Perhaps the Conficker author figured the best time to strike would be on April fool's since nobody could tell the real stories from the prank ones. Yep, the results of the virus are stealthed further by a stupid holiday.
9 years ago, a great virus strike date would have been on Y2K, provided the assumption the infected computers wouldn't fail naturally from a Y2K flaw. "nah it's not a virus infection, it's just y2k all sorts of weird stuff is going on."
Just like how Christmas is a great time to rob banks dressed like Santa Claus. Plenty of decoys running around.
They do hock wares on flights. Many flights I've been on, flight attendants come by with carts selling overpriced fragrances, etc for duty-free shopping(IIRC). I always thought it was a huge waste of space & weight on a flight. I don't feel like shopping for perfumes, etc when I'm in the air. But then again, this is the same industry that has 2000 "no smoking" lighted signs, despite not being able to smoke on flights for some time, and getting reminded over the PA.
I'd rather see that energy for those no-smoking signs be used for laptop power outlets for coach.
I thought it was funny, one of the newscasters on 60 minutes said she just got "owned". It's funny since this is the same show Andy "I'm out of touch with reality" Rooney is on.
FYI the 2 minute delays was the "slow down cowboy" period for posting a successive message.
And it was easily the stupidest feature of the slashcode ever incorporated. For legit users(ie non-trolls) it punished fast readers & fast typists. I utterly despised that feature. It's like a reverse dead man switch(which dead man switches are all over the place on the web).
I don't remember having to sign a contract, nor pay a monthly fee to use a universal remote,or better yet a "learning" remote. Those lists of manufacturers + models for your TV set/stereo/etc always seem to list all the models in the world..except the one you bought. Somehow I got lucky with my Advent home entertainment center, where I can use my Comcast remote to move up/down the volume. Felt a small sense of accomplishment since now I can now control everything with that remote, save for the video game consoles + VCR.
When I did tech support at an ISP, if we found out a user had a virus infection, we had to basically stop everything and tell them to "seek professional help". Worded wrongly, it sounds like we were telling the customer they needed to go to the funny farm. Sadly, some of them did need to.
Netbooks are small on the x and y axis. The Air is small on the z axis. Many of these netbooks are made by regular plain-jane PC makers, and are able to get the price down. Apple is not plain-jame, and the Air sells for quite a bit more.
To me, the Air is just a laptop that happens to be the thinnest. Just not on the wallet.
I think I might know why: They(99% of the time) can handle the bandwidth. Any link aggregator site like fark, or even here posts a video, the website can't handle it after an hour. YouTube always rises to the video sharing occasion. YouTube now becomes a really big TV channel with lots of programs.
Got a Fuppes + 360 question. How do you solve the problem of the MP3s randomly skipping to the next track, before the track is over? I'm otherwise having no problems running it
There is some truth to this. I know of plenty of bands that didn't have much money & they had to rely on their own creativity(lyrics, etc) without any extra dough from the record company. The result is their best music. once they get popular, the record company throws horn sections, a popular producer, etc, and it sounds bland and over-produced. ANY new wave band that gets a horn section that never had one before is a guaranteed failure. Devo's "Oh No! It's Devo!" screamed "we're trying to finish out our contract obligations" and was easily their worst.
HP is yet another one of those companies that insists on a background process to update printer drivers, etc. I realized one of the last updates fixed a security flaw. I think my next move will be to uninstall the updater altogether, and thus not have to worry about security holes in a freakin' updater.
It used to be every software house insisted on a systray icon, even though it didn't need it. Now the latest trend are background "updater" processes, even for stuff that doesn't need it(Adobe reader, etc).
Typically there's no indicators of it being installed, and trying to uninstall it is a mystery.
This needs to change. Identify it as malware or something. Anything.
(8.10 is full of bugs and unusable) But,but,but I thought Linux was better than Windows where it was usable & not full of bugs! So any version of Windows gets raked over the coals on suspicions of bugs, etc, but oh hey, just go back a minor version of Ubuntu.
Darn, I was hoping it would be like that episode of The Simpsons when Itchy & Scratchy got re-tooled, and all these kids go outside to play. Some are painting fences, others do that "push the hoop with the stick" old-timey thing.
Knowing it's 2009, kids will go "meh" and just go visit a website.
I can have a wall of these LEDs randomly blinking, then my computer room looks like some "secret headquarters" with big monoliths of useless lights, just like in science fiction films of yesteryear. Now only if I could get that sound loop of the "computer beeping" stock audio it would be complete. Maybe a tractor feed printer on a stand, aww yeah.
I like to watch gameplay videos. However, I don't like it when the original audio to the game is gone, in favor of some dumb death metal song. It's almost a bit of an insult to those who engineered the audio for the game.
It would be good if statistics like this could be used to start grooming the next generation of contributors to these projects. Just because they're n00bs (and not necessarily programmers) doesn't mean they can't be useful in reporting bugs, testing new features, amending documentation, suggesting UI improvements and so on.
This sounds like some sort of class system...for an operating system. It sounds like Linux is just for develeper for developers, for the benefit of developers working with other developers. Ordinary users? Nah, we don't need 'em!
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Perhaps the Conficker author figured the best time to strike would be on April fool's since nobody could tell the real stories from the prank ones. Yep, the results of the virus are stealthed further by a stupid holiday.
9 years ago, a great virus strike date would have been on Y2K, provided the assumption the infected computers wouldn't fail naturally from a Y2K flaw. "nah it's not a virus infection, it's just y2k all sorts of weird stuff is going on."
Just like how Christmas is a great time to rob banks dressed like Santa Claus. Plenty of decoys running around.
They do hock wares on flights. Many flights I've been on, flight attendants come by with carts selling overpriced fragrances, etc for duty-free shopping(IIRC). I always thought it was a huge waste of space & weight on a flight. I don't feel like shopping for perfumes, etc when I'm in the air. But then again, this is the same industry that has 2000 "no smoking" lighted signs, despite not being able to smoke on flights for some time, and getting reminded over the PA.
I'd rather see that energy for those no-smoking signs be used for laptop power outlets for coach.
I see a new feature here. Graphical text adventures in the browser with almost no overhead.
I thought it was funny, one of the newscasters on 60 minutes said she just got "owned". It's funny since this is the same show Andy "I'm out of touch with reality" Rooney is on.
FYI the 2 minute delays was the "slow down cowboy" period for posting a successive message.
And it was easily the stupidest feature of the slashcode ever incorporated. For legit users(ie non-trolls) it punished fast readers & fast typists. I utterly despised that feature. It's like a reverse dead man switch(which dead man switches are all over the place on the web).
I don't remember having to sign a contract, nor pay a monthly fee to use a universal remote,or better yet a "learning" remote. Those lists of manufacturers + models for your TV set/stereo/etc always seem to list all the models in the world..except the one you bought. Somehow I got lucky with my Advent home entertainment center, where I can use my Comcast remote to move up/down the volume. Felt a small sense of accomplishment since now I can now control everything with that remote, save for the video game consoles + VCR.
Because you have to start somewhere. If all businesses required a pre-requisite years of experience, how could anybody start?
How is some disillusioned kid thinking D&D is real any different than thinking someone can be crucified, rise from the dead & turn water into wine?
When I did tech support at an ISP, if we found out a user had a virus infection, we had to basically stop everything and tell them to "seek professional help". Worded wrongly, it sounds like we were telling the customer they needed to go to the funny farm. Sadly, some of them did need to.
Does Ubuntu still come with a Palm sync tool I have zero use for? I remember that came default in I think 8.04.
Netbooks are small on the x and y axis. The Air is small on the z axis. Many of these netbooks are made by regular plain-jane PC makers, and are able to get the price down. Apple is not plain-jame, and the Air sells for quite a bit more.
To me, the Air is just a laptop that happens to be the thinnest. Just not on the wallet.
What about everyone that has a character on World of Warcraft?
I think I might know why: They(99% of the time) can handle the bandwidth. Any link aggregator site like fark, or even here posts a video, the website can't handle it after an hour. YouTube always rises to the video sharing occasion. YouTube now becomes a really big TV channel with lots of programs.
Got a Fuppes + 360 question. How do you solve the problem of the MP3s randomly skipping to the next track, before the track is over? I'm otherwise having no problems running it
There is some truth to this. I know of plenty of bands that didn't have much money & they had to rely on their own creativity(lyrics, etc) without any extra dough from the record company. The result is their best music. once they get popular, the record company throws horn sections, a popular producer, etc, and it sounds bland and over-produced. ANY new wave band that gets a horn section that never had one before is a guaranteed failure. Devo's "Oh No! It's Devo!" screamed "we're trying to finish out our contract obligations" and was easily their worst.
HP is yet another one of those companies that insists on a background process to update printer drivers, etc. I realized one of the last updates fixed a security flaw. I think my next move will be to uninstall the updater altogether, and thus not have to worry about security holes in a freakin' updater.
It used to be every software house insisted on a systray icon, even though it didn't need it.
Now the latest trend are background "updater" processes, even for stuff that doesn't need it(Adobe reader, etc).
Typically there's no indicators of it being installed, and trying to uninstall it is a mystery.
This needs to change. Identify it as malware or something. Anything.
(8.10 is full of bugs and unusable)
But,but,but I thought Linux was better than Windows where it was usable & not full of bugs!
So any version of Windows gets raked over the coals on suspicions of bugs, etc, but oh hey, just go back a minor version of Ubuntu.
I'm reminded of how MST3K went whereas the show died, and was resurrected, and it changed so much, it wasn't entertaining anymore.
Darn, I was hoping it would be like that episode of The Simpsons when Itchy & Scratchy got re-tooled, and all these kids go outside to play. Some are painting fences, others do that "push the hoop with the stick" old-timey thing.
Knowing it's 2009, kids will go "meh" and just go visit a website.
I can have a wall of these LEDs randomly blinking, then my computer room looks like some "secret headquarters" with big monoliths of useless lights, just like in science fiction films of yesteryear. Now only if I could get that sound loop of the "computer beeping" stock audio it would be complete. Maybe a tractor feed printer on a stand, aww yeah.
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I like to watch gameplay videos. However, I don't like it when the original audio to the game is gone, in favor of some dumb death metal song. It's almost a bit of an insult to those who engineered the audio for the game.
I ask about an ASUS laptop. Guy never heard of it. Thinks I said "Jesus(pronounced hey-zeus) laptop".
It would be good if statistics like this could be used to start grooming the next generation of contributors to these projects. Just because they're n00bs (and not necessarily programmers) doesn't mean they can't be useful in reporting bugs, testing new features, amending documentation, suggesting UI improvements and so on.
This sounds like some sort of class system...for an operating system. It sounds like Linux is just for develeper for developers, for the benefit of developers working with other developers. Ordinary users? Nah, we don't need 'em!
Darn, here I was thinking about pondering "telnet planetfall.infocom.activision.com" & playing a peaceful game of Planetfall.