The urban dictionary has this single definition for "w00t"- http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=w00 t
1. w00t An expression of joy and excitement. I just got an A on my test. w00t! Source: Metallion, Jul 20, 2002
And this alternate definition for the spelling "woot" - http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=woo t&r=f
1. woot Woot originated as a hacker term for root (or administrative) access to a computer. However, with the term as coincides with the gamer term, "w00t".
"w00t" was originally an trunicated expression common among players of Dungeons and Dragons tabletop role-playing game for "Wow, loot!" Thus the term passed into the net-culture where it thrived in video game communities and lost its original meaning and is used simply as a term of excitement. "I defeated the dark sorcerer! Woot!"
"woot! i r teh flagmastar!" (Think Tribes)
"Woot, I pwnzed this dude's boxen!' Source: Weatherlight, Apr 4, 2004 --------------------
I must say I like the second one better... But even with the oldest entry being from 2002; This jibes WAY more with the actual real life usage of the term. I recall using "w00t" as an expression of online gaming joy as far back as 1998. I've NEVER heard it defined as "we own the other team". And I've been playing CounterStrike for over SIX years. Especially since the term "own" only began seeing widespread use within the last 3-ish years.
W00t has been around much longer than that.
Many need Administrator priviledges to update (unless you've got money to spend on serious business grade AV).
No consumer antivirus on the market today NEEDS admin privs to update the virus definitions.
The same is true for anti-spyware definitions.
And you evidently missed one main point, since you validated it in your first sentence; "when the parents want to do something new..."
I specifically referred to an average older user needing internet, email and maybe some flash/java games. That's all they really want. And they STILL don't need XP Pro to do it.
I sell computers to these exact people. And our shop sets them up exactly as I described. And when we check with them or they come in 6-12 months later, they're still happily doing what they wanted with NO problems.
OBVIOUSLY if they start using it for other things, the situation changes.
Uhhh... try that lovely default Search box in the upper right corner. The one that defaults to that lovely blue G for GOOGLE...
Unless it's different on Macs (which i assume you're using since you mention safari), that search box has been in every version of Firefox, and it always defaults to Google.
If the kid set it up correctly in the first place, this should never need happen.
Firewall program. Firefox with common plugins installed (flash, java, etc). Auto-updating antivirus with scheduled scan. Anti-spyware with a realtime scanner. Windows updates set to auto-install.
Unless they decide they want to start photochopping pics of the grandkids, then you shouldn't have to touch this box more than once or twice a year.
And do you really have to fight with them over the mouse in VNC when they know you're trying to help them?? If you do, then you have more problems than the computer.
Which is what the majority of traffic in any given city is anyway.
Congestion would be reduced because it's easier to maneuver a motorcycle than a car. Pollution would be drastically reduced (once adoption rate is high enough). Parking would be WAY easier, since a cycle takes like 1/3 or less the space of a car.
I believe this is how the "most famous hacker ever" (mitnick) got into most of the systems. It's been proved time and time again that it is so much easier to just walk up and ask for a password than to try and crack it.
1024-bit encryption doesn't prevent a helpful secretary with her password on a post-it note stuck to the front of her monitor.
Firefox 1.0.1 (Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050225 Firefox/1.0.1) also FAILS all of the same tests that the parent poster lists..
So I guess Firefox is not compliant either... Perhaps the mozilla coders should take the Acid test themselves...
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The Welcome to the Machine Award: Also to Green Day. Frontman Billie Joe Armstrong, to his credit, long ago admitted the band stopped being punk the day it signed with a major label. But releasing an actual concept album, " American Idiot," and seeing it lauded by the music establishment as best rock album, has got to be the most un-punk move in the history of punk. Then they topped it all off with Grammy acceptance speeches that were sweet, mature and genuinely appreciative. It was all so vehemently un-punk it was almost... punk.
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The urban dictionary has this single definition for "w00t"- http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=w0
1. w00t
An expression of joy and excitement.
I just got an A on my test. w00t!
Source: Metallion, Jul 20, 2002
And this alternate definition for the spelling "woot" - http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=wo
1. woot
Woot originated as a hacker term for root (or administrative) access to a computer. However, with the term as coincides with the gamer term, "w00t".
"w00t" was originally an trunicated expression common among players of Dungeons and Dragons tabletop role-playing game for "Wow, loot!" Thus the term passed into the net-culture where it thrived in video game communities and lost its original meaning and is used simply as a term of excitement.
"I defeated the dark sorcerer! Woot!"
"woot! i r teh flagmastar!" (Think Tribes)
"Woot, I pwnzed this dude's boxen!'
Source: Weatherlight, Apr 4, 2004
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I must say I like the second one better... But even with the oldest entry being from 2002; This jibes WAY more with the actual real life usage of the term. I recall using "w00t" as an expression of online gaming joy as far back as 1998.
I've NEVER heard it defined as "we own the other team". And I've been playing CounterStrike for over SIX years. Especially since the term "own" only began seeing widespread use within the last 3-ish years.
W00t has been around much longer than that.
WTF "Wobble"????
His name is wEEble - http://www.weebl.jolt.co.uk/
Is this wobble thing something they had to change to put them on Brit TV?
> Auto-updating antivirus with scheduled scan.
Many need Administrator priviledges to update (unless you've got money to spend on serious business grade AV).
No consumer antivirus on the market today NEEDS admin privs to update the virus definitions.
The same is true for anti-spyware definitions.
And you evidently missed one main point, since you validated it in your first sentence; "when the parents want to do something new..."
I specifically referred to an average older user needing internet, email and maybe some flash/java games. That's all they really want. And they STILL don't need XP Pro to do it.
I sell computers to these exact people. And our shop sets them up exactly as I described. And when we check with them or they come in 6-12 months later, they're still happily doing what they wanted with NO problems.
OBVIOUSLY if they start using it for other things, the situation changes.
Uhhh... try that lovely default Search box in the upper right corner. The one that defaults to that lovely blue G for GOOGLE...
Unless it's different on Macs (which i assume you're using since you mention safari), that search box has been in every version of Firefox, and it always defaults to Google.
If the kid set it up correctly in the first place, this should never need happen.
Firewall program.
Firefox with common plugins installed (flash, java, etc).
Auto-updating antivirus with scheduled scan.
Anti-spyware with a realtime scanner.
Windows updates set to auto-install.
Unless they decide they want to start photochopping pics of the grandkids, then you shouldn't have to touch this box more than once or twice a year.
And do you really have to fight with them over the mouse in VNC when they know you're trying to help them?? If you do, then you have more problems than the computer.
Which is what the majority of traffic in any given city is anyway.
Congestion would be reduced because it's easier to maneuver a motorcycle than a car.
Pollution would be drastically reduced (once adoption rate is high enough).
Parking would be WAY easier, since a cycle takes like 1/3 or less the space of a car.
Maybe they should give away the Starter edition... and then charge gradually increasing prices for addons and upgrades...
Pssst! I got some nice OS here, kid...
Just say "NO!" to Windows!
Why do ma an pa Johnson need Pro?
They don't.
IIS and the added domain functionality are completely useless to them. All they want is internet and email. And maybe some yahoo games.
Ah. good point...
And they'll probably hold the door for you on your way out!
Most times you don't even need the candy bar...
Just carry around a bunch of computer parts and wander up and tell them you're the "computer guy."
They'll let you in, show you the server room, and get you a cup of coffee and a donut.
And even if you can't crack the server, you get a free snack! =P
Probably an IRS employee with mod points... ;)
I believe this is how the "most famous hacker ever" (mitnick) got into most of the systems.
It's been proved time and time again that it is so much easier to just walk up and ask for a password than to try and crack it.
1024-bit encryption doesn't prevent a helpful secretary with her password on a post-it note stuck to the front of her monitor.
"Some hesitated but got approval from their managers to cooperate."
Just goes to show that you don't promote based on brains.
but then again, it doesn't show too much brains on the part of the employees either. They cave as soon as a "higher up" says it's okay.
Firefox 1.0.1 (Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050225 Firefox/1.0.1) also FAILS all of the same tests that the parent poster lists..
So I guess Firefox is not compliant either...
Perhaps the mozilla coders should take the Acid test themselves...
[%] resolved [66.172.78.124] to (www.animalhackerz.com)
WTF is this? A site for underground genetic engineers? Training ground for young "Dr. Moreau's"?
"D00d! I totally haxz0red this cat together with this fish!!"
So if we currently have POTS with 3 lines + a fax line.. How would this incorporate into an asterisk@home box?
Would you get 3 of those FXO cards and install them in the CPU?? Then assign phone numbers to the cards through the software?
And can you use physical phones with this system? Or must it all be Softphones with headset/mics connected to each desktop PC?
OH MY GOD GEORGE LUCAS MUST BE STOPPED!!!
I thought this was obvious after episode 1...
(this text is here because the lameness filter is um.. lame.)
Where's the "+1, Yummy" mod when you need it.. ;)
Oh sorry.. I forgot that to right-wingers, changing your mind when you find out you are wrong is weakness...
But think of the children!!!!
Although in this case it seems the parents are actually thinking the right way... Against the trend of let-the-school-raise-the-child these days.
http://msgboard.snopes.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi
In particular-
has several games based on typing... Like Typer Shark- http://games.yahoo.com/games/downloads/tps.html
There are probably many others (PopCap or not) online that might be useful.
The answer is still the same;
You CANNOT use it in your existing system. You HAVE to buy new mobo even if it is the same socket.