a freind of mine was told that the DSL ISP firewall software will prevent viruses and trojans from infecting his system and that his AV software was no longer required and could be uninstalled. So he did.
Then he called me, his system couldn't work and would not connect to the Internet. Installed AV software and found like 30 viruses and trojans. Yes, software firewall let them through.
I used to work for a DSL help support line. Some users had their DSL top speeds capped for a reason, we had to tell them that they had poor line quality and thus have lower bandwidth. The real reason was that they exceeded the average bandwidth usage and had their line capped to a lower rate. No such thing as unlimited access.
I installed GNUcelus a file sharing program, and then they shut off my DSL access, claiming virus-like activity. I scanned for viruses and none were found. So I had to tweak the max bandwidth of the GNUcelus program when they switched access back on to a much lower level. They never complained again.
I was promised unlimited bandwidth as well. But going over that limit was called "Virus like activity" and my access was shut off.
from trusting Microsoft. More security update patches, more worm attacks, more spyware/adware, more trojans and viruses, more unstable system crashes. All of these are hidden costs of using Microsoft software and do not happen on Linux. Funny, I didn't see that in the reports on TCO? I wonder how much a few hours of downtime is worth?:)
One day, after getting tired of scrubbing all the workstations in the office of "junk" that I decribed above and applying the upteenth millionth patches to try and prevent it yet again, some PHB is going to think "I wonder if there is an alternative to this Microsoft mess?". That day will be like in "2001: A Space Odyssey" when the pre-human throws the bone up into the air and ponders the possibility of space flight.:)
we are learning in college that the newer Organizational Management can change things. It promotes diversity in the workplace. It works people into teams. It empowers employees. It shares the wealth.
Racism is counter-productive to an organization, and often results in lawsuits. So is discrmination based on age, gender, religion, disability, etc. The organization is effectly shutting out people that could help it grow and earn more money. Sometimes people with different viewpoints can help out greatly.
#1 Change SMTP so that it needs verification to send an email. Spammers can be identified by the verification placed in the headers. Of course any program or script that sends SMTP mail will have to be changed as a downside to this.
#2 Require Spammers to include a "Spam" tag in the headers of the mail they send. That way email programs can filter them out better. It would be hard to enforce this.
#3 Every ISP must have an Anti-Spam program in place like Spam Assasin to filter out Spam.
#4 There should be a national Anti-Spam registry that Spam can be forwarded to in order to be identified so the senders of said Spam can be punished. Let experts track them down.
#5 Change Email programs to use GNUPG or some other encryption to sign emails. Any email not being signed gets moved to a "Suspected Spam" folder. This would require email programs to be rewritten, as well as SMTP sending scripts and programs. Signed Spam can have the key checked and verified who sent it from a global key server.
Someone please tell me why this person is not in prison for spreading viruses? He should share a cell with the kid who modified the MSBlaster worm to steal info.
I am a Programmer/Analyst who lost my job due to the nonsense going around with modern businesses. I am tired of managers who cannot manager properly, and I am back to college to learn business management. I'll be the Anti-PHB that IT folk love to work with. I'll empower them, work them in teams, pay them based on their sucess, and share the wealth. If they make an idea that saves the organization 1M USD, they get 10% of that.
IIRC I voted for that story, I think. I am/was a user there but haven't been active for a while there.
Some people say we IT folk deserve what we are getting for being elitist snobs and drawing too high a salary. I say blame business trends of globalization and outsourcing to offshore companies. IT and Engineering jobs are going away, and other jobs will too just like Factory Work went overseas. It is the break-down of the middle-class, and it makes the rich richer by cutting costs at the risk of low quality and poor production.
Form a Union, go on strike. Watch as managers outsource all IT to another country. Then we can stay at home and watch cartoons, surf the net, until our unemployment runs out.:)
There ought to be an IT walkout day, all IT staff takes a sick day on the same day and turns off their pagers and cell phones and unplugs their phones at home. Also don't check email that day. Let the managers handle anything. Be sure to shut down the servers and change the administration passwords before you leave the day prior to this day.:)
get rid of current employees and replace them with outsourced wage-slaves who will work for a fraction of the salary the terminated employee would have.
Of course the managers went with it, because it saved them money by getting rid of you and contracting out to them. Let us see them try to contain the next Welcha worm from a remote loction.
I decided to stop fighting them and join them, so I am taking business management in college. IT jobs are going away, but management jobs remain. I'll be the Anti-PHB, the computer geek turned manager.:)
The Villian's Union states that Villians must come back in the sequals. This is so they can earn money like the heros do.
If you want an explination, F-Wad wasn't very tastly and gave the dragon indigestion. Apparently he didn't bathe for a month and smelled really bad. The bad smell upset the dragon's stomach and he reguritated F-wad out. Somehow the sweat and dirt combined to make a really bad smelling base that upset the balance in the acid of the Dragon's stomach, causing ulcers.:)
I also heard a rumor that Bobba Fett escaped the Sarlac's stomach, but used every weapon in his suit to cut a hole out of the creature and ruined his armor in the process.:)
If you can find a way around the activation check, or just use XP Pro Corp edition which doesn't do activation checks.
Not really sure what use it would be to have multiple XP virtual machines anyway. It would make more sense to have 95, 98, ME, 2000, and NT 4.0 virtual machines for testing out how your Windows software works on various platforms without buying extra computers.
Originally I wrote "affect" but it didn't look right to me so I changed it to "effect". Looks like I was right the first time. Thanks for the English Lesson.
each release seems to get better over time. I think they are on the right track. I have introduced many to the Mozilla browser and they say it works fine for them. No crashing like IE does, and no major security risks like IE has. Plus Mozilla is multi platform, so it can be used on more than Windows and Linux, even OS/2 Users can enjoy it.
I just wonder what will happen with that Plugins lawsuit against Microsoft, how will that effect Mozilla?
I tried to buy a textbook for a class I am taking, the online campus bookstore sells it for $35USD, but I wanted to get a used one. So I tryed searching the ISBN on Amazon.com and found a used copy of that book for $199USD. Is Amazon.com price gouging us, or are the people selling the used books asking too much?
he was hired away from Pepsi to work at Apple. I think Jobs gave him that old "Do you want to sell sugar water for the rest of your life or do you want to change the world?" speech.
The Newton was fine, except that it cost more than the average person was able to pay, and the handwriting recognition needed work. They fixed it later.
Sculley brought about the Color Macs, under Jobs it was still greyscale and B&W. I have a Mac IIcx under my desk which I don't use. One day I may hook it back up. Maybe run Linux on it or System 7?
Microsoft beat down Apple, Windows kept taking marketshare, and Apple did the best it could to compete. The Creative Content market was the bulk of Apple's marketshare. This helped to cotribute to Apple's Dark Ages and loss of revenue. Microsoft was to blame there, even if it did make software for the Mac, it favored Windows first.
Sculley tried to fill Jobs' shoes, but couldn't. He didn't have the reality distortion field or the creative marketing genius that Jobs had. Meanwhile Next wasn't doing so well and could barely hold it's own. Unix was the future, few people saw that at the time. Jobs knew it because he invested in Unix technology for Next. Meanwhile Linux was getting started and slowly started to gain marketshare. Apple's A/UX needed work, but was put on the back burner to favor MacOS.
Well the boot disk only works with Opterons, while Knoppix will work with almost any X86 system.
Why mention Knoppix? Why not? I think it is a good Linux Distro that can boot off a CD-ROM and has some uses if games are bundled with it. Not everyone can afford an Opteron, after all.
They are still struggling with.Net now. Guy who replaced me lasted about a year, tried to convert everything I wrote to.Net, still haven't had the conversions done. I can see why if they keep futzing with the UI design.
Which is why sometimes it is better to let the developers handle the UI design instead of the managers and users. They just don't understand what UI changes cause on the code side of thing, and why it delays releasing the code.
BTW not only did they take my Red Stapler away, I lost everything when I lost my job. Before that I lost control over my projects to managers who turned IT into a Fast Food Service and Developers into Burger Flippers. Quick, Unhealthy, and Sloppy, that is what they wanted, that is what they get, or else we Developers get let go.
they need to provide ROMs by other companies too before I would buy. Is Atari the only company they worked out a deal with?
I noticed they offer no technical support, so if someone can't get MAME to run, they are SOL unless they log on the MAME forum or access a UseGroup on MAME.
I wonder if you buy the ROM, do you get unlimited downloads of it? Like if you accidentally deleted the ROM, or reformatted your hard drive, could you download it again, or do you need to buy more credits?
make a custom Knoppix boot with a game already on it, and almost any X86 PC can be turned into a gaming console by booting the custom Knoppix CD that loads right into the game. No install needed, just need to be able to boot off a CD-ROM.
Past few jobs I had as a developer, either management or the other employees did the UI design by drawing it or painting it with a paint program. The design constantly changed on their whims. "It is not intiutive" they would say about some UI they designed a week ago, so they would change it again. Not knowing that each change required a lot of rewriting the code. For example, going from a combo box to a listview to three combo boxes requires rewriting of the code and more work for the developer. I often hoped they would get it right the first time, and then I could code it and lock in the code as golden, but no, they had to keep changing their minds.
The book at the time everyone else was reading was "Don't make me think" but it was never passed around to me. Wish they would have let me read it, they only bought one copy (Cheapskates) and while my name was on the list, it never got passed to me. Maybe it would have had they not let me go? All the changes they kept making caused delays in releasing the code I was working on, so I got accused of not working fast enough. Which is why I think it is important to nail down the UI the first time, than to keep guessing at it and changing the UI on the fly.
Look at it this way, if they use a Virus it covers their tracks as to who is sending the spam. They can claim they didn't send it, that the infected system sent it which they don't own. The same for DDos attacks, they can claim other systems did it.
Spammers use Viruses to not only send out Spam, but also to launch DDoS attacks on Anti-Spam sites. I imagine they control them remotely by IRC or some other way to contact the Zombie to do their bidding.
You see by Spamming they already are breaking the law and doing something unethical. Why stop there? Why not create viruses that act as zombies that can send Spam and also launch DDoS attacks at will?
I hope that someone catches these Spammers in the act of spreading viruses and shuts them down.
you will have to rewrite the parts that directly access the hardware into something that C++ or one of the supporting C++ libraries can use. Usually the data can be preserved or converted into something the supported libraries can work with. This is hard because it can be 60% to 90% of the code.
Either that or you create macros or a virtual machine to handle the hardware access.
Now a remake can be hard to do, one example is Telengard for Windows which is based on the old C64 classic game by Avalon Hill. The original sound and graphics are there, but the code had to be rewritten. The sound and graphics are in a new format that the supported libraries that are used can access. As any C64 developer can tell you, the C64 BASIC used a lot of peek and pokes to memory, and Machine Language accessed the chips and memory directly. What he had to do was rewrite the code so it acted and played like the original. Some things he didn't get right, but he did what he could to fix them. Telengard for Windows is not emulated, but it is a native Windows executable.
They claimed that the RIAA was using Kazaa Lite K++, which they also claim is a unauthorized modified version of Kazaa. Still using Kazaa in any form is subject to EULA of Kazaa, and using their network is subject to their TOS. I guess they saw the subpoenas being issued as harassing, or a violation of privacy or something else.
Still many use Kazaa Lite K++ for file sharing, are they too in violation of the license agreement?
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a freind of mine was told that the DSL ISP firewall software will prevent viruses and trojans from infecting his system and that his AV software was no longer required and could be uninstalled. So he did.
Then he called me, his system couldn't work and would not connect to the Internet. Installed AV software and found like 30 viruses and trojans. Yes, software firewall let them through.
I used to work for a DSL help support line. Some users had their DSL top speeds capped for a reason, we had to tell them that they had poor line quality and thus have lower bandwidth. The real reason was that they exceeded the average bandwidth usage and had their line capped to a lower rate. No such thing as unlimited access.
I installed GNUcelus a file sharing program, and then they shut off my DSL access, claiming virus-like activity. I scanned for viruses and none were found. So I had to tweak the max bandwidth of the GNUcelus program when they switched access back on to a much lower level. They never complained again.
I was promised unlimited bandwidth as well. But going over that limit was called "Virus like activity" and my access was shut off.
from trusting Microsoft. More security update patches, more worm attacks, more spyware/adware, more trojans and viruses, more unstable system crashes. All of these are hidden costs of using Microsoft software and do not happen on Linux. Funny, I didn't see that in the reports on TCO? I wonder how much a few hours of downtime is worth? :)
:)
One day, after getting tired of scrubbing all the workstations in the office of "junk" that I decribed above and applying the upteenth millionth patches to try and prevent it yet again, some PHB is going to think "I wonder if there is an alternative to this Microsoft mess?". That day will be like in "2001: A Space Odyssey" when the pre-human throws the bone up into the air and ponders the possibility of space flight.
we are learning in college that the newer Organizational Management can change things. It promotes diversity in the workplace. It works people into teams. It empowers employees. It shares the wealth.
Racism is counter-productive to an organization, and often results in lawsuits. So is discrmination based on age, gender, religion, disability, etc. The organization is effectly shutting out people that could help it grow and earn more money. Sometimes people with different viewpoints can help out greatly.
#1 Change SMTP so that it needs verification to send an email. Spammers can be identified by the verification placed in the headers. Of course any program or script that sends SMTP mail will have to be changed as a downside to this.
#2 Require Spammers to include a "Spam" tag in the headers of the mail they send. That way email programs can filter them out better. It would be hard to enforce this.
#3 Every ISP must have an Anti-Spam program in place like Spam Assasin to filter out Spam.
#4 There should be a national Anti-Spam registry that Spam can be forwarded to in order to be identified so the senders of said Spam can be punished. Let experts track them down.
#5 Change Email programs to use GNUPG or some other encryption to sign emails. Any email not being signed gets moved to a "Suspected Spam" folder. This would require email programs to be rewritten, as well as SMTP sending scripts and programs. Signed Spam can have the key checked and verified who sent it from a global key server.
Someone please tell me why this person is not in prison for spreading viruses? He should share a cell with the kid who modified the MSBlaster worm to steal info.
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I am a Programmer/Analyst who lost my job due to the nonsense going around with modern businesses. I am tired of managers who cannot manager properly, and I am back to college to learn business management. I'll be the Anti-PHB that IT folk love to work with. I'll empower them, work them in teams, pay them based on their sucess, and share the wealth. If they make an idea that saves the organization 1M USD, they get 10% of that.
The Cabal got you, eh? :)
IIRC I voted for that story, I think. I am/was a user there but haven't been active for a while there.
Some people say we IT folk deserve what we are getting for being elitist snobs and drawing too high a salary. I say blame business trends of globalization and outsourcing to offshore companies. IT and Engineering jobs are going away, and other jobs will too just like Factory Work went overseas. It is the break-down of the middle-class, and it makes the rich richer by cutting costs at the risk of low quality and poor production.
Form a Union, go on strike. Watch as managers outsource all IT to another country. Then we can stay at home and watch cartoons, surf the net, until our unemployment runs out. :)
:)
There ought to be an IT walkout day, all IT staff takes a sick day on the same day and turns off their pagers and cell phones and unplugs their phones at home. Also don't check email that day. Let the managers handle anything. Be sure to shut down the servers and change the administration passwords before you leave the day prior to this day.
get rid of current employees and replace them with outsourced wage-slaves who will work for a fraction of the salary the terminated employee would have.
:)
Of course the managers went with it, because it saved them money by getting rid of you and contracting out to them. Let us see them try to contain the next Welcha worm from a remote loction.
I decided to stop fighting them and join them, so I am taking business management in college. IT jobs are going away, but management jobs remain. I'll be the Anti-PHB, the computer geek turned manager.
The Villian's Union states that Villians must come back in the sequals. This is so they can earn money like the heros do.
:)
:)
If you want an explination, F-Wad wasn't very tastly and gave the dragon indigestion. Apparently he didn't bathe for a month and smelled really bad. The bad smell upset the dragon's stomach and he reguritated F-wad out. Somehow the sweat and dirt combined to make a really bad smelling base that upset the balance in the acid of the Dragon's stomach, causing ulcers.
I also heard a rumor that Bobba Fett escaped the Sarlac's stomach, but used every weapon in his suit to cut a hole out of the creature and ruined his armor in the process.
If you can find a way around the activation check, or just use XP Pro Corp edition which doesn't do activation checks.
Not really sure what use it would be to have multiple XP virtual machines anyway. It would make more sense to have 95, 98, ME, 2000, and NT 4.0 virtual machines for testing out how your Windows software works on various platforms without buying extra computers.
Originally I wrote "affect" but it didn't look right to me so I changed it to "effect". Looks like I was right the first time. Thanks for the English Lesson.
each release seems to get better over time. I think they are on the right track. I have introduced many to the Mozilla browser and they say it works fine for them. No crashing like IE does, and no major security risks like IE has. Plus Mozilla is multi platform, so it can be used on more than Windows and Linux, even OS/2 Users can enjoy it.
I just wonder what will happen with that Plugins lawsuit against Microsoft, how will that effect Mozilla?
I tried to buy a textbook for a class I am taking, the online campus bookstore sells it for $35USD, but I wanted to get a used one. So I tryed searching the ISBN on Amazon.com and found a used copy of that book for $199USD. Is Amazon.com price gouging us, or are the people selling the used books asking too much?
he was hired away from Pepsi to work at Apple. I think Jobs gave him that old "Do you want to sell sugar water for the rest of your life or do you want to change the world?" speech.
The Newton was fine, except that it cost more than the average person was able to pay, and the handwriting recognition needed work. They fixed it later.
Sculley brought about the Color Macs, under Jobs it was still greyscale and B&W. I have a Mac IIcx under my desk which I don't use. One day I may hook it back up. Maybe run Linux on it or System 7?
Microsoft beat down Apple, Windows kept taking marketshare, and Apple did the best it could to compete. The Creative Content market was the bulk of Apple's marketshare. This helped to cotribute to Apple's Dark Ages and loss of revenue. Microsoft was to blame there, even if it did make software for the Mac, it favored Windows first.
Sculley tried to fill Jobs' shoes, but couldn't. He didn't have the reality distortion field or the creative marketing genius that Jobs had. Meanwhile Next wasn't doing so well and could barely hold it's own. Unix was the future, few people saw that at the time. Jobs knew it because he invested in Unix technology for Next. Meanwhile Linux was getting started and slowly started to gain marketshare. Apple's A/UX needed work, but was put on the back burner to favor MacOS.
Well the boot disk only works with Opterons, while Knoppix will work with almost any X86 system.
Why mention Knoppix? Why not? I think it is a good Linux Distro that can boot off a CD-ROM and has some uses if games are bundled with it. Not everyone can afford an Opteron, after all.
They are still struggling with .Net now. Guy who replaced me lasted about a year, tried to convert everything I wrote to .Net, still haven't had the conversions done. I can see why if they keep futzing with the UI design.
Which is why sometimes it is better to let the developers handle the UI design instead of the managers and users. They just don't understand what UI changes cause on the code side of thing, and why it delays releasing the code.
BTW not only did they take my Red Stapler away, I lost everything when I lost my job. Before that I lost control over my projects to managers who turned IT into a Fast Food Service and Developers into Burger Flippers. Quick, Unhealthy, and Sloppy, that is what they wanted, that is what they get, or else we Developers get let go.
they need to provide ROMs by other companies too before I would buy. Is Atari the only company they worked out a deal with?
I noticed they offer no technical support, so if someone can't get MAME to run, they are SOL unless they log on the MAME forum or access a UseGroup on MAME.
I wonder if you buy the ROM, do you get unlimited downloads of it? Like if you accidentally deleted the ROM, or reformatted your hard drive, could you download it again, or do you need to buy more credits?
make a custom Knoppix boot with a game already on it, and almost any X86 PC can be turned into a gaming console by booting the custom Knoppix CD that loads right into the game. No install needed, just need to be able to boot off a CD-ROM.
Past few jobs I had as a developer, either management or the other employees did the UI design by drawing it or painting it with a paint program. The design constantly changed on their whims. "It is not intiutive" they would say about some UI they designed a week ago, so they would change it again. Not knowing that each change required a lot of rewriting the code. For example, going from a combo box to a listview to three combo boxes requires rewriting of the code and more work for the developer. I often hoped they would get it right the first time, and then I could code it and lock in the code as golden, but no, they had to keep changing their minds.
The book at the time everyone else was reading was "Don't make me think" but it was never passed around to me. Wish they would have let me read it, they only bought one copy (Cheapskates) and while my name was on the list, it never got passed to me. Maybe it would have had they not let me go? All the changes they kept making caused delays in releasing the code I was working on, so I got accused of not working fast enough. Which is why I think it is important to nail down the UI the first time, than to keep guessing at it and changing the UI on the fly.
Look at it this way, if they use a Virus it covers their tracks as to who is sending the spam. They can claim they didn't send it, that the infected system sent it which they don't own. The same for DDos attacks, they can claim other systems did it.
Spammers use Viruses to not only send out Spam, but also to launch DDoS attacks on Anti-Spam sites. I imagine they control them remotely by IRC or some other way to contact the Zombie to do their bidding.
You see by Spamming they already are breaking the law and doing something unethical. Why stop there? Why not create viruses that act as zombies that can send Spam and also launch DDoS attacks at will?
I hope that someone catches these Spammers in the act of spreading viruses and shuts them down.
Either that or you create macros or a virtual machine to handle the hardware access.
Now a remake can be hard to do, one example is Telengard for Windows which is based on the old C64 classic game by Avalon Hill. The original sound and graphics are there, but the code had to be rewritten. The sound and graphics are in a new format that the supported libraries that are used can access. As any C64 developer can tell you, the C64 BASIC used a lot of peek and pokes to memory, and Machine Language accessed the chips and memory directly. What he had to do was rewrite the code so it acted and played like the original. Some things he didn't get right, but he did what he could to fix them. Telengard for Windows is not emulated, but it is a native Windows executable.
They claimed that the RIAA was using Kazaa Lite K++, which they also claim is a unauthorized modified version of Kazaa. Still using Kazaa in any form is subject to EULA of Kazaa, and using their network is subject to their TOS. I guess they saw the subpoenas being issued as harassing, or a violation of privacy or something else.
Still many use Kazaa Lite K++ for file sharing, are they too in violation of the license agreement?