Don't know how much you Americans pay to rent your DVDs , but all the major australian rental stores charge the same price for DVDs as videocassetes, with quite a few new releases being 'special edition' types with an extra DVD.
Waitaminnit... "new release" rental prices *have* been creeping up... maybe they just up the VHS price and lower the DVD one to match!!
People look for ".com", then ".net", then ".org". Anything beyond those major TLDs rarely crosses the mind of most surfers. Hell, most people (who don't deal with it every day) have to be *reminded* about ".gov", thus the success of www.whitehouse.com (link intentionally left un-linked.;-) )
Don't forget the secretive.mil TLD
Wait, no, I didn't say that!
I'm probably a threat to (U.S.) national security now.
All throughout the Earth there is evidence of dramatic gravitational changes int he past. For example, below all the ice in the northern reaches of Canada there are vast reserves of coal. Since coal is made through the decay of organic matter, it means there had to be a massive forest up there at some time. Then in the deserts of Africa there are mountains where they find seashells like 1000 feet above sea level.
Perhaps the moon pulling away from the Earth has caused many of the major changes on the Earth..
*cough*Plate Tectonics!*cough*
Coal was generally formed from about 300 to 65 million years ago. That's a lot of time for them continents to wander. That 'massive forest up there' was probably some massive forest down here 300 million years ago.
The products on this list, if contained in a package or envelope that has been irridiated, should not be used. You should discard them and obtain replacements.
And preferably find another carrier that tells you this before you send your items through the system. It's a bit-fucking-late when your film/urgent-stool-sample/human kidney arrives all irradiated to hell.
They might as well have said "Do not use us to send anything other than plain paper, it'll be nuked"
But in this case, they're getting bigger *and* smaller.
Re:I have just one question.....
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Excuse me while a go write a program that will help Windows render my wallpaper as a text box of ASCII characters...
You don't need to - recent versions of windows already has a program (called kernel32) that randomly renders your wallpaper as a blue screen with indecipherable text upon it. It's not usually enabled with a straight out of the box install of windows though. Best way to get the blue text renderer going is to actually try and do some serious work with your windows computer. Ensuring that you do not save your work for at least an hour will often cause the renderer to appear as well.
While in actuality it didn't cost the country anything, and only cost each corporation a percentage of their annual revenue, small enough to be measured in millionths of a percentage point.
*cough*
Unless somebody managed to take advantage of that hole in XP *before* you patched it, and stole your company's Bright Idea For The New Millenium.
Your windows computer will not boot to the desktop.
Instead it shows a blue screen with "Windows Protection Error: you need to restart your computer." - Fix it.
Check out the procmail-based scanner at impsec.org
If you can set it up, do so - it's saved my ass quite a few times, by mangling active html content and renaming file extensions etc. It can also scan M$ docs for sus looking macros.
The following is something I received today that would slip through otherwise (notice the original content-type)
> SECURITY WARNING!
>
> The mail system has detected that the following
> attachment may contain hazardous program code, is
> a suspicious file type, or has a suspicious file name.
> Do not trust it. Contact your system administrator immediately.
>
> X-Content-Security: [www.ccimackay.com] original Content-Type was audio/x-wav;
> Content-Type: application/octet-stream; name="HUMOR.MP3.27525DEFANGED-scr"
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
> Content-ID:
>
Funnily enough I got one that did this just this morning.... but my procmail filter cleaned it up nicely. Note the original content type below.
> SECURITY WARNING!
>
> The mail system has detected that the following
> attachment may contain hazardous program code, is
> a suspicious file type, or has a suspicious file name.
> Do not trust it. Contact your system administrator immediately.
>
> X-Content-Security: [www.ccimackay.com] original Content-Type was audio/x-wav;
> Content-Type: application/octet-stream; name="HUMOR.MP3.27525DEFANGED-scr"
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
> Content-ID:
>
Another case of security vs convenience I suppose.
You can't make them really destructive , as it is difficult to find the balance between replication and damage... too much damage (too soon) and the virus won't reproduce.
I suppose a counter to wipe any attached drives after X replications would do the trick though.
Do all attached drives and leave your windows directory until last.
In outlook xp, you have to edit the registry if you want to be able to open
That'd be great except that not everyone can afford Office XP.
We're stuck with office 97 because to upgrade to Office(n+1) is equivalent to a *whole years wages* for one of our employees.
I'd prefer to keep that employee, as they are the ones making the money:-)
It's a non-issue if you can install an upstream filter to weed out all the executable attachments.
Easier to fix when something goes wrong - speaking as a qualified auto electrician, No,NO,NO!
You new fuel injected car breaks down? You're shit out of luck. Try and jump start your car one winter morning? Oops - jumper leads the wrong way round? Oh, it was just a little spark! Wrong. That'll be a few thou' to replace all the components you just fried.
I have wiring diagrams for late model cars that take up *5* A0 pages for chrissakes! For just the interconnect wiring!
Computers and software in my opinion are in the same category. If they're smooth on the outside, they are real nightmare on the inside. (Hmm.. some girls I've known are like that as well)
(End rant - I'm just going to have a little lie down now...)
can you imagine playing a fps and getting hit by something that sets off objects in your room crackling and vibrating?
What, like your fillings? I'll pass , thanks.
You'd better make sure you've got a faraday shield around your room, or you'll piss off the neighbours real quick.
But wait! having a faraday shield around your room will likely attract the attention of the spooks as well! Might as well just have a big-ass Tesla Coil in there for the swat team to find when they kick in the door. I'd pay good money to see that:-)
When faced with a "Username" prompt he would have typed his username and pressed Enter. One gives Windows the 3-finger salute when the system is locked, not awaiting login.
Not pedantic, just a little inaccurate.
So I'll make yours "Inaccurate Reply #1":-)
Yes, you can use ctrl-alt-del to kill off things, but also to login to winNT (for some long-forgotten security thing... does anyone remember why?)
For example - Quoth my lonely NT server when you're logged off at the console:
"Press CTRL-ALT-DEL to login to windows NT"
And he was actually aiming to bring up the login widget you normally see with winNT. Which made it even more embarrassing for him when he pressed ctrl-alt-del at a text login, the fool (Hi jake!)
I wasn't really talking about fsck... I'd already gone into that zoned-out rant mode (why let the truth get in the way of a good story anyway?). And besides, have you ever waited for a few compaq disk arrays to spin up? When everyones squealing about how they suddenly can't find a mapped drive, it seems like an eternity whilst the damn drive controller is going "OK, drive 1 of 12.... yes..... I believe there's a drive there..... OK..... I'm spinning up the drive..... now..... "
And no , I'm no MCSE either (I have no formal computer qualifications), but I have watched one of our "expert" subcontractors go to one of our servers and do *exactly* what I posted.
And the look on his face was priceless:-)
He later said that it was just an ingrained habit... but he's still pretty shamed about it.
The reason why companies are slow to take up linux? Because their trial 500GB linux data store is still working though fsck after some idiot MCSE pressed ctrl-alt-del to log in at the console!
It's happened before, and it'll happen again...
'Gee, I've got this blank text screen thingy and it just says "Username:"... hmmmm.... I wonder what it's for? I'll just press ctrl-alt-del to log in and... OH GOD NO!!! '
You normally have a few earlier versions that didn't perform to plan.
You need to aim at a moving target that won't be there for two years, and of course you're own platform is moving as well.
Not forgetting that if you're careless and not do your sums right , you'll crash and burn spectacularly and look like an idiot in front of the rest of the world.
The major difference is of course (drumroll , please)
Slashdot Mirror
Don't know how much you Americans pay to rent your DVDs , but all the major australian rental stores charge the same price for DVDs as videocassetes, with quite a few new releases being 'special edition' types with an extra DVD.
... maybe they just up the VHS price and lower the DVD one to match!!
Waitaminnit... "new release" rental prices *have* been creeping up
Bastards!
People look for ".com", then ".net", then ".org". Anything beyond those major TLDs rarely crosses the mind of most surfers. Hell, most people (who don't deal with it every day) have to be *reminded* about ".gov", thus the success of www.whitehouse.com (link intentionally left un-linked. ;-) )
.mil TLD
Don't forget the secretive
Wait, no, I didn't say that!
I'm probably a threat to (U.S.) national security now.
All throughout the Earth there is evidence of dramatic gravitational changes int he past. For example, below all the ice in the northern reaches of Canada there are vast reserves of coal. Since coal is made through the decay of organic matter, it means there had to be a massive forest up there at some time. Then in the deserts of Africa there are mountains where they find seashells like 1000 feet above sea level.
Perhaps the moon pulling away from the Earth has caused many of the major changes on the Earth..
*cough*Plate Tectonics!*cough*
Coal was generally formed from about 300 to 65 million years ago. That's a lot of time for them continents to wander. That 'massive forest up there' was probably some massive forest down here 300 million years ago.
The products on this list, if contained in a package or envelope that has been irridiated, should not be used. You should discard them and obtain replacements.
And preferably find another carrier that tells you this before you send your items through the system. It's a bit-fucking-late when your film/urgent-stool-sample/human kidney arrives all irradiated to hell.
They might as well have said "Do not use us to send anything other than plain paper, it'll be nuked"
But in this case, they're getting bigger *and* smaller.
Excuse me while a go write a program that will help Windows render my wallpaper as a text box of ASCII characters...
You don't need to - recent versions of windows already has a program (called kernel32) that randomly renders your wallpaper as a blue screen with indecipherable text upon it. It's not usually enabled with a straight out of the box install of windows though. Best way to get the blue text renderer going is to actually try and do some serious work with your windows computer. Ensuring that you do not save your work for at least an hour will often cause the renderer to appear as well.
Hope this helps.
I get these all the time
No, I've never seen anyone selling 40 gigabit hard drives.
.... "NEW! 40Gb DRIVES! For the SAME PRICE as your crappy old 5GB drive!"
Oh, how quickly we forget....
Bytes = bits/8 (not accounting for ecc etc)
Equals 5 GigaBytes (in the proper sense of Giga)
5 gig drives were all the rage back in '95
Good thing the marketing droids didn't pick up on the confusion with B and b
While in actuality it didn't cost the country anything, and only cost each corporation a percentage of their annual revenue, small enough to be measured in millionths of a percentage point.
*cough*
Unless somebody managed to take advantage of that hole in XP *before* you patched it, and stole your company's Bright Idea For The New Millenium.
IF I get nine women pregnant, I'll have a baby in a month!
If you're posting to slashdot, that's a pretty big IF....
have you ever seen primates in a zoo? "Wasting time" is all they do!
Er, perhaps it has something to do with the bars on the cage?
Have you ever seen people in prison? wasting time is all they do!
Or how about :
Your windows computer will not boot to the desktop.
Instead it shows a blue screen with "Windows Protection Error: you need to restart your computer." - Fix it.
I have to plug something here.
:-)
Check out the procmail-based scanner at impsec.org
If you can set it up, do so - it's saved my ass quite a few times, by mangling active html content and renaming file extensions etc. It can also scan M$ docs for sus looking macros.
The following is something I received today that would slip through otherwise (notice the original content-type)
> SECURITY WARNING!
>
> The mail system has detected that the following
> attachment may contain hazardous program code, is
> a suspicious file type, or has a suspicious file name.
> Do not trust it. Contact your system administrator immediately.
>
> X-Content-Security: [www.ccimackay.com] original Content-Type was audio/x-wav;
> Content-Type: application/octet-stream; name="HUMOR.MP3.27525DEFANGED-scr"
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
> Content-ID:
>
End of blatant plug
Funnily enough I got one that did this just this morning.... but my procmail filter cleaned it up nicely. Note the original content type below.
> SECURITY WARNING!
>
> The mail system has detected that the following
> attachment may contain hazardous program code, is
> a suspicious file type, or has a suspicious file name.
> Do not trust it. Contact your system administrator immediately.
>
> X-Content-Security: [www.ccimackay.com] original Content-Type was audio/x-wav;
> Content-Type: application/octet-stream; name="HUMOR.MP3.27525DEFANGED-scr"
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
> Content-ID:
>
Another case of security vs convenience I suppose.
You can't make them really destructive , as it is difficult to find the balance between replication and damage ... too much damage (too soon) and the virus won't reproduce.
:-)
I suppose a counter to wipe any attached drives after X replications would do the trick though.
Do all attached drives and leave your windows directory until last.
But you didn't hear me say that
In outlook xp, you have to edit the registry if you want to be able to open
:-)
That'd be great except that not everyone can afford Office XP.
We're stuck with office 97 because to upgrade to Office(n+1) is equivalent to a *whole years wages* for one of our employees.
I'd prefer to keep that employee, as they are the ones making the money
It's a non-issue if you can install an upstream filter to weed out all the executable attachments.
I like this procmail scanner myself
(Apologies, this is just a rant)
...)
Cars - Simpler to use - yes.
Easier to fix when something goes wrong - speaking as a qualified auto electrician, No,NO,NO!
You new fuel injected car breaks down? You're shit out of luck. Try and jump start your car one winter morning? Oops - jumper leads the wrong way round? Oh, it was just a little spark! Wrong. That'll be a few thou' to replace all the components you just fried.
I have wiring diagrams for late model cars that take up *5* A0 pages for chrissakes! For just the interconnect wiring!
Computers and software in my opinion are in the same category. If they're smooth on the outside, they are real nightmare on the inside. (Hmm.. some girls I've known are like that as well)
(End rant - I'm just going to have a little lie down now
can you imagine playing a fps and getting hit by something that sets off objects in your room crackling and vibrating?
:-)
What, like your fillings? I'll pass , thanks.
You'd better make sure you've got a faraday shield around your room, or you'll piss off the neighbours real quick.
But wait! having a faraday shield around your room will likely attract the attention of the spooks as well! Might as well just have a big-ass Tesla Coil in there for the swat team to find when they kick in the door. I'd pay good money to see that
Load up story - no "repost?" comments
... 3 "repost?" comments.
:-)
Type one out, hit submit, refresh page
Looks like we were all trying to get First Repost
Er,
Didn't we have this news just the other day?
Or did I see it somewhere else?
(Too lazy to go back and look)
Pedantic reply #2:
:-)
When faced with a "Username" prompt he would have typed his username and pressed Enter. One gives Windows the 3-finger salute when the system is locked, not awaiting login.
Not pedantic, just a little inaccurate.
So I'll make yours "Inaccurate Reply #1"
Yes, you can use ctrl-alt-del to kill off things, but also to login to winNT (for some long-forgotten security thing... does anyone remember why?)
For example - Quoth my lonely NT server when you're logged off at the console:
"Press CTRL-ALT-DEL to login to windows NT"
And he was actually aiming to bring up the login widget you normally see with winNT. Which made it even more embarrassing for him when he pressed ctrl-alt-del at a text login, the fool (Hi jake!)
There's always *one* pedantic reply , isn't there?
... I'd already gone into that zoned-out rant mode (why let the truth get in the way of a good story anyway?). And besides, have you ever waited for a few compaq disk arrays to spin up? When everyones squealing about how they suddenly can't find a mapped drive, it seems like an eternity whilst the damn drive controller is going "OK, drive 1 of 12 .... yes..... I believe there's a drive there..... OK..... I'm spinning up the drive ..... now ..... "
:-)
I wasn't really talking about fsck
And no , I'm no MCSE either (I have no formal computer qualifications), but I have watched one of our "expert" subcontractors go to one of our servers and do *exactly* what I posted.
And the look on his face was priceless
He later said that it was just an ingrained habit... but he's still pretty shamed about it.
The reason why companies are slow to take up linux? Because their trial 500GB linux data store is still working though fsck after some idiot MCSE pressed ctrl-alt-del to log in at the console!
...
... hmmmm .... I wonder what it's for? I'll just press ctrl-alt-del to log in and ...
It's happened before, and it'll happen again
'Gee, I've got this blank text screen thingy and it just says "Username:"
OH GOD NO!!! '
So you whip out your two hundred million cd recordables, and start inserting them. Let's say you get 1 frisbee for each 25 700Mb CDs.
Silly Moo!
You back it up to your *other* 144 petabyte drive!
It costs a shitload.
You normally have a few earlier versions that didn't perform to plan.
You need to aim at a moving target that won't be there for two years, and of course you're own platform is moving as well.
Not forgetting that if you're careless and not do your sums right , you'll crash and burn spectacularly and look like an idiot in front of the rest of the world.
The major difference is of course (drumroll , please)
In Space, no-one can hear your FUD.