I got this in my webmail inbox - And I managed to run it using WINE (!!) i got the message box telling my my outlook box was damaged (hahahaha I don't even use that program!) and I had to re-enter my details. And it kept popping up every few seconds or so, until I finally killed the wineserver process.
Of course, Linux is totally immune to this worm:)
I just tried it - You are right; Google came up with tons of stuff, while the msdn thing reallysucked eggs - It gave me a grand total of four results....
This is fairly old news. The Patch that MS released didn't do the job, so they had to release another one. Steve Gibson told them the original patch wouldn't fix the flaw completely. Just shows how they listened (not)
The patch is available here:
http://www.microsoft.com/security/security_bulleti ns/ms03-039.asp
What a complete load of tosh!!!
I have a pentium 166Mhz machine with 64Mb RAM and it runs windows 2000 just fine. Admittedly, the pentium is overclocked to 200Mhz though....)
Windows 2000 requires a minimum of 32Mb to run. it won't install on a machine with less than 32Mb RAM.
Hi, I share your hatred for this copy protection nonsense. You are correct; it is now a disincentive to buy the CD, and more of an incentive to download it illegally.
However, this "copy protection" is very easy to get round. Here's how:
1) Set up your wave recorder to accept input from the CD-ROM Drives' digital audio output.
(my wave recorder software came with my soundcard)
2) Put the CD in the Drive, press play, and hit the record button on the waverecorder.
3) When the entire CD has been recorded as a single *.wav file, use a wave editor to chop the file into the tracks, which you can then encode into mp3 format. (I've got a *.wav file editor program that came with my soundcard)
4) Make a copy of the CD, and send it in to the record comany, with an anonymous note telling them that their copy protection doesn't work!!:o)
I agree. I bought an Epson stylus C40UX last year for £59. The replacement cartidges cost about £25. The first time it ran out of ink, I took out the colour cartidge, had a look at the type (so I could buy a new one), then replaced it. The printer software reported that the ink cartidge was full!! It printed out quite a few pages after that, before it ran out (!!)
Since refill kits cost less than half the prices of a single cartidge,(Morrisons were doing a 2 for one colour refill special for £11.99 a few months back) and I can refill a cartridge about 3 times with them, the printer companies can kiss my arse, because I'll NEVER buy a new cartridge ever:0)
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My mobile phone is 3 years old. It's only the second mobile I have ever had (I lost the first one). It's a very basic phone. It's compact, I can send the odd text with it, it has no games, no polyphonic ring tones, none of that utter rubbish. It's a basic mobile phone and it works just fine.
3G? Pffft!!! Who wants it anyway? Certainly not me!:)
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I wish they'd sort out the Composer side of things, it's totally bug ridden, and it needs some serious updating.
They are really little, silly, dumb bugs, that totally wind me up, and these are by no means consistent bugs; sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. here they are, and they are by no means the full list:
Writing some HTML/javascript, then hitting to save button, only to find it hasn't worked - because it didn't save it!!!
Copy and pasting. Sometimes that doesn't work at all!!
If you have a large space in between text paragraphs, not being able to delete the spaces
Not being able to change the font sizes
The table editing form has taken to "jumping" whenever I select an option, or save/cancel the edits
OK I know that Mozilla is primarily a browser, and composer is essentially a bolt on extra, but it's handy for knocking together some web pages quickly and being able to preview the results. at the minute i'm having to use something like notepad to make sure the code is saved and those spaces are deleted. Sometimes I'm even forced to open up frontpage (shiver!) just to get that pesky table deleted or resized...yes I know I can look at the code, but if you've got several tables nestled inside each other, or a 4 column, 20 row table, visually it's quicker...
Does anyone else have similar hassles with composer?
The Mozilla team are doing a great job, Mozilla is by far (in my opinion) the best browser on the block, but if any of the Mozilla team are reading this, can you please sort out composer?
Not exactly - what about that spaceprobe to Mars the US launched. I Forget the real details, but it turned out that NASA lost contact with it because one group of contractors used imperial measurements, while the other used metric...
I recently came across one of these so-called "copy protected" CD's (or, rather, a crippled CD). They will play in both macintosh and Windows computers (I never got around to trying it in my linux box - yet), but you can't rip them. BUT you can get round it so laughably easily, by simply recording the digital output from the CD using an ordinary wave recorder, duh.
No, no, no; instead of just boycotting the CD's, buy them, copy them, and send the copy right back to the record company, along with a cheeky, sarcastic letter!!!:)
Once the record comanies start receiving truckloads of copies of their so-called "copy-protected" CD's through the post, they'll soon wise up & realise that it's impossible to "copy-protoect" a CD;)
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So, when are you going to return the statue of liberty? after all, it was a gift from FRANCE:)
I thought that DVD's used blue light already? If they use red light, like ordinary CD Players, how can you get 4.7Gb on a disc? does it use a red laser with a smaller wavelength than an "ordinary" red laser? or does a DVD have more than one layer?
And what happened to those Flourescent Multilayer Discs (FMD's) that supposedly had 7 or so layers on a disc on which to store data? I heard they had a potential to store 120Gb on each disk!
HAHAHAHAHA! LOL!
I'm a graduate student at Leeds, and it we have the crappiest, shittest, most disjointed, un unified bollocksy IT system I have ever seen AHAHAHAHAHA! OH, LOOOL! that article was soooo funny, it has made my day!!!
I have 3 separate home areas, that don't speak to each other:
1)Windows earth science (w2K server)
2)Linux earth science (redhat server)
3)General university home area in library (novell server)
if i have my linux fortran program, i can't get to it if i boot into windows. If i go into the library to print off that vital essay, i have to put it onto disk & go all the way over there, because i have a different home area, that i can't get to...
If ever there was a demo on how to NOT run a computer network, Leeds is a shining example. funny that M$ is going there...!!
My fiance is at durham, where they have a unified file system: Four UNIX servers running SAMBA, that serve windows, UNIX and Linux machines. She has the same home area, no matter where she is, or what machine she's using; all her files are right there, in one place.....i'm so goddamn jealous, it works so well!!
There's a book by David Berlinsky, called "A Tour of the Calculus, The Philosophy of Mathematics"
It's the best damn book on calculus I ever read!
(Get it! ISBN # 0 434 09844 2) here's the kicker - it's not a text book; it's a novel - he teaches you calculus, but it's also a history lesson, a story of the people who developed the calculus. He takes you back to europe in the 1700's...
Also, he actually explains terms like functions - and what a function is - in plain english. I went through high school not actually knowing what a function was, because nobody bothered explaining what it was! I could vaguely see what it did, but not understanding what it was - big difference.
I wish mathematics was taught in this style more, using creative language, and plain english. maybe the purists will see this as unecessary fluff, but if you can't get through to your audience, and get them to understand and enjoy the subject then you're totally wasting your time - pack up and go home. Math is actually a surprisingly simple subject; moreover, it's FUN, too! It's a real pity it isn't taught in plain simple terms:(
Canada join the EU, eh? That would be interesting! Canada would have to leave NAFTA first though. I don't know if the majority of Canadians like NAFTA or not, so I don't know if that would be a good or a bad thing.
Hmm, there are currently about 350 million EU citizens spread across 15 EU countries. There are another 10 countries or so set to join within the next ten years, which would bring to total up to about 500 million...so Canada would have access to an import/export tax free market of 500 million souls, plus Canadians would be able to live and work in any EU country without restriction. So what's keeping you, lol!!
Don't you people have that NAFTA thing? Doesn't that mean you're free to find work and travel in another NAFTA country? If not, you're getting shafted! A free market means exactly that - the free movement of goods, services, products, LABOUR and PEOPLE.
I can buy say, a car in another EU country, (where it may be cheaper and bring it home without paying import tax.
Here in the EU, with the single market, we can live and work in any other EU country without the need for work permits - I can move over to Italy if I wanted and get a job there..I can even claim unemployment benefits in another EU country, as well as receiving free healthcare.
There's also the European Economic Area (EEA) countries, such as Iceland and Norway, that aren't members of the EU, where we can work. A friend of mine has been in Norway now for nearly two years - he didn't need a work permit/visa.
Ah, thanks for explaining that, now I see:)
AND TO WHO EVER MODDED ME AS FLAIMBAIT - I was only asking a question! Do you know what it is to be a moderator? I doubt it.
The reason we don't usually get to see the original meteor is simply because it has been vapourised in the intense heat caused by impact;) If you think about it, these things may be travelling at about 150 000km/h, and all that kinetic energy needs to go somewhere, so it gets transferred to heat energy - here's an experiment you can perform in your garage - strike a metal plate with a sledgehammer several times (wear ear protection!) not only might you see sparks fly, but feel the plate and hammer afterwards - it will be hot.
Meteorites usually contain high concentrations of Platinum Group Elements (PGE's) e.g. rhodium, palladium, and platinum. They also contain relatively high concentrations of irridium relative to earth because these bodies haven't had the chance to chemically differentiate them through the forces of gravity. Moreover, they have different isotope ratio's when compared with terrestial PGE's - this is how you know if it's terrestrial or not!
Now, when the impact event occurs, the atoms don't get destroyed, they get transferred to the target material. (you can vapourise the impactor, sure, but you can't destroy the atoms)
So you can look for these signatures geochemically, and in some cases you can even tell what type of meteorite hit the earth (stoney, iron or carbonaceous chondrite)
Reference: McDonald, I (2002): Clearwater East impact structure: A re-interpretation of the projectile type using new platinum-group element data from meteorites, Meteoritics and Planetary Science, vol.37 459-464
Well, at least the Canadians can get it together to give universal healthcare to ALL of their citizens nad not waste so much of it on bombs and the military.
(America's military budget is $400 thousand million per year - that's a disgrace)
During my visits to america, I was struck by the number of poor, homeless people I saw. For such a rich powerful country, this was a surprise.
I lived in canada for a while, and let me say that this is the BEST place ever. I've been both sides of the border, and I know where I'd rather live:)
Mod me down, call me a troll, whatever, I don't care, but those 28 million who live on your northern border will know what I mean when I say that Canada is a BRILLIANT place:)
GO CANADA!!!
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I got this in my webmail inbox - And I managed to run it using WINE (!!) i got the message box telling my my outlook box was damaged (hahahaha I don't even use that program!) and I had to re-enter my details. And it kept popping up every few seconds or so, until I finally killed the wineserver process. Of course, Linux is totally immune to this worm :)
I remember seeing a MS Blue Screen Of Death on an ATM in Peru a few years back...never seen a Spanish BSOD before!
The patch is available here:i ns/ms03-039.asp
http://www.microsoft.com/security/security_bullet
Patch those tea strainers now!!
...Does the phone have Ctrl Alt Del Keys? Think it would be mandatory for a MS phone!
What moron modded this as redundant? This was informative!
Windows 2000 requires a minimum of 32Mb to run. it won't install on a machine with less than 32Mb RAM.
1) Set up your wave recorder to accept input from the CD-ROM Drives' digital audio output. (my wave recorder software came with my soundcard)
2) Put the CD in the Drive, press play, and hit the record button on the waverecorder.
3) When the entire CD has been recorded as a single *.wav file, use a wave editor to chop the file into the tracks, which you can then encode into mp3 format. (I've got a *.wav file editor program that came with my soundcard)
4) Make a copy of the CD, and send it in to the record comany, with an anonymous note telling them that their copy protection doesn't work!! :o)
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Since refill kits cost less than half the prices of a single cartidge,(Morrisons were doing a 2 for one colour refill special for £11.99 a few months back) and I can refill a cartridge about 3 times with them, the printer companies can kiss my arse, because I'll NEVER buy a new cartridge ever :0)
3G? Pffft!!! Who wants it anyway? Certainly not me! :)
Writing some HTML/javascript, then hitting to save button, only to find it hasn't worked - because it didn't save it!!!
Copy and pasting. Sometimes that doesn't work at all!!
If you have a large space in between text paragraphs, not being able to delete the spaces
Not being able to change the font sizes
The table editing form has taken to "jumping" whenever I select an option, or save/cancel the edits
OK I know that Mozilla is primarily a browser, and composer is essentially a bolt on extra, but it's handy for knocking together some web pages quickly and being able to preview the results. at the minute i'm having to use something like notepad to make sure the code is saved and those spaces are deleted. Sometimes I'm even forced to open up frontpage (shiver!) just to get that pesky table deleted or resized...yes I know I can look at the code, but if you've got several tables nestled inside each other, or a 4 column, 20 row table, visually it's quicker...
Does anyone else have similar hassles with composer? The Mozilla team are doing a great job, Mozilla is by far (in my opinion) the best browser on the block, but if any of the Mozilla team are reading this, can you please sort out composer?
Not exactly - what about that spaceprobe to Mars the US launched. I Forget the real details, but it turned out that NASA lost contact with it because one group of contractors used imperial measurements, while the other used metric...
No, no, no; instead of just boycotting the CD's, buy them, copy them, and send the copy right back to the record company, along with a cheeky, sarcastic letter!!! :)
Once the record comanies start receiving truckloads of copies of their so-called "copy-protected" CD's through the post, they'll soon wise up & realise that it's impossible to "copy-protoect" a CD ;)
So, when are you going to return the statue of liberty? after all, it was a gift from FRANCE :)
I once saw a military helicopter do a roll once, at an air show...quite a sight that was!!
Who could travel much faster than light.
He went out one day,
in a relative way,
and came back the previous night!
And what happened to those Flourescent Multilayer Discs (FMD's) that supposedly had 7 or so layers on a disc on which to store data? I heard they had a potential to store 120Gb on each disk!
I have 3 separate home areas, that don't speak to each other:
1)Windows earth science (w2K server)
2)Linux earth science (redhat server)
3)General university home area in library (novell server)
if i have my linux fortran program, i can't get to it if i boot into windows. If i go into the library to print off that vital essay, i have to put it onto disk & go all the way over there, because i have a different home area, that i can't get to...
If ever there was a demo on how to NOT run a computer network, Leeds is a shining example. funny that M$ is going there...!!
My fiance is at durham, where they have a unified file system: Four UNIX servers running SAMBA, that serve windows, UNIX and Linux machines. She has the same home area, no matter where she is, or what machine she's using; all her files are right there, in one place.....i'm so goddamn jealous, it works so well!!
Also, he actually explains terms like functions - and what a function is - in plain english. I went through high school not actually knowing what a function was, because nobody bothered explaining what it was! I could vaguely see what it did, but not understanding what it was - big difference. I wish mathematics was taught in this style more, using creative language, and plain english. maybe the purists will see this as unecessary fluff, but if you can't get through to your audience, and get them to understand and enjoy the subject then you're totally wasting your time - pack up and go home. Math is actually a surprisingly simple subject; moreover, it's FUN, too! It's a real pity it isn't taught in plain simple terms :(
Hmm, there are currently about 350 million EU citizens spread across 15 EU countries. There are another 10 countries or so set to join within the next ten years, which would bring to total up to about 500 million...so Canada would have access to an import/export tax free market of 500 million souls, plus Canadians would be able to live and work in any EU country without restriction. So what's keeping you, lol!!
The reason we don't usually get to see the original meteor is simply because it has been vapourised in the intense heat caused by impact ;) If you think about it, these things may be travelling at about 150 000km/h, and all that kinetic energy needs to go somewhere, so it gets transferred to heat energy - here's an experiment you can perform in your garage - strike a metal plate with a sledgehammer several times (wear ear protection!) not only might you see sparks fly, but feel the plate and hammer afterwards - it will be hot.
Meteorites usually contain high concentrations of Platinum Group Elements (PGE's) e.g. rhodium, palladium, and platinum. They also contain relatively high concentrations of irridium relative to earth because these bodies haven't had the chance to chemically differentiate them through the forces of gravity. Moreover, they have different isotope ratio's when compared with terrestial PGE's - this is how you know if it's terrestrial or not!
Now, when the impact event occurs, the atoms don't get destroyed, they get transferred to the target material. (you can vapourise the impactor, sure, but you can't destroy the atoms)
So you can look for these signatures geochemically, and in some cases you can even tell what type of meteorite hit the earth (stoney, iron or carbonaceous chondrite)
Reference: McDonald, I (2002): Clearwater East impact structure: A re-interpretation of the projectile type using new platinum-group element data from meteorites, Meteoritics and Planetary Science, vol.37 459-464
Well, at least the Canadians can get it together to give universal healthcare to ALL of their citizens nad not waste so much of it on bombs and the military. (America's military budget is $400 thousand million per year - that's a disgrace) During my visits to america, I was struck by the number of poor, homeless people I saw. For such a rich powerful country, this was a surprise. I lived in canada for a while, and let me say that this is the BEST place ever. I've been both sides of the border, and I know where I'd rather live :)
Mod me down, call me a troll, whatever, I don't care, but those 28 million who live on your northern border will know what I mean when I say that Canada is a BRILLIANT place :)
GO CANADA!!!