This is great and all, but why would I do this when I have MandrakeMove?
I found MandrakeMove to be too dumbed down - menu items like "browse the web" for a web browser seemed to be aimed at complete newbies. It also required more input during the boot process, tho maybe that can be skipped if you save configuration.
Knoppix is definitely a better tool for power users, and still does a great job for new users (it passed the "can my parents use it" test!).
If you sent only a URL and (optional) encryption/access key via the old protcol, then retrieved the rest of the message from the URL, this would elimate spoofing and put more of the burden on the sender and less on the receiver.
Don't they do that already though? Think: "XXX HOT PICS HERE: http://blah.com/xxx/pics.html" messages, which have little else in the way of content. The content gives a viable way to determine whether messages are junk - if you have to fetch them you can't distinguish between them. If you then automate it by examining the content as/before it's downloaded, you're back at square one.
Outlook 2003 has the option to both disable HTML and to disable loading of images, specifically aiming at web-bugs. Stop basing all of your opinions on 1997 era Outlook Express.
My opinions? I was simply correcting a FACT that the original poster got wrong. Where exactly did I say it wasn't possible?
The example solution was one I found on the web, and also for the most commonly used versions of Outlook. A small percentage of users have Outlook 2003, which already supports the feature, as you said yourself.
Obviously I just defended MS against outdated and uninformed/.ers, so this will be marked as trolling.
Nah, it's more likely to be your wild accusations (see above) that will get you marked as a troll.
Good Lord, you mean you have to use regedit to turn off HTML? I got upset with some family members because I told them to turn off HTML email for both sending and receiving. Didn't think they'd have to muck around with the registry to do this simple thing.
The horrible hack is only needed to stop it displaying incoming HTML e-mails. Stopping it sending them is easier, see: Sending plain text e-mail in Outlook
Whats so wrong with creating a valuable idea and expecting to profit from it.....?... when there is no indication a licence charge will be required, until after lots of people are reliant on it. If they'd quoted a licence price up-front, it's doubtful so many devices would be using it today as a so-called "standard".
It's a disgusting tactic, but shows MS is getting more and more desperate to fight off any competition. I won't be sorry if this completely backfires on them.
For our 30 Windows environment, upgrading takes about 1 hour with the proper tools, i.e. networked ghost, scripts, etc.
For our 10 Linux environment, it takes much longer because a lot of low level stuff ALWAYS happends (libc clashes, rpm dependency problems, etc)
You're comparing two completely different processes. On the Windows side you're rolling out pre-prepared images using commercial software and hand-written scripts. On the Linux side it sounds like you're doing some manual updates to an existing setup, and using mis-matched packages too.
Installing a fresh Linux distribution and up2date/apt-get patching it would take under an hour. You then have a partition you can image to other machines (even using dd if ya like!). Making the same scripting effort as you did with Windows could easily roll this out over a network too. It depends entirely what you need for your situation.
It wasn't exactly a fair setup comparison anyway! Perhaps you're more skilled on the Windows side, and still adapting to the different methods for Linux upgrades/roll-outs?
I would love it if there was some way to save all the configuration from one machine into a file, and then be able to load that file on another machine (at least for the same distro) and have it configure everything the same way at once. And i'm not talking about doing this manually, I want a program to find all the config files, take the options, put it into an xml doc or something, and then be able to reload it.
For the most part you just need to save and restore the/etc branch to give the same system settings. Doing this between distributions or major version changes probably isn't a good idea though. It'd also rely on the same package set being installed, and nothing having changed that breaks backwards compatability (no problem usually). I'm not aware of anything that attempts to do this automatically, but it's only a couple of commands at a basic level.
If I'm upgrading I tend to just back-up/etc and manually merge the config changes into a new distribution. Only takes me about 15 mins, and means I know everything that was changed.
Transferring a Windows configuration between machines usually takes a couple of days. Reinstalling all the apps, and trying to restore settings exported from my old registry is much more hassle. I still have exported.reg files from my last installation, in case there's anything I still need!:-)
(sadly, 15 years ago when I was just entering the university environment, most of the geek kids DID know unix and were comfortable with it...if only so they could compile their own MUDS)
Heh, I'm one of them - I did eventually move from MUDs to doing something a bit more constructive...
At home and my side business, I'll take the stray dog in...he guards my home and the bit of food and a warm blanket I give him is more than a fair trade.
Exactly how I see it too, with Linux being much more of a part of my home setup. I'll continue to watch for other areas to suggest/introduce Linux, but I'm not confident enough to push just yet.
Nice unbiased post btw - a refreshing change for/.:-)
From http://www.tv-l.co.uk/: "Currently a colour TV Licence costs you 116.00 GBP and a black and white TV Licence 38.50 GBP. Anyone aged 75 or over is entitled to a free TV Licence for their principal residence. If you are registered blind, you need to pay only 50% of the full licence fee."
You don't just pay for the BBC though - you must pay if you own a TV, even if you only watch cable channels. Even owning a TV and using it for video games, you'd probably be hard pushed to prove you don't use it for regular viewing!
When a Voodoo-compliant video signal was detected, it hijacked the output to the monitor and took over.
To be more accurate, when the Voodoo card was told to hijack the output by the drivers (which talked to it using regular I/O), it did. There wasn't anything special about the video signal itself.
You've heard what they are, so how about how they started out?
The first dongle was created to protect the Wordcraft word processor in 1978, originally written for the Commodore Pet.
The word "dongle" was made up by the (then) Managing Director, Mike Lake. It was a word along the lines of 'oojimaflip', 'thingy', etc. so it doesn't really mean anything as such.
It's useful if you are typing, with your hand away from the mouse, and want to do a right click on th highlighted item.
Shift-F10 does the same thing as the "Apps" key, unless explicitly overridden by an application. It's handy on systems with an old keyboard and no mouse:-)
I use a program which allows me to change the referer header to appear to be from the same site I'm browsing. Not only does that protect my privacy but it works with the vast majority of sites that clamp down on content linking / bandwidth stealing. Sometimes simply removing the referer will kick you back out to an index page, which is a pain.
While you're making the plug-in changes, please also complete the PNG enhancements you promised us. We'd like to be able to use alpha in our images without it looking ugly to most Windows users.
I'm up to 6 so far, and can't imagine that will be the end of it!
Rather than change the service recovery options, I now use: Start Menu -> Run and enter "shutdown -a" (without the quotes). If the 60 second shutdown is running that cancels it, giving you time to get online for the patch. It does rely on the machine having been hit since you go online, but with the cases so far that has been taking under 30 seconds!
Now if only the people who were having this problem could get online long enough to read that (:
Heh, that's true:-D
The hope is that anyone reading/. will already know about the exploit, and be patched up against it. I imagine lots of us are going to hear from someone who has been hit by the worm, and it's nice to be prepared with answers/instructions when they call.
This worm seems particularly nasty because it prevents you getting online long enough to download the patch. If you go online you're likely to get hit again, and the reboots continue.
Here's a work-around I've been talking some of my relatived through tonight. It's not something I'd normally want to expose them to, but it certainly saves me a visit to do it myself!
If you're on a LAN, disconnect the machine from the network before you boot up, to prevent other infected machines from rebooting you again.
Right-click on My Computer, select Manage, then under the Services and Applications branch pick Services.
Right-click on Remote Procedure Call (RPC) in the list on the right, and select Properties. On the Recovery tab, change the 3 combo boxes from "Restart the computer" to "Take no action". Click OK to close the dialog.
You're still vulnerable but your machine won't reboot, giving you time to go online and get the patch. Reconnect your network cable, or establish your normal dial-up connection.
Go to http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=823980 to grab the patch for your machine. As soon as you've got it, disconnect your network connection/cable, and run the patch. BUT don't reboot when prompted!
Open RegEdit and browse to HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run and delete the "windows auto update" value, which starts the worm when Windows starts. Now restart Windows and you should be free of the worm.
To finish the cleaning process, delete C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\MSBLAST.EXE
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Not having TLD at all... Like http://slashdot
Sounds a bit like AOL keywords...
Is anyone else seeing "Ibm Deskstar Hard Drives" Google ads on the right? :-D
This is great and all, but why would I do this when I have MandrakeMove?
I found MandrakeMove to be too dumbed down - menu items like "browse the web" for a web browser seemed to be aimed at complete newbies. It also required more input during the boot process, tho maybe that can be skipped if you save configuration.
Knoppix is definitely a better tool for power users, and still does a great job for new users (it passed the "can my parents use it" test!).
If you sent only a URL and (optional) encryption/access key via the old protcol, then retrieved the rest of the message from the URL, this would elimate spoofing and put more of the burden on the sender and less on the receiver.
Don't they do that already though? Think: "XXX HOT PICS HERE: http://blah.com/xxx/pics.html" messages, which have little else in the way of content. The content gives a viable way to determine whether messages are junk - if you have to fetch them you can't distinguish between them. If you then automate it by examining the content as/before it's downloaded, you're back at square one.
Or am I missing something?
The further down the same article it says "However, you may be able to obtain assistance from a third-party password breaker."
:)
What part of unbreakable don't they understand?
Outlook 2003 has the option to both disable HTML and to disable loading of images, specifically aiming at web-bugs. Stop basing all of your opinions on 1997 era Outlook Express.
/.ers, so this will be marked as trolling.
My opinions? I was simply correcting a FACT that the original poster got wrong. Where exactly did I say it wasn't possible?
The example solution was one I found on the web, and also for the most commonly used versions of Outlook. A small percentage of users have Outlook 2003, which already supports the feature, as you said yourself.
Obviously I just defended MS against outdated and uninformed
Nah, it's more likely to be your wild accusations (see above) that will get you marked as a troll.
Good Lord, you mean you have to use regedit to turn off HTML? I got upset with some family members because I told them to turn off HTML email for both sending and receiving. Didn't think they'd have to muck around with the registry to do this simple thing.
The horrible hack is only needed to stop it displaying incoming HTML e-mails. Stopping it sending them is easier, see: Sending plain text e-mail in Outlook
You cant turn off HTML in M$ LookOut
;-)
Oh yes you can - something I rely on to avoid spammers using the same trick!
this dude dosent sound very clued up
My thought exactly
Whats so wrong with creating a valuable idea and expecting to profit from it.....? ... when there is no indication a licence charge will be required, until after lots of people are reliant on it. If they'd quoted a licence price up-front, it's doubtful so many devices would be using it today as a so-called "standard".
It's a disgusting tactic, but shows MS is getting more and more desperate to fight off any competition. I won't be sorry if this completely backfires on them.
For our 30 Windows environment, upgrading takes about 1 hour with the proper tools, i.e. networked ghost, scripts, etc.
For our 10 Linux environment, it takes much longer because a lot of low level stuff ALWAYS happends (libc clashes, rpm dependency problems, etc)
You're comparing two completely different processes. On the Windows side you're rolling out pre-prepared images using commercial software and hand-written scripts. On the Linux side it sounds like you're doing some manual updates to an existing setup, and using mis-matched packages too.
Installing a fresh Linux distribution and up2date/apt-get patching it would take under an hour. You then have a partition you can image to other machines (even using dd if ya like!). Making the same scripting effort as you did with Windows could easily roll this out over a network too. It depends entirely what you need for your situation.
It wasn't exactly a fair setup comparison anyway! Perhaps you're more skilled on the Windows side, and still adapting to the different methods for Linux upgrades/roll-outs?
I would love it if there was some way to save all the configuration from one machine into a file, and then be able to load that file on another machine (at least for the same distro) and have it configure everything the same way at once. And i'm not talking about doing this manually, I want a program to find all the config files, take the options, put it into an xml doc or something, and then be able to reload it.
/etc branch to give the same system settings. Doing this between distributions or major version changes probably isn't a good idea though. It'd also rely on the same package set being installed, and nothing having changed that breaks backwards compatability (no problem usually). I'm not aware of anything that attempts to do this automatically, but it's only a couple of commands at a basic level.
/etc and manually merge the config changes into a new distribution. Only takes me about 15 mins, and means I know everything that was changed.
.reg files from my last installation, in case there's anything I still need! :-)
For the most part you just need to save and restore the
If I'm upgrading I tend to just back-up
Transferring a Windows configuration between machines usually takes a couple of days. Reinstalling all the apps, and trying to restore settings exported from my old registry is much more hassle. I still have exported
(sadly, 15 years ago when I was just entering the university environment, most of the geek kids DID know unix and were comfortable with it...if only so they could compile their own MUDS)
/. :-)
Heh, I'm one of them - I did eventually move from MUDs to doing something a bit more constructive...
At home and my side business, I'll take the stray dog in...he guards my home and the bit of food and a warm blanket I give him is more than a fair trade.
Exactly how I see it too, with Linux being much more of a part of my home setup. I'll continue to watch for other areas to suggest/introduce Linux, but I'm not confident enough to push just yet.
Nice unbiased post btw - a refreshing change for
How much do you pay per year for the BBC?
From http://www.tv-l.co.uk/:
"Currently a colour TV Licence costs you 116.00 GBP and a black and white TV Licence 38.50 GBP. Anyone aged 75 or over is entitled to a free TV Licence for their principal residence. If you are registered blind, you need to pay only 50% of the full licence fee."
You don't just pay for the BBC though - you must pay if you own a TV, even if you only watch cable channels. Even owning a TV and using it for video games, you'd probably be hard pushed to prove you don't use it for regular viewing!
Guess which one will spawn the new millionairs and monarchs?
:-)
There be a clue in the title, there be!
When a Voodoo-compliant video signal was detected, it hijacked the output to the monitor and took over.
To be more accurate, when the Voodoo card was told to hijack the output by the drivers (which talked to it using regular I/O), it did. There wasn't anything special about the video signal itself.
You've heard what they are, so how about how they started out?
The first dongle was created to protect the Wordcraft word processor in 1978, originally written for the Commodore Pet.
The word "dongle" was made up by the (then) Managing Director, Mike Lake. It was a word along the lines of 'oojimaflip', 'thingy', etc. so it doesn't really mean anything as such.
It's useful if you are typing, with your hand away from the mouse, and want to do a right click on th highlighted item.
:-)
Shift-F10 does the same thing as the "Apps" key, unless explicitly overridden by an application. It's handy on systems with an old keyboard and no mouse
On Windows XP, when you press the Windows key + Scrool key it opens the System Control Panel.
Actually, Win+Pause opens the System Properties dialog (same as right-clicking on My Computer and selecting Properties).
Win+Scroll doesn't do anything special - it's the same as pressing it without Win.
At least this is a bit of vindication from the guy who used to wander the halls with the linux shirt. :)
Mind if I borrow it sometime? Don't worry, I'll wash it before I return it.
I use a program which allows me to change the referer header to appear to be from the same site I'm browsing. Not only does that protect my privacy but it works with the vast majority of sites that clamp down on content linking / bandwidth stealing. Sometimes simply removing the referer will kick you back out to an index page, which is a pain.
While you're making the plug-in changes, please also complete the PNG enhancements you promised us. We'd like to be able to use alpha in our images without it looking ugly to most Windows users.
Cheers!
I'm up to 6 so far, and can't imagine that will be the end of it!
Rather than change the service recovery options, I now use: Start Menu -> Run and enter "shutdown -a" (without the quotes). If the 60 second shutdown is running that cancels it, giving you time to get online for the patch. It does rely on the machine having been hit since you go online, but with the cases so far that has been taking under 30 seconds!
Now if only the people who were having this problem could get online long enough to read that (:
:-D
/. will already know about the exploit, and be patched up against it. I imagine lots of us are going to hear from someone who has been hit by the worm, and it's nice to be prepared with answers/instructions when they call.
Heh, that's true
The hope is that anyone reading
Here's a work-around I've been talking some of my relatived through tonight. It's not something I'd normally want to expose them to, but it certainly saves me a visit to do it myself!