Which of those integrity checkers do you recommend for a shop that mostly uses the Windows OS? An extensive comparison says Samhain is the best.
The FAQsays Samhain works under Windows XP with Cygwin.
In Windows 7 there is a hidden, non-standard partition. I'm guessing that Samhain would not be able to check that partition. Does the design of Windows 7 prevent thorough integrity checking? Microsoft makes more money if Windows is vulnerable to malware. See the New York Times article Corrupted PC's Find New Home in the Dumpster.
The CEO of Microsoft apparently has little technical knowledge and no interest in learning. Do you see any evidence that someone like that can run a technology company successfully?
Will Skype become the Zune of VOIP? Will Skype begin having serious problems like Hotmail?
Will Windows 8, due next year, be another grab for money, like Windows Vista and Windows ME?
That raises a bigger question: What has happened to the management of Adobe? There are many, many examples of bad management there, in my opinion. It seems that Adobe needs a new CEO.
There are new versions that don't fix old bugs and insufficiencies, but cost a lot. Sometimes when you buy a CD of Creative Suite, you get software on the CD that is many months old, and requires downloading the newest version.
No need to worry about testicular cancer. Very little power is used when the phone is in standby. Note that the battery charge lasts a long time if you are not talking on the phone. The receiver is working, but the transmitter has a very low transmission rate.
Any transmitted energy from a cell phone in a pants pocket would need to travel through a leg to get to testicles.
Danger -- The Sun is a big electromagnetic radiation transmitter in the sky. Walking from the shade into the sun will heat your body much more than the energy of a cell phone transmitting during a call.
Standing in the sun absorbing high-energy ultraviolet radiation is truly damaging; severe exposure can cause sores and even eventually skin cancer. The photons of ultraviolet light are more than a million times more energetic than cell phone radiation, and the sun emits far, far more energy than a cell phone.
The entire earth receives 1,218,000,000,000,000 Watts from the Sun. The earth receives more total solar energy from the Sun in one hour than is generated and used by humans in an entire year. The average energy received over the entire earth is about 250 Watts per square meter over a 24 hour day, ignoring clouds.
The sun emits energy in the same wavelengths as cell phones. The only difference between the sun's energy and cell phone emissions is that the cell phone energy is at one specific frequency, and the sun emits energy at all frequencies. GSM cell phones use frequency bands at 850, 900, 1800, and 1900 MegaHertz. GSM is the most popular kind of cell phone transmitter design.
But no one has shown any frequency-specific interaction, and the physics is quite clear that there cannot be any. High energy electromagnetic waves definitely can have a strong effect on chemical bonds, but not low energy waves. The energy emitted by cell phones is perhaps 1/10,000 or 1/100,000 of the energy needed.
I haven't yet calculated how much energy is received from the Sun at those frequencies. However, there is no way for the energy from cell phones to be resonant in the body; the wavelength of cell phone radiation is too long. So the cell phone energy just heats the body, as does the Sun's energy. Without resonance, there is insignificant coupling to specific chemical processes.
Instant fame There are many, many very well-educated people in the world who would love to discover a new way that electromagnetic energy interacts with matter. Such a discovery would make any physicist or chemist instantly famous, and would earn him or her a Nobel Prize. The motivation to make such a discovery is enormous for people working in those fields.
The fact that no such discovery of a new kind of interaction has been made indicates at least that it is not easy. Another indication is that apparently no one has even proposed a mechanism for low-energy long-wavelength electromagnetic radiation to have an effect on chemistry.
It's not as though it hasn't occurred to anyone to do research.
People may say that there may be some subtle effect that we have not yet discovered. And there may be. However, those comments often give the impression that they think that the discovery of a new subtle interaction would have a subtle effect on our understanding of the world. That isn't true. In fact, the discovery of a new kind of interaction between electromagnetic radiation and matter would create a revolution in Physics, in areas we think we know well, in areas where our understanding has been stable for many decades. For example, Planck's constant is known with an uncertainty of only 89 parts per billion.
That makes a new discovery seem less likely.
Einstein's discovery of relativity revolutionized our understanding o
The books said an enormous amount about how people thought and lived in the 1600s. History books are only summaries. The old books are actually what people wrote.
Could Amazon, by making the statement that e-books are selling better than paper books, be using marketing dishonesty to promote e-books?
Or, is Amazon's statement an indication that Amazon is no longer the preferred place to buy paper books? Since Amazon started, there have been many, many other bookstores that have started to sell online.
A paper book last forever. An e-book lasts until an electronic reader fails, and readers that use that format are no longer available. A paper book can be read by anyone. An e-book can be read only by people who have the kind of reader for which the book is meant.
In the Oxford University library in England, I found books in the old books room that were published in the 1600s. The persistence of paper books is an enormous benefit to all humankind.
Thanks for the info. Isn't Perl dying rapidly?
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Thanks for the excellent insight.
However, isn't Perl dying rapidly? Isn't Python the new Perl?
Remember all the jokes about Perl being a write-only language? The libraries are wonderful, but the language is discouraging.
Hitler never once released unfinished, buggy software to increase his income. I'm not saying he was a good guy, just saying there were some nasty, destructive things he didn't do.
"... it's true that the type of Islam practiced in Saudi Arabia is *extremely* conservative and anti-female..."
It isn't Islam. It's culture. Sometimes people wrap cultural activities in a religious coating.
Some facts:
In approximately the year 595, using the U.S. method of dates, Khadijah bint Khuwaylid bint Khuwaylid (pronounced Ha-dee'-jah), a very successful owner and manager of an international trading business, asked a younger, honest, reliable, and trustworthy trader named Mohammed to marry her. They married and both were extremely happy in their marriage, according to all that we know.
Mohammed is now called the Prophet Mohammed, the founder of Islam.
Understanding that, it is difficult to see Mohammed as someone interested in having an unequal relationship with women. The inequality comes from the culture that existed before and after Mohammed.
I have unusual experience in that I have spent many hours alone with Muslim women, teaching them English here in the U.S. so that they could live with husbands here who are U.S. citizens. There are huge problems in some of the cultures that have embraced Islam, but those cultures cannot sensibly be called "anti-female", as the women will loudly tell you, if you ask them when you are alone with them.
About U.S. President Barack Obama: He did an enormous amount for fundamental peace in the U.S. just by being a credible presidential candidate. That, I'm guessing, is why he was voted to receive the Nobel Peace Prize.
Slashdot Mirror
Me too. I would also like an invitation.
I'm guessing that the Apple hardware is equally well counterfeited.
"In cold weather... white is the wrong color. Black is the right color."
Not correct. White absorbs less and white radiates less. White is the correct color in both summer and winter.
MOD PARENT UP!!
I'm interested.
Which of those integrity checkers do you recommend for a shop that mostly uses the Windows OS? An extensive comparison says Samhain is the best.
The FAQsays Samhain works under Windows XP with Cygwin.
In Windows 7 there is a hidden, non-standard partition. I'm guessing that Samhain would not be able to check that partition. Does the design of Windows 7 prevent thorough integrity checking? Microsoft makes more money if Windows is vulnerable to malware. See the New York Times article Corrupted PC's Find New Home in the Dumpster.
Apparently little has changed on the Zfone web site since 2007. The download has been unavailable since 29 January 2011.
Anyone have a link to a download?
Perhaps a year before Microsoft killed FoxPro, a Microsoft tech support person told me FoxPro had 1.5 million users.
FoxPro was popular before Microsoft bought it. Now its dead.
The CEO of Microsoft apparently has little technical knowledge and no interest in learning. Do you see any evidence that someone like that can run a technology company successfully?
Will Skype become the Zune of VOIP? Will Skype begin having serious problems like Hotmail?
Will Windows 8, due next year, be another grab for money, like Windows Vista and Windows ME?
Is this what you mean?
Arachnophilia
That raises a bigger question: What has happened to the management of Adobe? There are many, many examples of bad management there, in my opinion. It seems that Adobe needs a new CEO.
There are new versions that don't fix old bugs and insufficiencies, but cost a lot. Sometimes when you buy a CD of Creative Suite, you get software on the CD that is many months old, and requires downloading the newest version.
Mozilla Foundation Top 20 Excuses for Not Fixing Firefox Bugs
Originally posted 2006-09-08.
Slashdot no longer numbers HTML numbered lists.
No need to worry about testicular cancer. Very little power is used when the phone is in standby. Note that the battery charge lasts a long time if you are not talking on the phone. The receiver is working, but the transmitter has a very low transmission rate.
Any transmitted energy from a cell phone in a pants pocket would need to travel through a leg to get to testicles.
Danger -- The Sun is a big electromagnetic radiation transmitter in the sky. Walking from the shade into the sun will heat your body much more than the energy of a cell phone transmitting during a call.
Standing in the sun absorbing high-energy ultraviolet radiation is truly damaging; severe exposure can cause sores and even eventually skin cancer. The photons of ultraviolet light are more than a million times more energetic than cell phone radiation, and the sun emits far, far more energy than a cell phone.
The entire earth receives 1,218,000,000,000,000 Watts from the Sun. The earth receives more total solar energy from the Sun in one hour than is generated and used by humans in an entire year. The average energy received over the entire earth is about 250 Watts per square meter over a 24 hour day, ignoring clouds.
The sun emits energy in the same wavelengths as cell phones. The only difference between the sun's energy and cell phone emissions is that the cell phone energy is at one specific frequency, and the sun emits energy at all frequencies. GSM cell phones use frequency bands at 850, 900, 1800, and 1900 MegaHertz. GSM is the most popular kind of cell phone transmitter design.
But no one has shown any frequency-specific interaction, and the physics is quite clear that there cannot be any. High energy electromagnetic waves definitely can have a strong effect on chemical bonds, but not low energy waves. The energy emitted by cell phones is perhaps 1/10,000 or 1/100,000 of the energy needed.
I haven't yet calculated how much energy is received from the Sun at those frequencies. However, there is no way for the energy from cell phones to be resonant in the body; the wavelength of cell phone radiation is too long. So the cell phone energy just heats the body, as does the Sun's energy. Without resonance, there is insignificant coupling to specific chemical processes.
Instant fame There are many, many very well-educated people in the world who would love to discover a new way that electromagnetic energy interacts with matter. Such a discovery would make any physicist or chemist instantly famous, and would earn him or her a Nobel Prize. The motivation to make such a discovery is enormous for people working in those fields.
The fact that no such discovery of a new kind of interaction has been made indicates at least that it is not easy. Another indication is that apparently no one has even proposed a mechanism for low-energy long-wavelength electromagnetic radiation to have an effect on chemistry.
It's not as though it hasn't occurred to anyone to do research.
People may say that there may be some subtle effect that we have not yet discovered. And there may be. However, those comments often give the impression that they think that the discovery of a new subtle interaction would have a subtle effect on our understanding of the world. That isn't true. In fact, the discovery of a new kind of interaction between electromagnetic radiation and matter would create a revolution in Physics, in areas we think we know well, in areas where our understanding has been stable for many decades. For example, Planck's constant is known with an uncertainty of only 89 parts per billion.
That makes a new discovery seem less likely.
Einstein's discovery of relativity revolutionized our understanding o
All vendors must be considered to be unreliable. Do you know even one that would not unilaterally change the terms of service?
Do you know even one that would not change radically if some top manager is replaced?
Do you know even one that would not give lame excuses if there are serious outages?
Do you know even one that would reliably inform you if the manner in which they serviced your account changed?
Many people who read a large number of books get them from a library.
Unfortunately, sometimes digital books are arranged that they cannot be loaned by libraries.
The books said an enormous amount about how people thought and lived in the 1600s. History books are only summaries. The old books are actually what people wrote.
Could Amazon, by making the statement that e-books are selling better than paper books, be using marketing dishonesty to promote e-books?
Or, is Amazon's statement an indication that Amazon is no longer the preferred place to buy paper books? Since Amazon started, there have been many, many other bookstores that have started to sell online.
A paper book last forever. An e-book lasts until an electronic reader fails, and readers that use that format are no longer available. A paper book can be read by anyone. An e-book can be read only by people who have the kind of reader for which the book is meant.
In the Oxford University library in England, I found books in the old books room that were published in the 1600s. The persistence of paper books is an enormous benefit to all humankind.
Thanks for the excellent insight.
However, isn't Perl dying rapidly? Isn't Python the new Perl?
Remember all the jokes about Perl being a write-only language? The libraries are wonderful, but the language is discouraging.
Why do you read Slashdot?
Because there is often useful information, even though there are a lot of uninteresting comments. Investors do the same.
"Because Slashdot is swarming with investors and stockholders"
That is definitely one way investors get information. They read the buzz on places like Slashdot.
Hitler never once released unfinished, buggy software to increase his income. I'm not saying he was a good guy, just saying there were some nasty, destructive things he didn't do.
"... it's true that the type of Islam practiced in Saudi Arabia is *extremely* conservative and anti-female..."
It isn't Islam. It's culture. Sometimes people wrap cultural activities in a religious coating.
Some facts:
In approximately the year 595, using the U.S. method of dates, Khadijah bint Khuwaylid bint Khuwaylid (pronounced Ha-dee'-jah), a very successful owner and manager of an international trading business, asked a younger, honest, reliable, and trustworthy trader named Mohammed to marry her. They married and both were extremely happy in their marriage, according to all that we know.
Mohammed is now called the Prophet Mohammed, the founder of Islam.
Understanding that, it is difficult to see Mohammed as someone interested in having an unequal relationship with women. The inequality comes from the culture that existed before and after Mohammed.
I have unusual experience in that I have spent many hours alone with Muslim women, teaching them English here in the U.S. so that they could live with husbands here who are U.S. citizens. There are huge problems in some of the cultures that have embraced Islam, but those cultures cannot sensibly be called "anti-female", as the women will loudly tell you, if you ask them when you are alone with them.
Others?
See the excellent video interview: WikiLeaks' Julian Assange.
About U.S. President Barack Obama: He did an enormous amount for fundamental peace in the U.S. just by being a credible presidential candidate. That, I'm guessing, is why he was voted to receive the Nobel Peace Prize.