can't afford to rent politicians either to pass laws in their favor. Here in the good old USA we got the best government that money can buy. Problem is, the average citizen cannot afford much but the MegaCorps can.
Anti-Spam was as close as we could get to an Internet Police Force. Sort of like posting wanted posters of the Spammers.
All is not lost, consider Spam Assasin if you are not afraid of Perl. It can help you block the Spam and does not cost a lot. Of course Windows users can download SAProxy a pre-compiled version, so they don't need to mess with Perl. At first it blocks about 50% to 60% of Spam, but you have to feed it Spam examples that slip through so it learns. You also need to feed it Ham (Non-Spam) examples so it learns from that as well. It only works with POP3 clients, so no AOL or MS Exchange mail.
If they were brave enough, they would have posted their blacklists to the Internet for others to pick up where they left off.
This is a sad event for those who want to shut down the Spammers, they got shut down themselves.
need I remind anyone that the 9/11 Terrorists all had Visa or Bogus Visa information. One of them even got stopped for a speeding ticket and had a bogus driver's license. Apparently they can forge or fake Visa information. So they don't need to go through our Visa system when they can steal a Visa or produce a fake one good enough to get through our system.
Either they need to patch their Windows servers and install a software firewall and keep their AntiVirus programs updated, or they need to get off of Windows and move to Linux or something that the Windows viruses won't run on.
How do we know that the virus didn't do something like pass certain Visa applications through without a security check? How do we know that Terrorists aren't using viruses to cause damage and bypass security in Visa checks? I heard that North Korea spends $3M USD a year to create viruses and trojans to attack various countries and systems. I wonder what other countries and organizations do this?
#1 Create web pages with your email address on them, and submit them to various search engines. Wait a few weeks for them to index the page.
#2 Enter the address into your web browser for Anonymous FTP access and access a lot of anonymos FTP sites. Enter it as a default address and visit a lot of web pages and see if the bots pick it up.
#3 Enter the address into ICQ, YIM, IRC, AIM, Jabber, and other chat clients. Join massive discussions. Someone is bound to harvest your email address.
#4 Register the address with various web sites, and be sure to mark the "do not send my account email" options. They will instead sell your account to others. Register it with Microsoft, Yahoo, AOL, and many other companies. Make sure you checked the "Do not contact me" or whatever options.
#5 Post messages on Yahoo Groups, and Web Forums using that address. Someone will pick it up and spam you.
Almost anything (but not everything) can be found on the Internet. Sometimes more info about us that we wanted to make public. A lot of forums and groups are submitted to search engines and indexed.
Also companys are offering our information for sale, for $100USD I can buy my complete credit, criminal, medical, and court history from many different services. I can even buy a SSN and other information by providing a name, address, phone number, and the money. Big Brother lives, apparently and is selling our information.
If it wasn't for the Internet, the Windows Worms wouldn't spread so fast. But then they also wouldn't be detected so fast either. As opposed to sneakernet which used floppy disks to exchange files and info. That spread viruses slower.
I agree, some people shouldn't have Internet access, and others abuse it. Phishing is a very bad scam where someone spoofs an email from a company and claims the user has to reactivate their account by entering personal info into an email form. This includes bank account numbers, SSN, credit card numbers, address, phone numbers, mother's maidnen name, etc. All the info goes to the Phisher's web site and he/she can use it to steal the account and steal the identity of the victim. Not everyone falls for it, but those that do get ripped off and lose access to their accounts.
Nigerian Bank scams is another thing that ticks me off, pretending to be someone else and then asking for bank account numbers to deposit millions of dollars into and instead cleaning those bank accounts out.
Then all the Script-Kiddies and Kiddie Porn make matters worse. They should lose Internet access for doing those things. Too bad hardly anyone enforces that unless they get caught and go to jail for it.
I've had people steal my identity online by creating bogus accounts and putting my real information on it. I had Yahoo remove the post someone made using my real name and phone number, and I hope they have disabled the accounts they used. They put bogus info about me on those accounts that was just not true and is offensive to me. I also had people do this to me on Kuro5hin and other places. They usually get a slap on the wrist for doing that.
What we need is an Internet Police force and a set of rules for them to enforce. Everyone must follow those rules, or risk losing their Internet access. This has not yet been done, but needs to be done badly.
Has Linux based Virus scanner that can update itself to scan hard drives for known viruses. That way if Windows goes Wonky, boot to Knoppix and do a virus scan to see if you got infected.
That way you won't risk running an infected machine on the Internet and infect others.
Microsoft hasn't fixed the BSOD problems since Windows 95, how will this effect ATMs running Windows?
As far as I knew Dibold and Interbold ATMs used a form of OS/2 and were rock solid hardly ever crashing.
Nothing would bug me more that a whole batch of local ATMs that are out of service due to a BSOD or the latest Windows Worm turning them into Porn Zombies or something else.
I wonder if they will port Mozilla to the C64, or at least Lynx or Mosiac? Nothing like browsing the web in 16 different colors, but MIDI/MOD songs will sound great on the SID chip.
I wonder if Adobe will port Acrobat Reader to the C64? Imagine if Apple did a Quicktime port? How about Shockwave Flash too.
I remember that a company bought out the C64 and its games and had a web portal to buy them. Imagine if they created a subscription service to download and play C64 games over this broadband device for an actual C64? Best use I can think of an Ethernet adapter for a C64. Has to be faster than loading the games from a 1541 drive or tape.:)
Symantec is getting my money for Norton Internet Firewall 2004 and Norton AntiVirus 2004, a shame it doesn't ship until after October 1st.
I'd switch to Linux, but most of my marketable skills are with Microsoft technologies. So an updated Software Firewall and AntiVirus are going to be bought soon. Pick your favorite Firewall and AV programs and updated them if you run Windows. I pity those who don't.
Soon I'll try to buy a new system and put Red Hat 9.0 on my old one. Slowly I'll learn Linux Apps that do the same thing as Microsoft Apps. The Windows system will have software Firewall and AV programs on it. Slowly I'll move to WINE or buy a Commercial version of WINE and move what Windows apps don't have a Linux alternative to the Linux box.
Not sure if I can break the Windows habit, but I'll be a lot safer if I do.
Will they be hit with fines too? Or is it just the Spammers in the UK that get hit with the fines?
I hope that the USA adopts a law like this, unless the donotcall.gov website can be modified to accept email on a Do not Spam list?
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Last few places I worked at didn't care about security. They thought it only slowed down production and they wanted us to write code as fast as possible. I wasn't fast enough, so I got let go.
I tried to get into that website on security programming, and it said my user name already existed. How many Orion_Blastar accounts are there in the world, or is it a spoofer? So then I thought maybe I joined before and forgot about it, so I went to "Forgot Password" and got an error screen when I submitted it. Secure but buggy.
Using an ink pen to remove those SIMM/DIMM memory chips, nothing like breaking off the tip of an inkpen and spilling the ink on the motherboard. Never use anything like a small slotted screwdriver or pliers.
Oh yeah, be sure to clean the CPU and CPU socket with a used toothbrush. Nothing beats the scraping of a used toothbrush to ruin a CPU and CPU socket.
Also make sure that you leave the PCI and ISA cards in partway, don't push down on them just slide them in and then power on the system. Don't even bother putting a screw to hold them in place. Be sure to jerk the case around before you put it back in place.
Also should by some miricle you get the system bootable, always hit Reset or power off before shutting down the OS, so you can kill the hard drive too. Act like the whole computer is your personal game console and just power off right in the middle of running an important program with lots of files open.
but one can argue that Microsoft leaves part of Windows open so that the government can break into a system of a criminal to see what data they have. Windows may be flawed by design so that our government can spy on us. Maybe that is why they were so light on the DOJ case on Microsoft, because they had an agreement to make Microsoft a monoploy so that a majority of the population could use a flawed product that security can easily be broken into in case of an investigation. Ever heard of Magic Latern? The Government's Worm that can capture keystrokes, and allow access to virtually any system that gets infected. I believe that this is not a coincidence.
The problem happens is that non-criminals get invaded too, by Spyware and Adware and Worms and Viruses. Microsoft doesn't seem to be too interested in fixing this stuff. I remember when MS-DOS 6.X came with an Anti-Virus program, but they quickly dropped it when Windows 95 came out.
Running an OS like Linux or FreeBSD will not be infected by Windows viruses and worms, but you will get email from Windows users that got infected and somehow got your email address in their Outlook program or the worm scanned it from the Internet.
Face facts, if you run Windows, you are at risk of bad security. Run a Virus scanner that gets updated every week or sooner, and run a Firewall software to keep out port attacks. If you aren't doing this, you are even more at risk! I pity those who don't even run an updated Virus Scanner.
One day maybe the world will wake up and notice that Microsoft does not care about security, and abandon them and switch to something else. But much like the abused Girlfriend, they keep going back to the abuser again and again. It is a abusive relationship with Microsoft that most companies and individuals will have to break off eventually.
US Law states differently, they call it unauthorized access. He wasn't given access to the whole system, just parts of it. He used the holes to exploit security to get around it to access parts of the system that the public is not meant to see.
But yes you do have a point that they didn't do anything to plug those holes. Sort of like blaming someone for walking into your shop at night because you didn't put a lock on your door or have a security system working. One could argue that you were inviting them in. At least the Police say that to people who left Windows open at night and a robber used the Window to get into the house and rob it.
Not so easy to ask for forgiveness when someone is trying to make an example out of you for the legal system to prevent further crimes of the same nature.
BeOS is just about done, the Amiga of operating systems. It only lives on because of its fans, much like OS/2 does.
Apple did some damage too, by not releasing the specs needed to run on G3 PowerMacs so Be had to leave the PowerMac market and focus on the WINTEL market.
The BeBox was a glorious invention, the Geekport is a great expansion port.
The main problem is where are the apps? Microsoft donimated the market so much that few developers even considered developing for BeOS. Most games are still developed for Windows, so the GameHeads need their box to run Windows.
Another problem was driver support, much like OS/2 driver support, most hardware makers didn't want to support it. So you had to pick your hardware carefully.
Be.com is for sale, and beincorporated.com no longer sells BeOS. Palm bought it.
OpenBeOS is in the works to make an Open Sourced BeOS.
YellowTab has Zeta, based on BeOS which can still be bought.
More power to them, I just hope it ends up being better than that Freedows project.:)
I thought China standardized on Red Flag Linux? I guess they want something easier to use and configure? A Windows clone could do that.
The thing that scares Microsoft is that they could end up selling the Asian Windows Clone to other markets and take away sales from Microsoft. Imagine if they made an English version and sold it to the US, UK, and Canada and then they made versions for other languages and sold them to the world?
But Microsoft is abandoning the Windows platform, Longhorn won't run Legacy Windows or DOS programs. So why should Microsoft care at this point? By the time the Asian Windows Clone comes out, Longhorn may be out.
The trick is to discover the Windows Undocumented API codes that Microsoft doesn't like to give out. But didn't China or some other country view the Windows source code as part of the Monopoly abuse case? Interesting to say the least.
If he was hired to test security it would be a different matter. But he allegedly broke into those systems without permission. That puts him in violation of Cybercrime laws.
I feel sorry for him, because he did allegedly report the weaknesses to the admins and he could have just read the data and not told anyone and used the information for his on purposes. So his intentions were good, to plug security holes by finding them and telling the admins about it. But he is doing it the wrong way, without permission.
He may want to think about pleading guilty and making a deal to get reduced charges. This will make him famous and when he gets out of jail and ends probation, he can become a security consultant. Otherwise they may try to make an example out of him and charge him with a full pentalty and any other charges they can think of.
But then the places he broke into didn't use good security practices and didn't apply the latest updates. Personally, I wouldn't put a machine on the Internet that contains sensitive data on it that only my company should have access to like contact information, credit card numbers, etc.
What about an advanced version with more features available for a price? Sort of like Red Hat Advanced Server. They add stuff to it, and charge more for it.
Sort of like having a bucket, which isn't full for the Open Sourced basic package but it is free. If you want more features, you fill up the bucket more for a price. If you want ownership of the code, it can be released from GPL or whatever Open Sourced License to a Commercial License for a hefty fee and then you are free to make your own private version of it.
So you could have a Document Management system designed for a single user with basic features as Open Source Licensed. Let's call it DocMan Lite. For a $100USD Fee they can buy DocMan Pro on a CD which can used a shared network database for multiple users and workgroups with advanced filtering for Client and Matter numbers, Workgroup codes, Practice Areas, and other things as well as a full text search engine. For a $35,000USD fee they can get the code released from the Open Source License and develop their own private version of it.
Of course support can be purchased, but then what is to stop someone from making an alt.software.docman Newsgroup for free support or a web forum? Then your support fees go down the toliet as people can get it for free instead of paying for it.
Open Sourced companies need a new business model, conventional business models won't work.
When I last worked for a large law firm, our boss couldn't say "NO" to any request, no matter how difficult or insane. If they want it done in a short amount of time, we have to work 80+ hour work weeks for no extra pay to get it done. I couldn't do that because I have a family that needs me at home, and a son who needs a babysitter and the babysitter won't work extra hours so someone has to pick him up on time. My wife works as an LPN and has long hour days, so if I worked long hours there would be nobody to pick up our son from the babysitter.
Many tasks were just beyond my talent, like creating reoccuring dates in a calendar program which nobody else had any ideas how to do. I even asked on the Experts Exchange and got no results. But, they say, Outlook can do it, so it must be easy to do.
Also how can I get work done when every day they keep making changes to the program and the way it should look? I make all their changes, and then someone says "It is not intuitive" so they re-arrange it several more times until everyone is happy. Whatever happened to having IT making the UI and the way it should look? I would be happier if everyone got into a meeting, decicde how it should look, let me code that, and if they decide to change their minds later don't make the UI changes until the next version comes out.
What really got me is people promoted to management who have no idea how IT works, but they have final say over IT tasks and projects. I had one woman who told me to change the name of something she saw in a database to something else. I tried to tell her that it is a database column and that changing it means changing all the queries and stored procedures and triggers associated with it. She had no idea what column meant, even if she did claim to be an Excel expert. So my boss had me use "Pieces of information" instead, and then she got mad that I was "dumbing it down" for her. I told her that I can change the labels that name it, and descriptions to it, but she wanted the column name changed. So after changing anything that touched that column name, she decides to change it again! She had no idea of all the extra work she was creating for us. She also had no idea why it was taking so long to change, as she only took 15 minutes to write the email about it.
Also other departments bashed IT at every chance they got with no punishment. We couldn't say anything back, even if they cussed at us. Why do people get so emotional over computers and programs anyway? It is just a tool to use, and bashing the IT department won't get their problems solved any quicker. We're doing our best, and are overworked, and underpaid, but they treat us like sub-human creatures not human beings.
Also at first signs of a profit loss, IT people are almost always first to be laid off. Shouldn't they lay off the people who made the mistakes which lead to the profit loss? Blame accounting for not noticing the trend that sales were down. Blame marketing for not marketing the product right. Blame sales for losing customers. Blame management for not doing their jobs right. Just don't blame the people who keep on running those computers for you so you can get your jobs done.
16 bits cannot compare to the 32 and 64 bit consoles already out there. Also the game carts don't hold more than 64K, and this is how games are to be delivered? Can't even run Doom 1.0 on a 64K cart, so what kinds of games are they going to have for this system?
Wake me up when they get the IDE module for CD-ROM, DVD, and hard drive interfaces. Maybe then you can load some real modern games on it?
16 bit CPU is limited, can't even do a Playstation emulation and you know that there are many Playstation emulators out on the market for Windows, Linux etc.
The only benefit I can really see with this console is an educational one. Learning how to write simple games for a limited environment.
I imagine it won't be long before someone writes a n XGameStation emulator for the various operating systems out there. Then this console box will be toast.
Now if someone else picked up where Indrema left off and build a Linux game console kit, that could be better. Use an AMD Duron at 1.0 Ghz, 256M of RAM, DVD-ROM drive, and a NVIDIA chipset with a decent sound chipset and you could be talking a serious XBox/PS2/Gamecube killer here.
the power went off on his computer and all of a sudden he was into CMOS with it asking him for CPU settings like voltage and clock speed.
I asked him if he had entered CMOS himself or if the computer had booted into it. He didn't answer me, just said he was in CMOS. Usually it detects an error and asks you to hit F1 or DEL to enter CMOS settings, etc. So I had him select Standard settings, not knowing what clock speed and voltage his CPU was as I didn't build his computer and the guy who did wasn't the guy he called when things went wrong. So he starts talking about different things for 15 minutes. I asked him if the settings took, and he said No, it still says Standard settings and didn't change the screen. I wondered if he hit the Enter key, he said he did, but still no change on the screen. I had him hit the enter key again, and he said it took that time. I then asked him to hit Enter on the hard drive setting, he talked about different things, and then said the computer was rebooting. I didn't tell him to reboot yet, and I was waiting to hear if he had the CMOS actually detect the hard drives. No answer from him on that. So I asked him again, and he said he did but now it says hard drive failure.
I got fustrated, this is my best friend after all, Automotive Expert, but not sure how to enter CMOS settings. So now tomorrow he is bringing his computer over to my house so I can properly look at it. I have no idea if he actualy hit the settings I told him to, or if he was doing something else. If he did do what I told him to, I couldn't tell from the phone call, and his hard drive controller or hard drives may be fried. If he didn't do what I told him to, and he just entered random numbers for the hard drive instead of auto detecting them, then I can see why he got the hard drive failure message.
I used to work at a help desk, I'll never work at a help desk again if I can help it!
Take into consideration games like FreeCiv that are rewrites of classic computer games. Everyone remembers Civilizations, but it didn't run on as many platforms as FreeCiv does.
With Open Source being so popular, people can write a program to act like a Classic program and even look like it, but be a totally differnet source code frm the original. Then port it to different platforms. So we get a Classic Rewrite.
Take for example Telengard for Windows a Windows re-write of the Classic C64 game. See how the game looked like and played on a C64, but on Windows instead.
We just need more people to re-write the classics to save them.
Well if they were smart, the arcade game makers would bundle MAME with some of their older ROMS on a CD-ROM and sell it for $30 - $40 USD as Arcade Classics or something. They would have to modify MAME to encrypt and decrypt the ROMs so someone wouldn't just copy them and upload them via a File Sharer to some friends.
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can't afford to rent politicians either to pass laws in their favor. Here in the good old USA we got the best government that money can buy. Problem is, the average citizen cannot afford much but the MegaCorps can.
All is not lost, consider Spam Assasin if you are not afraid of Perl. It can help you block the Spam and does not cost a lot. Of course Windows users can download SAProxy a pre-compiled version, so they don't need to mess with Perl. At first it blocks about 50% to 60% of Spam, but you have to feed it Spam examples that slip through so it learns. You also need to feed it Ham (Non-Spam) examples so it learns from that as well. It only works with POP3 clients, so no AOL or MS Exchange mail.
If they were brave enough, they would have posted their blacklists to the Internet for others to pick up where they left off.
This is a sad event for those who want to shut down the Spammers, they got shut down themselves.
need I remind anyone that the 9/11 Terrorists all had Visa or Bogus Visa information. One of them even got stopped for a speeding ticket and had a bogus driver's license. Apparently they can forge or fake Visa information. So they don't need to go through our Visa system when they can steal a Visa or produce a fake one good enough to get through our system.
Either they need to patch their Windows servers and install a software firewall and keep their AntiVirus programs updated, or they need to get off of Windows and move to Linux or something that the Windows viruses won't run on.
How do we know that the virus didn't do something like pass certain Visa applications through without a security check? How do we know that Terrorists aren't using viruses to cause damage and bypass security in Visa checks? I heard that North Korea spends $3M USD a year to create viruses and trojans to attack various countries and systems. I wonder what other countries and organizations do this?
#1 Create web pages with your email address on them, and submit them to various search engines. Wait a few weeks for them to index the page.
#2 Enter the address into your web browser for Anonymous FTP access and access a lot of anonymos FTP sites. Enter it as a default address and visit a lot of web pages and see if the bots pick it up.
#3 Enter the address into ICQ, YIM, IRC, AIM, Jabber, and other chat clients. Join massive discussions. Someone is bound to harvest your email address.
#4 Register the address with various web sites, and be sure to mark the "do not send my account email" options. They will instead sell your account to others. Register it with Microsoft, Yahoo, AOL, and many other companies. Make sure you checked the "Do not contact me" or whatever options.
#5 Post messages on Yahoo Groups, and Web Forums using that address. Someone will pick it up and spam you.
Almost anything (but not everything) can be found on the Internet. Sometimes more info about us that we wanted to make public. A lot of forums and groups are submitted to search engines and indexed.
Also companys are offering our information for sale, for $100USD I can buy my complete credit, criminal, medical, and court history from many different services. I can even buy a SSN and other information by providing a name, address, phone number, and the money. Big Brother lives, apparently and is selling our information.
If it wasn't for the Internet, the Windows Worms wouldn't spread so fast. But then they also wouldn't be detected so fast either. As opposed to sneakernet which used floppy disks to exchange files and info. That spread viruses slower.
I agree, some people shouldn't have Internet access, and others abuse it. Phishing is a very bad scam where someone spoofs an email from a company and claims the user has to reactivate their account by entering personal info into an email form. This includes bank account numbers, SSN, credit card numbers, address, phone numbers, mother's maidnen name, etc. All the info goes to the Phisher's web site and he/she can use it to steal the account and steal the identity of the victim. Not everyone falls for it, but those that do get ripped off and lose access to their accounts.
Nigerian Bank scams is another thing that ticks me off, pretending to be someone else and then asking for bank account numbers to deposit millions of dollars into and instead cleaning those bank accounts out.
Then all the Script-Kiddies and Kiddie Porn make matters worse. They should lose Internet access for doing those things. Too bad hardly anyone enforces that unless they get caught and go to jail for it.
I've had people steal my identity online by creating bogus accounts and putting my real information on it. I had Yahoo remove the post someone made using my real name and phone number, and I hope they have disabled the accounts they used. They put bogus info about me on those accounts that was just not true and is offensive to me. I also had people do this to me on Kuro5hin and other places. They usually get a slap on the wrist for doing that.
What we need is an Internet Police force and a set of rules for them to enforce. Everyone must follow those rules, or risk losing their Internet access. This has not yet been done, but needs to be done badly.
Has Linux based Virus scanner that can update itself to scan hard drives for known viruses. That way if Windows goes Wonky, boot to Knoppix and do a virus scan to see if you got infected.
That way you won't risk running an infected machine on the Internet and infect others.
Microsoft hasn't fixed the BSOD problems since Windows 95, how will this effect ATMs running Windows?
As far as I knew Dibold and Interbold ATMs used a form of OS/2 and were rock solid hardly ever crashing.
Nothing would bug me more that a whole batch of local ATMs that are out of service due to a BSOD or the latest Windows Worm turning them into Porn Zombies or something else.
I wonder if they will port Mozilla to the C64, or at least Lynx or Mosiac? Nothing like browsing the web in 16 different colors, but MIDI/MOD songs will sound great on the SID chip.
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I wonder if Adobe will port Acrobat Reader to the C64? Imagine if Apple did a Quicktime port? How about Shockwave Flash too.
I remember that a company bought out the C64 and its games and had a web portal to buy them. Imagine if they created a subscription service to download and play C64 games over this broadband device for an actual C64? Best use I can think of an Ethernet adapter for a C64. Has to be faster than loading the games from a 1541 drive or tape.
C64 users, welcome to our world.
Symantec is getting my money for Norton Internet Firewall 2004 and Norton AntiVirus 2004, a shame it doesn't ship until after October 1st.
I'd switch to Linux, but most of my marketable skills are with Microsoft technologies. So an updated Software Firewall and AntiVirus are going to be bought soon. Pick your favorite Firewall and AV programs and updated them if you run Windows. I pity those who don't.
Soon I'll try to buy a new system and put Red Hat 9.0 on my old one. Slowly I'll learn Linux Apps that do the same thing as Microsoft Apps. The Windows system will have software Firewall and AV programs on it. Slowly I'll move to WINE or buy a Commercial version of WINE and move what Windows apps don't have a Linux alternative to the Linux box.
Not sure if I can break the Windows habit, but I'll be a lot safer if I do.
Will they be hit with fines too? Or is it just the Spammers in the UK that get hit with the fines?
I hope that the USA adopts a law like this, unless the donotcall.gov website can be modified to accept email on a Do not Spam list?
Last few places I worked at didn't care about security. They thought it only slowed down production and they wanted us to write code as fast as possible. I wasn't fast enough, so I got let go.
I tried to get into that website on security programming, and it said my user name already existed. How many Orion_Blastar accounts are there in the world, or is it a spoofer? So then I thought maybe I joined before and forgot about it, so I went to "Forgot Password" and got an error screen when I submitted it. Secure but buggy.
Using an ink pen to remove those SIMM/DIMM memory chips, nothing like breaking off the tip of an inkpen and spilling the ink on the motherboard. Never use anything like a small slotted screwdriver or pliers.
Oh yeah, be sure to clean the CPU and CPU socket with a used toothbrush. Nothing beats the scraping of a used toothbrush to ruin a CPU and CPU socket.
Also make sure that you leave the PCI and ISA cards in partway, don't push down on them just slide them in and then power on the system. Don't even bother putting a screw to hold them in place. Be sure to jerk the case around before you put it back in place.
Also should by some miricle you get the system bootable, always hit Reset or power off before shutting down the OS, so you can kill the hard drive too. Act like the whole computer is your personal game console and just power off right in the middle of running an important program with lots of files open.
but one can argue that Microsoft leaves part of Windows open so that the government can break into a system of a criminal to see what data they have. Windows may be flawed by design so that our government can spy on us. Maybe that is why they were so light on the DOJ case on Microsoft, because they had an agreement to make Microsoft a monoploy so that a majority of the population could use a flawed product that security can easily be broken into in case of an investigation. Ever heard of Magic Latern? The Government's Worm that can capture keystrokes, and allow access to virtually any system that gets infected. I believe that this is not a coincidence.
The problem happens is that non-criminals get invaded too, by Spyware and Adware and Worms and Viruses. Microsoft doesn't seem to be too interested in fixing this stuff. I remember when MS-DOS 6.X came with an Anti-Virus program, but they quickly dropped it when Windows 95 came out.
Running an OS like Linux or FreeBSD will not be infected by Windows viruses and worms, but you will get email from Windows users that got infected and somehow got your email address in their Outlook program or the worm scanned it from the Internet.
Face facts, if you run Windows, you are at risk of bad security. Run a Virus scanner that gets updated every week or sooner, and run a Firewall software to keep out port attacks. If you aren't doing this, you are even more at risk! I pity those who don't even run an updated Virus Scanner.
One day maybe the world will wake up and notice that Microsoft does not care about security, and abandon them and switch to something else. But much like the abused Girlfriend, they keep going back to the abuser again and again. It is a abusive relationship with Microsoft that most companies and individuals will have to break off eventually.
US Law states differently, they call it unauthorized access. He wasn't given access to the whole system, just parts of it. He used the holes to exploit security to get around it to access parts of the system that the public is not meant to see.
But yes you do have a point that they didn't do anything to plug those holes. Sort of like blaming someone for walking into your shop at night because you didn't put a lock on your door or have a security system working. One could argue that you were inviting them in. At least the Police say that to people who left Windows open at night and a robber used the Window to get into the house and rob it.
Not so easy to ask for forgiveness when someone is trying to make an example out of you for the legal system to prevent further crimes of the same nature.
Apple did some damage too, by not releasing the specs needed to run on G3 PowerMacs so Be had to leave the PowerMac market and focus on the WINTEL market.
The BeBox was a glorious invention, the Geekport is a great expansion port.
The main problem is where are the apps? Microsoft donimated the market so much that few developers even considered developing for BeOS. Most games are still developed for Windows, so the GameHeads need their box to run Windows.
Another problem was driver support, much like OS/2 driver support, most hardware makers didn't want to support it. So you had to pick your hardware carefully.
Be.com is for sale, and beincorporated.com no longer sells BeOS. Palm bought it.
OpenBeOS is in the works to make an Open Sourced BeOS.
YellowTab has Zeta, based on BeOS which can still be bought.
BeOS 5 Personal Edition is still available as a download from BeBits
More power to them, I just hope it ends up being better than that Freedows project. :)
I thought China standardized on Red Flag Linux? I guess they want something easier to use and configure? A Windows clone could do that.
The thing that scares Microsoft is that they could end up selling the Asian Windows Clone to other markets and take away sales from Microsoft. Imagine if they made an English version and sold it to the US, UK, and Canada and then they made versions for other languages and sold them to the world?
But Microsoft is abandoning the Windows platform, Longhorn won't run Legacy Windows or DOS programs. So why should Microsoft care at this point? By the time the Asian Windows Clone comes out, Longhorn may be out.
The trick is to discover the Windows Undocumented API codes that Microsoft doesn't like to give out. But didn't China or some other country view the Windows source code as part of the Monopoly abuse case? Interesting to say the least.
If he was hired to test security it would be a different matter. But he allegedly broke into those systems without permission. That puts him in violation of Cybercrime laws.
I feel sorry for him, because he did allegedly report the weaknesses to the admins and he could have just read the data and not told anyone and used the information for his on purposes. So his intentions were good, to plug security holes by finding them and telling the admins about it. But he is doing it the wrong way, without permission.
He may want to think about pleading guilty and making a deal to get reduced charges. This will make him famous and when he gets out of jail and ends probation, he can become a security consultant. Otherwise they may try to make an example out of him and charge him with a full pentalty and any other charges they can think of.
But then the places he broke into didn't use good security practices and didn't apply the latest updates. Personally, I wouldn't put a machine on the Internet that contains sensitive data on it that only my company should have access to like contact information, credit card numbers, etc.
What about an advanced version with more features available for a price? Sort of like Red Hat Advanced Server. They add stuff to it, and charge more for it.
Sort of like having a bucket, which isn't full for the Open Sourced basic package but it is free. If you want more features, you fill up the bucket more for a price. If you want ownership of the code, it can be released from GPL or whatever Open Sourced License to a Commercial License for a hefty fee and then you are free to make your own private version of it.
So you could have a Document Management system designed for a single user with basic features as Open Source Licensed. Let's call it DocMan Lite. For a $100USD Fee they can buy DocMan Pro on a CD which can used a shared network database for multiple users and workgroups with advanced filtering for Client and Matter numbers, Workgroup codes, Practice Areas, and other things as well as a full text search engine. For a $35,000USD fee they can get the code released from the Open Source License and develop their own private version of it.
Of course support can be purchased, but then what is to stop someone from making an alt.software.docman Newsgroup for free support or a web forum? Then your support fees go down the toliet as people can get it for free instead of paying for it.
Open Sourced companies need a new business model, conventional business models won't work.
When I last worked for a large law firm, our boss couldn't say "NO" to any request, no matter how difficult or insane. If they want it done in a short amount of time, we have to work 80+ hour work weeks for no extra pay to get it done. I couldn't do that because I have a family that needs me at home, and a son who needs a babysitter and the babysitter won't work extra hours so someone has to pick him up on time. My wife works as an LPN and has long hour days, so if I worked long hours there would be nobody to pick up our son from the babysitter.
Many tasks were just beyond my talent, like creating reoccuring dates in a calendar program which nobody else had any ideas how to do. I even asked on the Experts Exchange and got no results. But, they say, Outlook can do it, so it must be easy to do.
Also how can I get work done when every day they keep making changes to the program and the way it should look? I make all their changes, and then someone says "It is not intuitive" so they re-arrange it several more times until everyone is happy. Whatever happened to having IT making the UI and the way it should look? I would be happier if everyone got into a meeting, decicde how it should look, let me code that, and if they decide to change their minds later don't make the UI changes until the next version comes out.
What really got me is people promoted to management who have no idea how IT works, but they have final say over IT tasks and projects. I had one woman who told me to change the name of something she saw in a database to something else. I tried to tell her that it is a database column and that changing it means changing all the queries and stored procedures and triggers associated with it. She had no idea what column meant, even if she did claim to be an Excel expert. So my boss had me use "Pieces of information" instead, and then she got mad that I was "dumbing it down" for her. I told her that I can change the labels that name it, and descriptions to it, but she wanted the column name changed. So after changing anything that touched that column name, she decides to change it again! She had no idea of all the extra work she was creating for us. She also had no idea why it was taking so long to change, as she only took 15 minutes to write the email about it.
Also other departments bashed IT at every chance they got with no punishment. We couldn't say anything back, even if they cussed at us. Why do people get so emotional over computers and programs anyway? It is just a tool to use, and bashing the IT department won't get their problems solved any quicker. We're doing our best, and are overworked, and underpaid, but they treat us like sub-human creatures not human beings.
Also at first signs of a profit loss, IT people are almost always first to be laid off. Shouldn't they lay off the people who made the mistakes which lead to the profit loss? Blame accounting for not noticing the trend that sales were down. Blame marketing for not marketing the product right. Blame sales for losing customers. Blame management for not doing their jobs right. Just don't blame the people who keep on running those computers for you so you can get your jobs done.
They are trying to create the Easter Bunny!
:)
This is a bad thing? I like getting chocolate rabbits and candy eggs for Easter, its that plastic grass in the baskets that I cannot stand.
16 bits cannot compare to the 32 and 64 bit consoles already out there. Also the game carts don't hold more than 64K, and this is how games are to be delivered? Can't even run Doom 1.0 on a 64K cart, so what kinds of games are they going to have for this system?
Wake me up when they get the IDE module for CD-ROM, DVD, and hard drive interfaces. Maybe then you can load some real modern games on it?
16 bit CPU is limited, can't even do a Playstation emulation and you know that there are many Playstation emulators out on the market for Windows, Linux etc.
The only benefit I can really see with this console is an educational one. Learning how to write simple games for a limited environment.
I imagine it won't be long before someone writes a n XGameStation emulator for the various operating systems out there. Then this console box will be toast.
Now if someone else picked up where Indrema left off and build a Linux game console kit, that could be better. Use an AMD Duron at 1.0 Ghz, 256M of RAM, DVD-ROM drive, and a NVIDIA chipset with a decent sound chipset and you could be talking a serious XBox/PS2/Gamecube killer here.
I asked him if he had entered CMOS himself or if the computer had booted into it. He didn't answer me, just said he was in CMOS. Usually it detects an error and asks you to hit F1 or DEL to enter CMOS settings, etc. So I had him select Standard settings, not knowing what clock speed and voltage his CPU was as I didn't build his computer and the guy who did wasn't the guy he called when things went wrong. So he starts talking about different things for 15 minutes. I asked him if the settings took, and he said No, it still says Standard settings and didn't change the screen. I wondered if he hit the Enter key, he said he did, but still no change on the screen. I had him hit the enter key again, and he said it took that time. I then asked him to hit Enter on the hard drive setting, he talked about different things, and then said the computer was rebooting. I didn't tell him to reboot yet, and I was waiting to hear if he had the CMOS actually detect the hard drives. No answer from him on that. So I asked him again, and he said he did but now it says hard drive failure.
I got fustrated, this is my best friend after all, Automotive Expert, but not sure how to enter CMOS settings. So now tomorrow he is bringing his computer over to my house so I can properly look at it. I have no idea if he actualy hit the settings I told him to, or if he was doing something else. If he did do what I told him to, I couldn't tell from the phone call, and his hard drive controller or hard drives may be fried. If he didn't do what I told him to, and he just entered random numbers for the hard drive instead of auto detecting them, then I can see why he got the hard drive failure message.
I used to work at a help desk, I'll never work at a help desk again if I can help it!
With Open Source being so popular, people can write a program to act like a Classic program and even look like it, but be a totally differnet source code frm the original. Then port it to different platforms. So we get a Classic Rewrite.
Take for example Telengard for Windows a Windows re-write of the Classic C64 game. See how the game looked like and played on a C64, but on Windows instead.
We just need more people to re-write the classics to save them.
Well if they were smart, the arcade game makers would bundle MAME with some of their older ROMS on a CD-ROM and sell it for $30 - $40 USD as Arcade Classics or something. They would have to modify MAME to encrypt and decrypt the ROMs so someone wouldn't just copy them and upload them via a File Sharer to some friends.