They usualy have management jobs. Hey guess what, our Vice President just opened up an attachment in email and now our whole network is down while IT tries to remove the malware infections.
I still see infected malware emails, my AV program detects them.
Yet there exists a problem caused by a few factors:
#1 Managers are usually given Administrative access to their machines. This increases the risk for infection.
#2 AntiVirus software uses a subscription model. If Management is too cheap to renew licenses, they can end up without protection from new malware. Most managers are unaware that AV software actually scans for signatures and that the signatures of new malware are different from the old ones.
#3 Those without Administrator access, cannot properly update their AV software. Imagine a McAfee VirusScan software not being updated since 2003. You attempt to update it, but the system fails to install the new software because you do not have access to install. The path to the AV data files is marked as read only. Yet Malware can easily infect your machine. I've seen college labs full of workstations with older protection that is unable to be updated. I can only guess that corporations are full of machines like that as well.
#4 Some viruses like to set the clock to the year 2000, hoping to trigger Y2K issues. Most malware kills itself after a certain date in the future. If the year is always 2000, the malware will not kill itself.
#5 People still download software willy-nilly from the Internet from file sharing networks, web sites, and IRC channels without scanning them first and then they run them. People are still getting malware infections this way, more so than the email attachments. All malware did was evolve from the email attachments to infecting software for download on the Internet. For example, one malware for OSX was a Word 2004 installer program, which actually was not a Word 2004 installer but a program script designed to delete all files on the OSX hard drive. It seems the age of the cuckoo egg malware infections have replaced the age of the email attachment malware infections. A cuckoo egg being a file you think is one thing, but it actually turns out to be something else.
get a few corrupted libraries and apt-get is useless. You then have to use the deb tool to remove the corrupt libraries and run apt-get again and hope it works. If not, you may have to reformat and try again.
I've had Debian distros do a meltdown on me doing that, and I followed every helpful guide on the Internet trying to fix it. The Autopackage technology seems like it has a fix for these dependancy problems and corrupt libraries.
Much as I hate to say it, Autopackage seems to add in Microsoft Windows like install and removal abilities to Linux. This is a good thing, because it makes Linux more of a desktop OS that the average person can use without learning how to be a Linux Admin. That makes Linux more popular and maybe more people will switch to it.
That one was meant as a joke. I see it went over your head.
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After all, why wave around a pirate flag when you do not support piracy?
Arrrhhhh, pirates of ye world, unite, Apple be hoisting the pirate colors. Party at One Infinte Loop, Captain Steve is buying the rum! Thar be booty fer all!
Jacques Chirac surrenders to Bill Gates. Grants Microsoft access to build France's technology. Whole country suffers from massive BSOD, and Script Kiddies now control the government of France.:)
I think clearly the only virus myth about OSX, is the myth that OSX has no viruses that can infect it. Apparently there are at least several examples of OSX viruses, and that number seems to grow. It may even double every year.
I've always felt that using a computer without virus protection was like having unprotected sex without a condom with multiple partners. Back in the old days, when they used to say that the Commodore Amiga had no viruses, and that only MS-DOS suffered from viruses, Amigas got their own viruses that infected their systems. Usually it was one of those Amiga demo programs that people downloaded from BBSes to show off the Amiga's graphics and sound. Someone would infect it with a virus and pass it around. Amiga users felt that the Amiga virus was a myth, and many got hit. Now I see the same thing happen for OSX, only OSX is on the Internet and is subject to more danagers than the BBS world once offered.
So yes, the facts speak for Symantec, that OSX viruses exist, and possibly they could grow in number.
This bone-headed stunt of offering a contest to virus infect two Macs only shows how gullable people are. It was a phoney contest.
I am getting tired of downloading updates and installing them. Hopefully nothing will go wrong this time. Last time 1.01 died and I had to go back to 1.0 to avoid BSODs and profiles and extensions that no longer worked.
It would be nice if the update part is fixed to make upgrading a lot smoother.
corporations are more likely to use antivirus software and firewalls. At least the ones with things worth stealing will, beause they would have the money to pay consultants to secure their network for them.
Broadband systems bundle antivirus and firewall software to subscribers. The number of hardware routers are increasing, so chances are you will get into a braodband subnet only to find there is a hardware router between you and the victim, and they run antivirus and a software firewall behind their NATed PC.
A way around all this is to use the advertising ad with a browser exploit to install malware that hijacks a well known application and infect it, to bypass the software firewall and hope it does not run a checksum on software that is authorized to connect through it.
K5 is full of clowns like you, I was here before K5, and I found K5 to be full of groupthinkers and trolls. I refuse to go back there.
I agree, I've been building PC systems since 1985. I built my own systems, and I used to have a business that built them for others.
Most people just buy a name brand system, and then wonder why they are paying so much for that $200 system (sans rebates) because they do not know how to operate it properly and maintain it. So they keep sending it back to the place they bought it from and paying big money to fix it.
I tend to teach customers how to use virus scanners, firewalls, and alternative browsers to keep their systems clean. I teach them how to run maintenance programs like Scandisk/Chkdsk, and Defrag. I tell them the danagers of installing too many programs on their Windows OS.
Usually the ones who don't listen to me come back for me to fix their system. As the damage was caused by their carelessness or actions, the warranty does not cover it.
I had a problem with customers not paying me for systems (I couldn't offer the $200 and $300 rebates), and repairs (I billed for my time), so they promised to pay and then stiffed me. Next business I form will have a credit card machine, and if they cannot pay, I hold the system until they can. My partner had a heart attack and quit, and I got sick myself and went on disability.
Some customers went to Best Buy, Geeksquad, etc and then came to us to help them fix the problems the others could not fix.
I think malware infections alone can help a computer business finance itself by offering malware removal services. Granted some people are so ignorant that they will keep coming back to get the same malware removed over and over again. Home Network installs can also be more profitable, as people buy a router for their DSL or Cable broadband connection and cannot figure out how to set it up.
if you were going to control someone's box, and you wanted to make sure that they have valuable information to steal. Would you target the PC user who bought the cheap PC, or the Mac User who paid more for his/her Mac? Chances are the Mac User has a much higher income, being in a creative content or some other weathier profession. The Mac User would typically own more credit cards with larger credit limits, and have more money in their bank accounts. Sure, anyone could write a Windows virus, even 13 year-old kids do it. The Switchback virus showed that OSX is vulnerable, and also that OSX virus writers have little to no competition.
Also chances are the PC User already has a virus scanner, and knows enough about his/her PC to protect it. The Mac User, on the other hand, thinks he/she is safe from viruses and does not even have a virus scanner installed. Usually the typical OSX user uses default OSX settings, thinking that they are good enough. The OSX user is also more likely to click on attachments than the Windows user in email, thinking that no file infection exploits exist for OSX. The OSX user is also more likely to use the default email and web programs that come with OSX, and the Windows user is switching to Opera, Firefox, Thunderbird, Eudora, after the ton of exploits that exist for IE and Outlook and Outlook Express.
Best tactic of a cracker/hacker is to hit someone who does not expect to be hit.
Infect the typical PC, and you are more likely to discover someone's porn collection. Infect the typical OSX and you are more likely to find Intellectual Property and other goodies. Therefore, should you go for the swampland (PC) or the gold mine (MAC)?
that Solitare and Minesweeper are intergrated with the OS, and removing them can cripple the OS. This is the type of thing that happens at Microsoft, apparently. Microsoft says it would not be possible to make a version of Windows without the Solitare and Minesweeper applications.
Ah well, if Solitare and Minesweeper are removed, what will stop government employees from installing other games?
You boss, just wants to challenge you to a Doom 3 Deathmatch anyway.;)
Well the Catholic church is upset over "The Danvinci Code" using Church copyrights to create a story that shows the Catholic church in a negative view. "The Danvinci Code" is fiction, and not based on real events, yet people are believing that it is true. This is causing quite a bit of damage in the Christian community.
TINSTAAFL = There is no such thing as a free lunch. In this case, there is no such thing as a free iPod, as you have to not only sell your information to spammers, but also apply for offers for more services on the web as well.
I have KANOTIX, I run a web server using KNOPPIX, but when I get free time I might change it over to KANOTIX. It seems KANOTIX uses a web based install script that always makes sure you got the latest version. KANO apparently wrote the scripts for KNOPPIX.
When I installed KNOPPIX to my hard drive, I used the Debian install method.
Just one thing, those Novell programs like Red Carpet, refuse to run on KNOPPIX/KANOTIX because it does not see it as Debian. Therefore the whole Novell line of installable software I cannot install that is based on using Red Carpet.:(
but a shame it won't run everything, or if it does, it requires some complex rigging of files and registry settings to make the programs run under BartPE. Even then there still is problems, like Malware removers removing the infected files, but not the registry keys that are changed by the malware.
When someone's NTFS partiation got hosed, I used to have to bring a spare hard drive with me with XP on it to run Chkdsk to fix their hard drive after booting from the spare. Now I just boot a BartPE CD-ROM and run Chkdsk from that.
NTFS is weird, got a hard drive error on the disk, and it won't let Windows load any further to run chkdsk to fix the problem. Instead it just complains that it cannot load some file or something. Boot off a floppy disk, and it cannot see the NTFS partition.
BartPE can run Embedded Mozilla, TCP/IP networking, Nero, McAfee AntiVirus, Adaware, Ghost 8.0, and other useful utilities to work on hard drives that won't boot, or need malware removed and booting the OS won't allow it to remove Malware that has become part of the system or in use and cannot be removed.
Combine Firefox, Thunderbird, and Sunbird into Sloth Toad. It will run slower, be more bloated, and more prone to crashes. Yet that is ok because the error reporting method that Firefox/Thunderbird/Sunbird/Mozilla uses is still broken! I have never been able to send them an error report via the error reporting tool, it just sits in the cach and tries to connect and fails, etc over and over again. I have to report the bugs I find via Bugzilla, and then they get classified as a "Wontfix".:(
without the need to reboot. Run them side by side and compare the features.
It is, after all, emulation, so don't expect to break speed records with it. Also that IP connection limitation in XP won't be broken by running KNOPPIX in an emulator.
Now KNOPPIX can join the ranks of MacOS 8.1 (BasiliskII), AmigaOS 3.1 (Amiga Forever), as yet another OS emulated under Windows.
The advantage I see for this is that web developers will finally be able to check how their web pages look under different browsers and operating systems without having to reboot Windows each time they want to look how it looks under Linux.
The next step is to make KNOPPIX run AntiVirus, AntiSpyware, AntiAdware, and AntiTrojan removal programs and make any FAT32, FAT16, or NTFS partition as read/write so the Malware can be removed. Yet what is the point when you can run the KNOPPIX HD Install script and get rid of Windows and all of its flaws that allow Malware to be installed in the first place.
P.S. I am moving to KANOTIX now, it seems to be a bit better than KNOPPIX.
Mostly they were in Outlook PST formats. I backed them up to CDR disks. Then after reformatting my system, Outlook said they were not valid PST files. I think I did this from 1997 to 2005. I am slowing trying to move to Thunderbird so I can avoid this problem. Only Thunderbird does not sync like Outlook does to various devices and services. Also the Thunderbird Calendar is weak, and while Sunbird claims to interface with Thunderbird, I cannot see how it is supposed to do that as it does not interface for me.
Prior to 1997, I used old versions of Eudora and Netscape, which I stored on Zip Disks, which now suffered from Bit-Rot and lost the data and they are unrecoverable.
I do not think I did anything wrong, but if I did, they would have to get the mail off of old servers if it is still there, as my copies have all gone up in smoke.
All I saved to text files, where some software registrations that I paid for. There are some software registrations that I paid for and did not back up that way.:(
Anyway Microsoft Outlook PST files are not the best way to save or archive email into. I even tried recovery programs, and all they were able to recover was the trash directory which was empty, and nothing else. Fbog!
that the Mozilla Foundation will be doing bugfixes only to the 1.7.X version. That any major releases will not be done by the MF, but by any OSS group that wants to pick it up.
MF must have seen that having Firefox and Mozilla, that Firefox was the project to stick with for a browser. That Mozilla is bloated because it has the chat and email parts to it.
Whomever picks up the Mozilla will most likely give it a different name. Imagine if IBM or Novell picked up the Mozilla 1.7.X source and named it something else like Watsonzilla 1.8 (IBM named after a former executive) or Netzilla 1.8 (Novell, named after Netware).
This is a big step for anyone who wishes to have a top notch OSS browser as part of their company profile.
Hah, hard to buy a laptop that isn't sold to consumers these days. Not like I can just build one of my own using off the shelf parts, like I can a desktop.
Computer makers need to be honest about if their hardware supports Linux or not, or even if it is only partial support and some devices are not supported. If I knew that, I wouldn't buy this laptop and look for another.
Still no support for my wireless or modem devices in Linux. I even tried Kanoitx which is supposed to have good wireless support.
The person I talked to on the Helpdesk said that installing Linux would void my warranty. Of course they are based in India and outsourced, so they may not have known what they were talking about. It is hard to find a good knowledgeable help desk person after all the outsourcing to other countries have been done.
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They usualy have management jobs. Hey guess what, our Vice President just opened up an attachment in email and now our whole network is down while IT tries to remove the malware infections.
I still see infected malware emails, my AV program detects them.
Yet there exists a problem caused by a few factors:
#1 Managers are usually given Administrative access to their machines. This increases the risk for infection.
#2 AntiVirus software uses a subscription model. If Management is too cheap to renew licenses, they can end up without protection from new malware. Most managers are unaware that AV software actually scans for signatures and that the signatures of new malware are different from the old ones.
#3 Those without Administrator access, cannot properly update their AV software. Imagine a McAfee VirusScan software not being updated since 2003. You attempt to update it, but the system fails to install the new software because you do not have access to install. The path to the AV data files is marked as read only. Yet Malware can easily infect your machine. I've seen college labs full of workstations with older protection that is unable to be updated. I can only guess that corporations are full of machines like that as well.
#4 Some viruses like to set the clock to the year 2000, hoping to trigger Y2K issues. Most malware kills itself after a certain date in the future. If the year is always 2000, the malware will not kill itself.
#5 People still download software willy-nilly from the Internet from file sharing networks, web sites, and IRC channels without scanning them first and then they run them. People are still getting malware infections this way, more so than the email attachments. All malware did was evolve from the email attachments to infecting software for download on the Internet. For example, one malware for OSX was a Word 2004 installer program, which actually was not a Word 2004 installer but a program script designed to delete all files on the OSX hard drive. It seems the age of the cuckoo egg malware infections have replaced the age of the email attachment malware infections. A cuckoo egg being a file you think is one thing, but it actually turns out to be something else.
get a few corrupted libraries and apt-get is useless. You then have to use the deb tool to remove the corrupt libraries and run apt-get again and hope it works. If not, you may have to reformat and try again.
I've had Debian distros do a meltdown on me doing that, and I followed every helpful guide on the Internet trying to fix it. The Autopackage technology seems like it has a fix for these dependancy problems and corrupt libraries.
Much as I hate to say it, Autopackage seems to add in Microsoft Windows like install and removal abilities to Linux. This is a good thing, because it makes Linux more of a desktop OS that the average person can use without learning how to be a Linux Admin. That makes Linux more popular and maybe more people will switch to it.
That one was meant as a joke. I see it went over your head.
After all, why wave around a pirate flag when you do not support piracy?
Arrrhhhh, pirates of ye world, unite, Apple be hoisting the pirate colors. Party at One Infinte Loop, Captain Steve is buying the rum! Thar be booty fer all!
Jacques Chirac surrenders to Bill Gates. Grants Microsoft access to build France's technology. Whole country suffers from massive BSOD, and Script Kiddies now control the government of France. :)
named Switchback which infected OSX Macs, but nobody noticed it.
There are others such as Renepo.B
MacOS MW2004 Trojan, MP3 Concept, Opener, and a sound driver virus.
I think clearly the only virus myth about OSX, is the myth that OSX has no viruses that can infect it. Apparently there are at least several examples of OSX viruses, and that number seems to grow. It may even double every year.
I've always felt that using a computer without virus protection was like having unprotected sex without a condom with multiple partners. Back in the old days, when they used to say that the Commodore Amiga had no viruses, and that only MS-DOS suffered from viruses, Amigas got their own viruses that infected their systems. Usually it was one of those Amiga demo programs that people downloaded from BBSes to show off the Amiga's graphics and sound. Someone would infect it with a virus and pass it around. Amiga users felt that the Amiga virus was a myth, and many got hit. Now I see the same thing happen for OSX, only OSX is on the Internet and is subject to more danagers than the BBS world once offered.
So yes, the facts speak for Symantec, that OSX viruses exist, and possibly they could grow in number.
This bone-headed stunt of offering a contest to virus infect two Macs only shows how gullable people are. It was a phoney contest.
I am getting tired of downloading updates and installing them. Hopefully nothing will go wrong this time. Last time 1.01 died and I had to go back to 1.0 to avoid BSODs and profiles and extensions that no longer worked.
It would be nice if the update part is fixed to make upgrading a lot smoother.
It was Steve Ballmer in the study with the lead pipe.
Oh, not that kind of sleuthing?
corporations are more likely to use antivirus software and firewalls. At least the ones with things worth stealing will, beause they would have the money to pay consultants to secure their network for them.
Broadband systems bundle antivirus and firewall software to subscribers. The number of hardware routers are increasing, so chances are you will get into a braodband subnet only to find there is a hardware router between you and the victim, and they run antivirus and a software firewall behind their NATed PC.
A way around all this is to use the advertising ad with a browser exploit to install malware that hijacks a well known application and infect it, to bypass the software firewall and hope it does not run a checksum on software that is authorized to connect through it.
K5 is full of clowns like you, I was here before K5, and I found K5 to be full of groupthinkers and trolls. I refuse to go back there.
I agree, I've been building PC systems since 1985. I built my own systems, and I used to have a business that built them for others.
Most people just buy a name brand system, and then wonder why they are paying so much for that $200 system (sans rebates) because they do not know how to operate it properly and maintain it. So they keep sending it back to the place they bought it from and paying big money to fix it.
I tend to teach customers how to use virus scanners, firewalls, and alternative browsers to keep their systems clean. I teach them how to run maintenance programs like Scandisk/Chkdsk, and Defrag. I tell them the danagers of installing too many programs on their Windows OS.
Usually the ones who don't listen to me come back for me to fix their system. As the damage was caused by their carelessness or actions, the warranty does not cover it.
I had a problem with customers not paying me for systems (I couldn't offer the $200 and $300 rebates), and repairs (I billed for my time), so they promised to pay and then stiffed me. Next business I form will have a credit card machine, and if they cannot pay, I hold the system until they can. My partner had a heart attack and quit, and I got sick myself and went on disability.
Some customers went to Best Buy, Geeksquad, etc and then came to us to help them fix the problems the others could not fix.
I think malware infections alone can help a computer business finance itself by offering malware removal services. Granted some people are so ignorant that they will keep coming back to get the same malware removed over and over again. Home Network installs can also be more profitable, as people buy a router for their DSL or Cable broadband connection and cannot figure out how to set it up.
if you were going to control someone's box, and you wanted to make sure that they have valuable information to steal. Would you target the PC user who bought the cheap PC, or the Mac User who paid more for his/her Mac? Chances are the Mac User has a much higher income, being in a creative content or some other weathier profession. The Mac User would typically own more credit cards with larger credit limits, and have more money in their bank accounts. Sure, anyone could write a Windows virus, even 13 year-old kids do it. The Switchback virus showed that OSX is vulnerable, and also that OSX virus writers have little to no competition.
Also chances are the PC User already has a virus scanner, and knows enough about his/her PC to protect it. The Mac User, on the other hand, thinks he/she is safe from viruses and does not even have a virus scanner installed. Usually the typical OSX user uses default OSX settings, thinking that they are good enough. The OSX user is also more likely to click on attachments than the Windows user in email, thinking that no file infection exploits exist for OSX. The OSX user is also more likely to use the default email and web programs that come with OSX, and the Windows user is switching to Opera, Firefox, Thunderbird, Eudora, after the ton of exploits that exist for IE and Outlook and Outlook Express.
Best tactic of a cracker/hacker is to hit someone who does not expect to be hit.
Infect the typical PC, and you are more likely to discover someone's porn collection. Infect the typical OSX and you are more likely to find Intellectual Property and other goodies. Therefore, should you go for the swampland (PC) or the gold mine (MAC)?
that Solitare and Minesweeper are intergrated with the OS, and removing them can cripple the OS. This is the type of thing that happens at Microsoft, apparently. Microsoft says it would not be possible to make a version of Windows without the Solitare and Minesweeper applications.
;)
Ah well, if Solitare and Minesweeper are removed, what will stop government employees from installing other games?
You boss, just wants to challenge you to a Doom 3 Deathmatch anyway.
Those words are copyrighted, so I used an alternative spelling of it that was not copyrighted.
Well the Catholic church is upset over "The Danvinci Code" using Church copyrights to create a story that shows the Catholic church in a negative view. "The Danvinci Code" is fiction, and not based on real events, yet people are believing that it is true. This is causing quite a bit of damage in the Christian community.
TINSTAAFL = There is no such thing as a free lunch. In this case, there is no such thing as a free iPod, as you have to not only sell your information to spammers, but also apply for offers for more services on the web as well.
I I present a new acronym:
TINSTAAFI = There is no such thing as a free iPod
I have KANOTIX, I run a web server using KNOPPIX, but when I get free time I might change it over to KANOTIX. It seems KANOTIX uses a web based install script that always makes sure you got the latest version. KANO apparently wrote the scripts for KNOPPIX.
:(
When I installed KNOPPIX to my hard drive, I used the Debian install method.
Just one thing, those Novell programs like Red Carpet, refuse to run on KNOPPIX/KANOTIX because it does not see it as Debian. Therefore the whole Novell line of installable software I cannot install that is based on using Red Carpet.
I tried to download it, but the Bit Torrent tracker is down.
How can I update the virus signatures? Or do I have to download a new version with each virus database update?
but a shame it won't run everything, or if it does, it requires some complex rigging of files and registry settings to make the programs run under BartPE. Even then there still is problems, like Malware removers removing the infected files, but not the registry keys that are changed by the malware.
When someone's NTFS partiation got hosed, I used to have to bring a spare hard drive with me with XP on it to run Chkdsk to fix their hard drive after booting from the spare. Now I just boot a BartPE CD-ROM and run Chkdsk from that.
NTFS is weird, got a hard drive error on the disk, and it won't let Windows load any further to run chkdsk to fix the problem. Instead it just complains that it cannot load some file or something. Boot off a floppy disk, and it cannot see the NTFS partition.
BartPE can run Embedded Mozilla, TCP/IP networking, Nero, McAfee AntiVirus, Adaware, Ghost 8.0, and other useful utilities to work on hard drives that won't boot, or need malware removed and booting the OS won't allow it to remove Malware that has become part of the system or in use and cannot be removed.
Combine Firefox, Thunderbird, and Sunbird into Sloth Toad. It will run slower, be more bloated, and more prone to crashes. Yet that is ok because the error reporting method that Firefox/Thunderbird/Sunbird/Mozilla uses is still broken! I have never been able to send them an error report via the error reporting tool, it just sits in the cach and tries to connect and fails, etc over and over again. I have to report the bugs I find via Bugzilla, and then they get classified as a "Wontfix". :(
without the need to reboot. Run them side by side and compare the features.
It is, after all, emulation, so don't expect to break speed records with it. Also that IP connection limitation in XP won't be broken by running KNOPPIX in an emulator.
Now KNOPPIX can join the ranks of MacOS 8.1 (BasiliskII), AmigaOS 3.1 (Amiga Forever), as yet another OS emulated under Windows.
The advantage I see for this is that web developers will finally be able to check how their web pages look under different browsers and operating systems without having to reboot Windows each time they want to look how it looks under Linux.
The next step is to make KNOPPIX run AntiVirus, AntiSpyware, AntiAdware, and AntiTrojan removal programs and make any FAT32, FAT16, or NTFS partition as read/write so the Malware can be removed. Yet what is the point when you can run the KNOPPIX HD Install script and get rid of Windows and all of its flaws that allow Malware to be installed in the first place.
P.S. I am moving to KANOTIX now, it seems to be a bit better than KNOPPIX.
Mostly they were in Outlook PST formats. I backed them up to CDR disks. Then after reformatting my system, Outlook said they were not valid PST files. I think I did this from 1997 to 2005. I am slowing trying to move to Thunderbird so I can avoid this problem. Only Thunderbird does not sync like Outlook does to various devices and services. Also the Thunderbird Calendar is weak, and while Sunbird claims to interface with Thunderbird, I cannot see how it is supposed to do that as it does not interface for me.
:(
Prior to 1997, I used old versions of Eudora and Netscape, which I stored on Zip Disks, which now suffered from Bit-Rot and lost the data and they are unrecoverable.
I do not think I did anything wrong, but if I did, they would have to get the mail off of old servers if it is still there, as my copies have all gone up in smoke.
All I saved to text files, where some software registrations that I paid for. There are some software registrations that I paid for and did not back up that way.
Anyway Microsoft Outlook PST files are not the best way to save or archive email into. I even tried recovery programs, and all they were able to recover was the trash directory which was empty, and nothing else. Fbog!
No you mean Netscape, to me that is what AOLZilla really is. :)
that the Mozilla Foundation will be doing bugfixes only to the 1.7.X version. That any major releases will not be done by the MF, but by any OSS group that wants to pick it up.
MF must have seen that having Firefox and Mozilla, that Firefox was the project to stick with for a browser. That Mozilla is bloated because it has the chat and email parts to it.
Whomever picks up the Mozilla will most likely give it a different name. Imagine if IBM or Novell picked up the Mozilla 1.7.X source and named it something else like Watsonzilla 1.8 (IBM named after a former executive) or Netzilla 1.8 (Novell, named after Netware).
This is a big step for anyone who wishes to have a top notch OSS browser as part of their company profile.
Hah, hard to buy a laptop that isn't sold to consumers these days. Not like I can just build one of my own using off the shelf parts, like I can a desktop.
Computer makers need to be honest about if their hardware supports Linux or not, or even if it is only partial support and some devices are not supported. If I knew that, I wouldn't buy this laptop and look for another.
Still no support for my wireless or modem devices in Linux. I even tried Kanoitx which is supposed to have good wireless support.
The person I talked to on the Helpdesk said that installing Linux would void my warranty. Of course they are based in India and outsourced, so they may not have known what they were talking about. It is hard to find a good knowledgeable help desk person after all the outsourcing to other countries have been done.