do superficially. [Colloq.]
A workman is said to scamp his work when he does it in a superficial, dishonest manner. --Wedgwood.
Much of the scamping and dawdling complained of is that of men in establishments of good repute. --T. Hughes.
I replaced my Thinkpad 365XD after dumping a cup of coffee on it. It was cheaper to byuy a refurbed unit than to pay IBM for the replacement keyboard and motherboard.
IMHO if you can take the time to whine "Registration required", you can take the time to look for alternate locations of the story. A quick google for the subject of the NYT story turned up this alternate NO REGISTRATION REQUIRED link.
Lots of other locations are carrying a related story,
Is 'global dimming' under way?
By Robert S. Boyd.
You wrote: Well, if you'd check the links in the news item you'd notice this is an enforcement of the law.. The law allows color reproductions of currency under certain conditions. From the page you cited:
U.S. Currency
The Counterfeit Detection Act of 1992, Public Law 102-550, in Section 411 of Title 31 of the Code of Federal Regulations, permits color illustrations of U.S. currency provided:
1. the illustration is of a size less than three-fourths or more than one and one-half, in linear dimension, of each part of the item illustrated;
2. the illustration is one-sided; and
3. all negatives, plates, positives, digitized storage medium, graphic files, magnetic medium, optical storage devices, and any other thing used in the making of the illustration that contain an image of the illustration or any part thereof are destroyed and/or deleted or erased after their final use.
How does PS know what I'm doing with the currency if it blocks ALL use of it?
AFAIK XP's internal firewall doesn't block outbound activity, making it pretty worthless as a software firewall IMHO.
If you want to block outbound traffic you need something like ZoneAlarm or Agnitum Outpost, both of which have free-for-personal-use versions available.
DATE: 20/08/2003
SCO Preparing Legal Action Against Customer
By Matthew Aslett
SCO Group Inc is preparing to take a Linux user to court to speed up the legal process in its claim Unix code has been illegally copied into Linux, and also encourage Linux users to take out a license for its intellectual property.
The reason college degrees are required for real-world jobs is that someone who has a coll.degree has demonstrated a willingness to put up with a certain amount of useless bullsh!t to achieve a goal. This (the ability to put up with sh!t to accomplish an end) has demonstrated value to the corporate world.
FWIW the website at that IP address has a "news" link which shows nothing newer than 25 Dec 2002. Is the site that dead or is the IP site an old mirror?
FWIW if you don't want to use Windows Update to update your PC you can download the patches from the WU Catalog and patch it without letting M$ collect the info on your hard/software.
Unfortunately the Catalog only runs under IE, and you have to trust M$ not to use IE + Catalog to gather the same info. I wonder if that has been looked at?
Actually you can only read the first 2-3 pgs of the article. On the third page you see
The following pages are restricted to users of our Premium service. If you are not member you can buy the externer Linkcomplete article as a PDF-file for Euro 1.99. Included you will find a complementary copy of the tools we used to find out what is going on with Windows Update.
How To Read NYTimes Articles without registration
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Traffic Cops for Space
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Since google is a NYTimes partner, it's possible to click to google and thence to the NYTimes article without allowing nytimes.com to track you. For example, for this story, click here: Wanted: Traffic Cops for Space site:nytimes.com and then click the resulting NYtimes story.
Who cares? I actually set up an old box I had lying around with Win98 and no NIC and let him install a new NIC plus his software. After he left, I nuked the HDD and went back to my other stuff. This way I got the free NIC that they wouldn't have given me had I had a computer already NICked.
Sed quis custodiet ipsos custodes? It doesn't matter where the data are; if they're on a central server, they're at risk -- all it takes is some disaffected sysadmin type or his boss or an FBI/NKVD/Gestapo type, and your personal details are public.
I carry all my logins etc. in my PalmOS device, encrypted in a Blowfish-protected database, and synched to my personal computer when I'm back in the office. I have to enter one decent password to get at my data, and if I lose the PDA I suppose someone could crack it if they *_really_* wanted to, but at least I know the data are NOT on a Microsoft/Sun/Liberty Alliance box where some disaffected BOFH can get to it.
I have found that Win98 boxes that won't shut down properly will almost always restart in DOS prompt without problems. So I found a DOS-based POWEROFF.EXE and place that on problematic machines with a shortcut that requires POWEROFF run in MS-DOS mode. Depending on the attitude of the user, I'll have the shortcut warn her or not. Works like a champ.
Re:How do you rescind acceptance of the EULA?
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When the Windows Media Player patch came out, I installed it on a box that I sometimes use. It was only later that I found out about the DRM component of the EULA. I immediately removed WMP.
And just how, pray tell, did you do that? WMP is hard-wired in to my Win2k system; "removing" WMP 7.1 and patches just reverts to WMP 6.4, which is vulnerable to most of the same holes and requires the same patches.
Plus Win2kSP3 has the same EULA and we can expect future WinPatches to have the same EULA.
Time to find a different platform [sigh]
Re:Pretty simple setup... not so $$$
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Cheap KVM Over IP?
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Sure it will.
OmniView(TM) ENTERPRISE Series Remote IP Console
Belkin Part Number: F1DE101N
The Belkin Enterprise Series Remote IP Console (the Console) allows users to control, view, and administrate a server or multiple servers connected to a KVM switch remotely over a TCP/IP network. The Console enables the administrator to access the information stored on the servers, as well as to reset the hardware, access BIOS, and reset power. Unlike other KVM-over-IP solutions, the Console works with all PS/2-based servers and does not require additional software to support multiple operating systems. The Console uses the banking industry's 128-bit SSL encryption to prevent unauthorized personnel from accessing the server. Offering the easiest installation and setup in the industry, the Console monitors server activities and notifies administrators if and when problems arise. Its advanced capabilities far surpass current methods of remote server administration.
The Belkin Advantage:
Remote control of a server or KVM switch over a TCP/IP network
VGA Video Emulation (even with power off)
Remote power on/off or server-reset capability
Standard web browser remote viewing
Support for VNC (Virtual Network Computing) remote display
128-bit SSL encryption with three security levels and three security modes: Relaxed, Stealth, and Turtle
Support for up to 10 users
Features:
Serial port monitoring and switching capability for serial devices
Flash-Upgradeability
PS/2 keyboard and mouse support
One local port for direct KVM access to your server
Automatic server monitoring and notification
This is $3100 or so from Provantage; add a KVM at the server end and you're flying.
Nothing low-end, though, you'll have to roll your own with a PC Weasel ($250-$250/server) and a remote machine you can SSL to and then use as a serial terminal for the PC Weasels. You'd need a multi-port COM card for the SSL box as well, and you'll have to disable any onboard video to let the weasel control the servers.
<blockquote><i>If you remove WMP completely...</i></blockquote>I'd dearly love to rip this viral-license security hole out of my system if I could, but I don't think it's possible to uninstall WMP completely. Although you can remove WMP 7.1, Win98 reverts back to WMP 6.4, which is subject to the same hole, same patch, same EULA virus.<p>Anybody here have a line on a WMP-remover?<br>
Receive new-mail as ASCII files 9just as now), store them in a database. Attachments should be decoded and stored as binary objects in the database, with the ability to extract them and save them. The extraction process would leave behind info about when they were extracted and where they were saved. Following them after that would be up to the user.
Database could be MySQL or some other common OS SQL database.
Slashdot Mirror
A Firefox Dictionary Search found some interesting and appropriate definitions of SCAMP:
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, (c) 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
Source: WordNet ® 2.0, © 2003 Princeton University
I replaced my Thinkpad 365XD after dumping a cup of coffee on it. It was cheaper to byuy a refurbed unit than to pay IBM for the replacement keyboard and motherboard.
See this story at Computer Reseller News, which claims McAfee is for sale and Microsoft may be the only buyer in sight.
Lots of other locations are carrying a related story, Is 'global dimming' under way? By Robert S. Boyd.
If you want to block outbound traffic you need something like ZoneAlarm or Agnitum Outpost, both of which have free-for-personal-use versions available.
If you install software that tells you it's going to phone home to verify its licensing, you get what you pay for.
Of course, if the software installation proc. doesn't disclose this, then IMHO it is spyware.
YMMV, of course. ....
I usually find Book Pool to be less expensive AND they're NOT Amazon, but they don't carry this title (yet?).
Angus
You can register for each story with a different login and password and retain total untrackability.
Of course, if you always browse from the same IP address, you're stuck with that as a hole in your privacy shield.
Angus
To do this it provides some web-based tools:
The reason college degrees are required for real-world jobs is that someone who has a coll.degree has demonstrated a willingness to put up with a certain amount of useless bullsh!t to achieve a goal. This (the ability to put up with sh!t to accomplish an end) has demonstrated value to the corporate world.
FWIW the website at that IP address has a "news" link which shows nothing newer than 25 Dec 2002. Is the site that dead or is the IP site an old mirror?
Unfortunately the Catalog only runs under IE, and you have to trust M$ not to use IE + Catalog to gather the same info. I wonder if that has been looked at?
Since google is a NYTimes partner, it's possible to click to google and thence to the NYTimes article without allowing nytimes.com to track you. For example, for this story, click here: Wanted: Traffic Cops for Space site:nytimes.com and then click the resulting NYtimes story.
Who cares? I actually set up an old box I had lying around with Win98 and no NIC and let him install a new NIC plus his software. After he left, I nuked the HDD and went back to my other stuff. This way I got the free NIC that they wouldn't have given me had I had a computer already NICked.
I carry all my logins etc. in my PalmOS device, encrypted in a Blowfish-protected database, and synched to my personal computer when I'm back in the office. I have to enter one decent password to get at my data, and if I lose the PDA I suppose someone could crack it if they *_really_* wanted to, but at least I know the data are NOT on a Microsoft/Sun/Liberty Alliance box where some disaffected BOFH can get to it.
YMMV.
And just how, pray tell, did you do that? WMP is hard-wired in to my Win2k system; "removing" WMP 7.1 and patches just reverts to WMP 6.4, which is vulnerable to most of the same holes and requires the same patches.
Plus Win2kSP3 has the same EULA and we can expect future WinPatches to have the same EULA.
Time to find a different platform [sigh]
See also http://www.kvmswitchoverip.com/ and http://www.kvm-switches-online.com/remote-access-s ervers.html for other solutions. I think these guys both have Raritans which haven't been mentioned yet.
Nothing low-end, though, you'll have to roll your own with a PC Weasel ($250-$250/server) and a remote machine you can SSL to and then use as a serial terminal for the PC Weasels. You'd need a multi-port COM card for the SSL box as well, and you'll have to disable any onboard video to let the weasel control the servers.
So why not set up a VNC box from which you use a serial port terminal to connect to the Realweasel on your final target machines?
<blockquote><i>If you remove WMP completely ...</i></blockquote>I'd dearly love to rip this viral-license security hole out of my system if I could, but I don't think it's possible to uninstall WMP completely. Although you can remove WMP 7.1, Win98 reverts back to WMP 6.4, which is subject to the same hole, same patch, same EULA virus.<p>Anybody here have a line on a WMP-remover?<br>
Receive new-mail as ASCII files 9just as now), store them in a database. Attachments should be decoded and stored as binary objects in the database, with the ability to extract them and save them. The extraction process would leave behind info about when they were extracted and where they were saved. Following them after that would be up to the user. Database could be MySQL or some other common OS SQL database.