While on that train of thoughts : if the rocket would hit the satellite on the bottom of the hydrazine tank and 'puncture' it, wouldn't that make the satellite shoot upwards like.. err.. a balloon on the loose ??
(99% kidding, but still, what if ?... )
As a side note : I find it amusing how everyone is saying the military is lying and how they just want to show off / test their anti-satellite capabilities. Come on guys, what's new ? Since when did anyone consider those organizations as fully open, honest, transparent entities ???
But that would only be useful when you're somehow "forced" to give your PIN isn't it (eg. when there's a gun to your head).
In the case of phishing you simply do not realize that you're giving away information to a fraud! You actually truly, veritably believe that you're doing something harmless, eg. paying for that book on Amazon (probably a bad example, but you get the drift). So why would you use the 'poisoned-PIN' in this situation ?
FYI : this reminds me of that urban legend where you were supposed to enter your PIN backwards to get the same effect (transaction works out OK but police is informed right away, etc...), amazing how many people believed that story... until I asked them what then would happen if your PIN read 1221. (yes, it *used* to be an old PIN number of mine, actually, it was my first ever... and no, that was 15 years ago and it's been changed plenty of times in the meantime and no, no use looking me up, I don't plan on using it again =)
I've bought quite a lot of stuff on eBay, both cheap (cables) and expensive (laptops) stuff and NEVER had a problem. I will agree that I'm rather careful selecting sellers/buyers. Eg. if the goods are in Hongkong, I don't even consider buying. If the sending cost is twice the price, never mind either. For fragile / bulky / expensive stuff I tend to bid only on objects where I'm allowed to fetch the goods myself.
The only 'bad luck' I had with this was that I bought some toners from someone. I let the seller know that I'll come fetch them in about 10 days because I have to be in that part of the country that day. Guy called me back one week later to inform me that he sold the goods to someone else because he had received a better offer via some other 2nd-hand website. I did not really lose anything on that one, but it did piss me off enough to give him bad feedback.
Overall I think eBay works fine, but you have to use some common sense. Although there's plenty of "you must agree" and "you are bound" etc stuff in the "eBay code of conduct", I doubt anyone has taken these to court yet (that is : in Belgium, I'm sure there are other countries that would love to sue just for the sake of it =).
First off, GPS is *NOT* free, sure you can tap the airwaves and have your receiver calculate your position without extra cost, but then again, you already paid for the receiver whose manufacturer already paid the 'gps-guys' _some_ amount in order to be able to use the patents / become 'approved' / etc... I'm sure it adds up.
Secondly, I remember from school that on the very first page of a receivers-system it said that the proper functioning could not be guaranteed as the US Army could do with the signals what it wanted, be it switching off (hiding/encrypting) the system entirely, or even passing false information. I've always considered it 'amazing' that so many people voluntary put their lives on something that has this on the first page. Then again, I guess that when you stay away far enough from 'trouble-zones', the thing will probably tell you "exactly" where you are.
To stay on topic : I think I'd feel a lot better when I'm in the middle of the Atlantic and both my GPS and Gallileo show the same location. When they start diverging seriously, I guess it's back to the sextant and Norie's tables, at least they haven't found a way to tweak the sun (yet).
"Oh My GOD!
Do you mean the USAF now has a working version of the Penis Mightier ?? They're sitting on a goldmine I tell you ! If it works I'll order a dozen !"
Well, if ships don't use it (or less in each case), they can use the remainder to power electricity-plants. That way less 'clean fuel' is needed, hence less crude oil needs to be refined, thus less residual shit will be produced..
in the/. tradition that probably means I now need to put : $$PROFIT$$
So what if Skype alters my Firewall settings : I 've strictly allowed it do do so ! (Tools Menu, Options, Advanced, Connection, [v] Allow Skype to modify my firewall settings)
Maybe the setting is on by default, not sure, but if it makes my Skype-experience any better, I don't see why I we have to 'create panic' like this... If you don't want any open ports, then don't install software that needs it in the first place, period.
In fact, that is exactly what *I* do... well, 2 days a week in each case.
And in all honesty I probably should add that the daycare is only 500m away from my house, so that means I do 500m * 2 (= up and down) * 2 (bring & fetch) = 4 km in the week for that particular purpose, but hey, it's a start, and yes it indeed is energizing!
(The other days of the week I need to drive to work and since it's on my route, I use the car to bring her...)
You only need to set up a specific environment once. Then, in order to do any testing, take a copy of the environment, run whatever is needed and when happy about it, simply revert back to the original 'image' again. Do next test etc... rinse & repeat. It also makes it easier to spread the exact identical environment to different machines/people in order to do tests in parallel and still be 'certain' that they all will be done identically. If needed you can even (temporarily or not) archive test results in order to work on them later again... eg, when someone needs to find out why things went wrong... Personally, I like it a lot, it saves me heaps of time and while the test team can happily continue testing on their testing machine(s), they sent me the *entire* environment to delve into... filters out a lot of : "but it works on my machine" frustrations.
Hehe, been there, not all that long ago even (she's 2 now), and yes, if you're lucky things improve dramatically. Maybe we got lucky, but 20:00 in bed and not a whisper until 10:00 the next morning is "normal" here...
(for the critics around here : yes, that's in weekends only... Now I come to think about it, I should have somehow put in my contract that the firstborn would replace the alarm or something; don't think the boss will agree on it now anymore =)
I'm not versed in this matter anyhow, so no technical backing here, but from real-world experience : * I always allow my cellphone to 'die' before I will put it on the charger. * My girlfriend tends to charge hers at the first sign of the thing running low
We bought (not the same model, I admit) our phones more or less at the same time, mine still holds 4 days on a charge easily, hers now HAS to be charged every second day or it will run out of juice. Although I'll admit there will be differences in both phone and battery, their spec's are alike (both Nokia) and when new they both lasted about a week.
ps: usage is more or less the same, with me doing slightly more calling...
I'm not saying that you're totally wrong, but in my (limited) experience, completely running down battery-operated stuff and allowing it to fill-up completely again seems to enhance the productivity and life-span of not only NiCad, but also Lithium Ion or those Metal Hydride (sp?)... although I don't have long-time experience with the latter yet.
As a side note : I bought a Dell notebook for personal use about 6 years ago with 'an extra battery'. It turned out to be 2 identical batteries (I8200), which both always were left in the machine, all the time. They both lasted for year and kept a very good charge (3+ hours even at the age of 5 years). About a year ago battery X went dead, but battery Y is still going strong... I have no clue why as I would expect them to be treated quite equally... The remaining battery is still doing well given it's age (holds about an hour of work), but it seems the last year has been much more stressful for it than those when it shared the load and capacity is remarkably going down. That said I'm still disappointed in the first one giving up like that... Usage time was exactly halved when it broke down hence I conclude that it was in about the same state as the still working one. Yet, it simply refused to take a new charge again... When asking around, people insist on telling me that 2 years is the best you can hope for with notebook batteries. I've gone through about 5 portables now, and the only notebook that had it's battery break down on me in less than 4 years was a Dell I8500 that only lasted about 2 years. I'll add to that that the replacement had a very similar life-time, so I'm blaming it on bad circuits in the notebook itself...
YMMV, but having stuff run empty before recharging again has given me the best results so far... maybe because the electronics already 'hide' the real charge and I simply use it from it's lowest safety-point to it's highest safety-point ?
So what you are saying is : it's thanks to the software that decides on what's news-worthy and what not, that we get to see these pretty pictures ? In that case, All Hail to the people who wrote that software !!
At least in XP you had the option to switch everything back to the 'old look and feel', no such thing in Vista (AFAIK) (and don't get me started on the ribbons in Office apps...)
I mean, it's not like it's going to be like :
* OMG, heading has changed 1 to port, need to adjust rudder RIGHT AWAY!
* OMG, wind has veered a bit, need to recalculate and set new sails position NOW!
* OMG, camera picked up a ship on the horizon, FULL ON THE BRAKES !
* etc..
At least, that's now how I (and most of the people I know) do their sailing. Usually it's rather laid back, and most 'errors' tend to "fix themselves", "not reacting right-away" tends to be better than behaving like a nervous maniac trying to keep everything 'on the mark' 100% of the time. (eg. heading sways due to waves : on-average you'll go 'straight-ahead'; main-sail suddenly loosing power because of a temporary shift of the wind : by the time you realize what's going on it's often already back to 'normal', etc...)
Or do I misunderstand 'realtime' here ??? (thinking about it, it might be because the sensor only sends the data once, if the receiver missed it : too bad ???)
In that case, I NEED to ask : how would this fare on the Amiga back in the days ?? They didn't mention it in the paper (omg! =)
I seem to remember (a long time ago, so don't shoot if I'm completely wrong) reading that the AmigaOS was able to do A LOT (magnitudes!?) more Context-switches per second than "any other OS". Most likely "any other" in those days meant Win3.1 or OS/2, so I'm not sure how it would compare to modern Operating Systems. Anyway, I remember the multitasking to be superb, although it might have been a bit more simplistic (eg. no Nice, although you had Pri, which would allow you to set a threads priority too high by accident and turn your machine into a single-tasker =)
...classes and modules one at a time because it won't let me batch...
In fact, it CAN be done, that is, I've done similar stuff in Excel, so I'm pretty sure that it's possible in Access too.
I'll type this while I'm trying it out on some sample MDB I found here, there might (read: WILL) be better ways !
* Go to VBA (alt-F11) * Make sure to reference the VBIDE library (Tools Menu, References, make sure that 'Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications Extensibility vX.Y' is checked) * Add new module to the project, and enter this code in it:
Option Compare Database Option Explicit
Public Sub ExportAllVBAComponents()
Dim oComponent As VBComponent Dim sFileName As String
For Each oComponent In Application.VBE.ActiveVBProject.VBComponents
Select Case oComponent.Type Case vbext_ComponentType.vbext_ct_StdModule sFileName = oComponent.Name & ".bas" Case vbext_ComponentType.vbext_ct_ClassModule sFileName = oComponent.Name & ".cls" Case Else 'add as needed sFileName = oComponent.Name & ".xxx" End Select
oComponent.Export ("c:\temp\" & sFileName) Next
End Sub
The harder part is importing them again. You don't want to 'change' the code you're executing right now, so you'll need to come up with a way to exclude this module from the Import routine. One way would be to simply hard-code the module name, however, I think I'd rather put a flag on top of the file that says to exclude it. That way you can have multiple components that are 'immune to importing without having to make changes to the import module each time. Something along these lines:
Public Sub ImportAllVBAComponents()
Dim oComponent As VBComponent Dim aoComponent() As VBComponent Dim lCounter As Long Dim sFileName As String
'make copy of (pointers to) the projects components ReDim aoComponent(0 To Application.VBE.ActiveVBProject.VBComponents.Count ) For lCounter = 1 To Application.VBE.ActiveVBProject.VBComponents.Count Set aoComponent(lCounter) = Application.VBE.ActiveVBProject.VBComponents(lCoun ter) Next
For lCounter = 1 To UBound(aoComponent) Set oComponent = aoComponent(lCounter)
If oComponent.CodeModule.Lines(1, 1) = "'SkipMeDuringImport !!" Then Debug.Print "Skipping " & oComponent.Name & " because the 'DoNotImport'-flag was found" Else Select Case oComponent.Type Case vbext_ComponentType.vbext_ct_StdModule sFileName = oComponent.Name & ".bas" Case vbext_ComponentType.vbext_ct_ClassModule sFileName = oComponent.Name & ".cls" Case Else 'add as needed
AFAIK : OverNet and eMule share the same protocol but differ quite a bit in the way they handle stuff. What's true for OverNet might not be true for eMule. (and vice versa)
I think that what he means is that "in the total picture of your Torrent session" you get ca 30kbps because you are connected let's say 150 peers in total. Of those 150 peers, 149 are 'real' and some of them are uploading data to you. However, number 150 is actually not a real peer but an 'innocent' web server somewhere whose IP address has been 'tricked' into the Tracker list. All your peers will (regularly?) try to connect with that address and the idea is that this will 'overwhelm' the web server.
Now, to be honest, unless everybody suddenly starts using 'hacked' clients that try to connect 10 times a second, I don't think the web server will really notice. IMHO it's not the concept of P2P that's "the danger" here, but (as usual) the implementation in the client.
Out of curiosity I did a little test : I'm not really a.torrent user because my router tends to go down when I try to download large files via torrent (eg. ubuntu releases), so I prefer eMule if I need something really large (luckily doesn't happen too often so please forgive my ignorance on the subject). As suggested above I did a Kad search for "Shrek". Surprisingly an entry [shrek.mpg] (70Mb) came up with 15k sources! I've never ever seen this before, in the past!? Everything above 500 I considered 'wide-spread' =) Anyway, when I tried to download it, it went from 250 to 1 source and stayed there. Very strange. Maybe this poisoning stuff is more active than I presumed !?! Sifting through the other search results, the "best" I got was ca 650 sources. Assuming all these clients 'talk' to each other and (using source-exchange) pass around the IP of the 'victim web server', that still only gives me ca 650 probes every 25 minutes (= standard interval eMule uses to re-ask a source IIRC). If anything connected to the web goes down because 'in the worst-case scenario' 650 machines try to connect to it all at once and to that again every 25 minutes, well, it's worth going down imho.
PS: Actually I even wonder if eMule will re-ask when there is no proper reply, in fact, I would't be too surprised if it simply strips the IP from the list. PS: the file I picked to download didn't take long to get some 'red' comments and what do you know, another incarnation of the Paris Hilton video =) Of all the filenames linked to this hash, hardly 50% indicated that it was Paris Hilton related, all the rest were games / recent movies / software packages / etc... I always wonder why people do this...
Maybe "pride" not being the correct word, but 'the old address' DOES bring up some fond memories of long lost friends (think MMORPG, fidonet, etc...) Although it's doubtful I'll ever hear from them again, I'd hate the idea of someone not being able to reach me because I decided to close that account.
Besides, the more address forwarded to my current email address, the more likely I'll get lots of doubles, the better the spam-filter will work...isn't it ? =)
PS: another case of people not willing to change address is those that went for firstname@lastname.something. Friend of mine really had to give up that address because it simply got whelmed in spam as he changed ISP. That new ISP did not pre-filter spam, and it simply bogged down his internet connection fetching all that sh*t =(
As far as I care, let the botnets try to kill each other! Sure there will be casualties, but maybe people will learn and we'll all end up in a better world !
Slashdot Mirror
The REAL fun begins when the headlines on the day after read : "Shoot down of satellite failed."
(unlikely, but not impossible...)
While on that train of thoughts : if the rocket would hit the satellite on the bottom of the hydrazine tank and 'puncture' it, wouldn't that make the satellite shoot upwards like .. err .. a balloon on the loose ??
... )
(99% kidding, but still, what if ?
As a side note : I find it amusing how everyone is saying the military is lying and how they just want to show off / test their anti-satellite capabilities. Come on guys, what's new ? Since when did anyone consider those organizations as fully open, honest, transparent entities ???
But that would only be useful when you're somehow "forced" to give your PIN isn't it (eg. when there's a gun to your head).
In the case of phishing you simply do not realize that you're giving away information to a fraud! You actually truly, veritably believe that you're doing something harmless, eg. paying for that book on Amazon (probably a bad example, but you get the drift). So why would you use the 'poisoned-PIN' in this situation ?
FYI : this reminds me of that urban legend where you were supposed to enter your PIN backwards to get the same effect (transaction works out OK but police is informed right away, etc...), amazing how many people believed that story... until I asked them what then would happen if your PIN read 1221. (yes, it *used* to be an old PIN number of mine, actually, it was my first ever... and no, that was 15 years ago and it's been changed plenty of times in the meantime and no, no use looking me up, I don't plan on using it again =)
I've bought quite a lot of stuff on eBay, both cheap (cables) and expensive (laptops) stuff and NEVER had a problem.
I will agree that I'm rather careful selecting sellers/buyers. Eg. if the goods are in Hongkong, I don't even consider buying. If the sending cost is twice the price, never mind either.
For fragile / bulky / expensive stuff I tend to bid only on objects where I'm allowed to fetch the goods myself.
The only 'bad luck' I had with this was that I bought some toners from someone. I let the seller know that I'll come fetch them in about 10 days because I have to be in that part of the country that day. Guy called me back one week later to inform me that he sold the goods to someone else because he had received a better offer via some other 2nd-hand website. I did not really lose anything on that one, but it did piss me off enough to give him bad feedback.
Overall I think eBay works fine, but you have to use some common sense. Although there's plenty of "you must agree" and "you are bound" etc stuff in the "eBay code of conduct", I doubt anyone has taken these to court yet (that is : in Belgium, I'm sure there are other countries that would love to sue just for the sake of it =).
out of curiosity :
if you only need to pay $23, then why foresee $30 on the card ???
(unexpected cost, not minding to be ripped off $7, etc...)
Out of laziness I'd round up too, but 24 is a lot closer to $23.43 than $30 is... just wondering.
or maybe he meant (subconsciously)
"If it seems to good to be true, it robberly is"
Although that might sound a bit too Yodaish...
(yay me for inventing two new words in one post ! =)
You get what you pay for I guess.
First off, GPS is *NOT* free, sure you can tap the airwaves and have your receiver calculate your position without extra cost, but then again, you already paid for the receiver whose manufacturer already paid the 'gps-guys' _some_ amount in order to be able to use the patents / become 'approved' / etc... I'm sure it adds up.
Secondly, I remember from school that on the very first page of a receivers-system it said that the proper functioning could not be guaranteed as the US Army could do with the signals what it wanted, be it switching off (hiding/encrypting) the system entirely, or even passing false information.
I've always considered it 'amazing' that so many people voluntary put their lives on something that has this on the first page. Then again, I guess that when you stay away far enough from 'trouble-zones', the thing will probably tell you "exactly" where you are.
To stay on topic : I think I'd feel a lot better when I'm in the middle of the Atlantic and both my GPS and Gallileo show the same location. When they start diverging seriously, I guess it's back to the sextant and Norie's tables, at least they haven't found a way to tweak the sun (yet).
In fact, if you'd try to be green, I would assume you'd shut down the machine more often, hence have LOWER uptime.
Obligatory quote :
"Oh My GOD!
Do you mean the USAF now has a working version of the Penis Mightier ?? They're sitting on a goldmine I tell you ! If it works I'll order a dozen !"
(or something among those lines, here's a link to the actual transcript : http://snltranscripts.jt.org/98/98pjeopardy.phtml (still makes me laugh out aloud =))
Well, if ships don't use it (or less in each case), they can use the remainder to power electricity-plants. ..
/. tradition that probably means I now need to put : $$PROFIT$$
That way less 'clean fuel' is needed, hence less crude oil needs to be refined, thus less residual shit will be produced
in the
WOOHOOOHOOO, I'm sooo scared now.
...
So what if Skype alters my Firewall settings : I 've strictly allowed it do do so !
(Tools Menu, Options, Advanced, Connection, [v] Allow Skype to modify my firewall settings)
Maybe the setting is on by default, not sure, but if it makes my Skype-experience any better, I don't see why I we have to 'create panic' like this
If you don't want any open ports, then don't install software that needs it in the first place, period.
Sigh.
In fact, that is exactly what *I* do ... well, 2 days a week in each case.
And in all honesty I probably should add that the daycare is only 500m away from my house, so that means I do 500m * 2 (= up and down) * 2 (bring & fetch) = 4 km in the week for that particular purpose, but hey, it's a start, and yes it indeed is energizing!
(The other days of the week I need to drive to work and since it's on my route, I use the car to bring her...)
Testing, testing & testing ?
You only need to set up a specific environment once. Then, in order to do any testing, take a copy of the environment, run whatever is needed and when happy about it, simply revert back to the original 'image' again. Do next test etc... rinse & repeat.
It also makes it easier to spread the exact identical environment to different machines/people in order to do tests in parallel and still be 'certain' that they all will be done identically. If needed you can even (temporarily or not) archive test results in order to work on them later again... eg, when someone needs to find out why things went wrong...
Personally, I like it a lot, it saves me heaps of time and while the test team can happily continue testing on their testing machine(s), they sent me the *entire* environment to delve into... filters out a lot of : "but it works on my machine" frustrations.
Here it is :
http://www.proginosko.com/leechblock.html
And yes, it works very well...
Given the 'changes' that trickle into it, I guess the author has quite some fun trying to keep himself 'locked out' =)
Hehe, been there, not all that long ago even (she's 2 now), and yes, if you're lucky things improve dramatically. Maybe we got lucky, but 20:00 in bed and not a whisper until 10:00 the next morning is "normal" here...
(for the critics around here : yes, that's in weekends only... Now I come to think about it, I should have somehow put in my contract that the firstborn would replace the alarm or something; don't think the boss will agree on it now anymore =)
I'm not versed in this matter anyhow, so no technical backing here, but from real-world experience :
... although I don't have long-time experience with the latter yet.
* I always allow my cellphone to 'die' before I will put it on the charger.
* My girlfriend tends to charge hers at the first sign of the thing running low
We bought (not the same model, I admit) our phones more or less at the same time, mine still holds 4 days on a charge easily, hers now HAS to be charged every second day or it will run out of juice.
Although I'll admit there will be differences in both phone and battery, their spec's are alike (both Nokia) and when new they both lasted about a week.
ps: usage is more or less the same, with me doing slightly more calling...
I'm not saying that you're totally wrong, but in my (limited) experience, completely running down battery-operated stuff and allowing it to fill-up completely again seems to enhance the productivity and life-span of not only NiCad, but also Lithium Ion or those Metal Hydride (sp?)
As a side note : I bought a Dell notebook for personal use about 6 years ago with 'an extra battery'. It turned out to be 2 identical batteries (I8200), which both always were left in the machine, all the time. They both lasted for year and kept a very good charge (3+ hours even at the age of 5 years). About a year ago battery X went dead, but battery Y is still going strong... I have no clue why as I would expect them to be treated quite equally... The remaining battery is still doing well given it's age (holds about an hour of work), but it seems the last year has been much more stressful for it than those when it shared the load and capacity is remarkably going down. That said I'm still disappointed in the first one giving up like that... Usage time was exactly halved when it broke down hence I conclude that it was in about the same state as the still working one. Yet, it simply refused to take a new charge again... When asking around, people insist on telling me that 2 years is the best you can hope for with notebook batteries. I've gone through about 5 portables now, and the only notebook that had it's battery break down on me in less than 4 years was a Dell I8500 that only lasted about 2 years. I'll add to that that the replacement had a very similar life-time, so I'm blaming it on bad circuits in the notebook itself...
YMMV, but having stuff run empty before recharging again has given me the best results so far... maybe because the electronics already 'hide' the real charge and I simply use it from it's lowest safety-point to it's highest safety-point ?
So what you are saying is : it's thanks to the software that decides on what's news-worthy and what not, that we get to see these pretty pictures ?
In that case, All Hail to the people who wrote that software !!
At least in XP you had the option to switch everything back to the 'old look and feel', no such thing in Vista (AFAIK)
(and don't get me started on the ribbons in Office apps...)
I'm just wondering HOW realtime this needs be ?
I mean, it's not like it's going to be like :
* OMG, heading has changed 1 to port, need to adjust rudder RIGHT AWAY!
* OMG, wind has veered a bit, need to recalculate and set new sails position NOW!
* OMG, camera picked up a ship on the horizon, FULL ON THE BRAKES !
* etc..
At least, that's now how I (and most of the people I know) do their sailing. Usually it's rather laid back, and most 'errors' tend to "fix themselves", "not reacting right-away" tends to be better than behaving like a nervous maniac trying to keep everything 'on the mark' 100% of the time. (eg. heading sways due to waves : on-average you'll go 'straight-ahead'; main-sail suddenly loosing power because of a temporary shift of the wind : by the time you realize what's going on it's often already back to 'normal', etc...)
Or do I misunderstand 'realtime' here ???
(thinking about it, it might be because the sensor only sends the data once, if the receiver missed it : too bad ???)
In that case, I NEED to ask : how would this fare on the Amiga back in the days ?? They didn't mention it in the paper (omg! =)
I seem to remember (a long time ago, so don't shoot if I'm completely wrong) reading that the AmigaOS was able to do A LOT (magnitudes!?) more Context-switches per second than "any other OS". Most likely "any other" in those days meant Win3.1 or OS/2, so I'm not sure how it would compare to modern Operating Systems. Anyway, I remember the multitasking to be superb, although it might have been a bit more simplistic (eg. no Nice, although you had Pri, which would allow you to set a threads priority too high by accident and turn your machine into a single-tasker =)
Sigh, I miss those days =)
...classes and modules one at a time because it won't let me batch...
:
:
In fact, it CAN be done, that is, I've done similar stuff in Excel, so I'm pretty sure that it's possible in Access too.
I'll type this while I'm trying it out on some sample MDB I found here, there might (read: WILL) be better ways !
* Go to VBA (alt-F11)
* Make sure to reference the VBIDE library (Tools Menu, References, make sure that 'Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications Extensibility vX.Y' is checked)
* Add new module to the project, and enter this code in it
Option Compare Database
Option Explicit
Public Sub ExportAllVBAComponents()
Dim oComponent As VBComponent
Dim sFileName As String
For Each oComponent In Application.VBE.ActiveVBProject.VBComponents
Debug.Print "Exporting " & oComponent.Name & "..."
Select Case oComponent.Type
Case vbext_ComponentType.vbext_ct_StdModule
sFileName = oComponent.Name & ".bas"
Case vbext_ComponentType.vbext_ct_ClassModule
sFileName = oComponent.Name & ".cls"
Case Else
'add as needed
sFileName = oComponent.Name & ".xxx"
End Select
oComponent.Export ("c:\temp\" & sFileName)
Next
End Sub
The harder part is importing them again. You don't want to 'change' the code you're executing right now, so you'll need to come up with a way to exclude this module from the Import routine. One way would be to simply hard-code the module name, however, I think I'd rather put a flag on top of the file that says to exclude it. That way you can have multiple components that are 'immune to importing without having to make changes to the import module each time. Something along these lines
Public Sub ImportAllVBAComponents()
Dim oComponent As VBComponent
Dim aoComponent() As VBComponent
Dim lCounter As Long
Dim sFileName As String
'make copy of (pointers to) the projects components
ReDim aoComponent(0 To Application.VBE.ActiveVBProject.VBComponents.Count )
For lCounter = 1 To Application.VBE.ActiveVBProject.VBComponents.Count
Set aoComponent(lCounter) = Application.VBE.ActiveVBProject.VBComponents(lCoun ter)
Next
For lCounter = 1 To UBound(aoComponent)
Set oComponent = aoComponent(lCounter)
If oComponent.CodeModule.Lines(1, 1) = "'SkipMeDuringImport !!" Then
Debug.Print "Skipping " & oComponent.Name & " because the 'DoNotImport'-flag was found"
Else
Select Case oComponent.Type
Case vbext_ComponentType.vbext_ct_StdModule
sFileName = oComponent.Name & ".bas"
Case vbext_ComponentType.vbext_ct_ClassModule
sFileName = oComponent.Name & ".cls"
Case Else
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That's not a sentence, that's my ultimate dream ! =)
AFAIK : OverNet and eMule share the same protocol but differ quite a bit in the way they handle stuff. What's true for OverNet might not be true for eMule. (and vice versa)
(and isn't OverNet officially dead ?)
I think that what he means is that "in the total picture of your Torrent session" you get ca 30kbps because you are connected let's say 150 peers in total. Of those 150 peers, 149 are 'real' and some of them are uploading data to you. However, number 150 is actually not a real peer but an 'innocent' web server somewhere whose IP address has been 'tricked' into the Tracker list. All your peers will (regularly?) try to connect with that address and the idea is that this will 'overwhelm' the web server.
.torrent user because my router tends to go down when I try to download large files via torrent (eg. ubuntu releases), so I prefer eMule if I need something really large (luckily doesn't happen too often so please forgive my ignorance on the subject). As suggested above I did a Kad search for "Shrek". Surprisingly an entry [shrek.mpg] (70Mb) came up with 15k sources! I've never ever seen this before, in the past!? Everything above 500 I considered 'wide-spread' =) Anyway, when I tried to download it, it went from 250 to 1 source and stayed there. Very strange. Maybe this poisoning stuff is more active than I presumed !?! Sifting through the other search results, the "best" I got was ca 650 sources. Assuming all these clients 'talk' to each other and (using source-exchange) pass around the IP of the 'victim web server', that still only gives me ca 650 probes every 25 minutes (= standard interval eMule uses to re-ask a source IIRC). If anything connected to the web goes down because 'in the worst-case scenario' 650 machines try to connect to it all at once and to that again every 25 minutes, well, it's worth going down imho.
... I always wonder why people do this...
Now, to be honest, unless everybody suddenly starts using 'hacked' clients that try to connect 10 times a second, I don't think the web server will really notice. IMHO it's not the concept of P2P that's "the danger" here, but (as usual) the implementation in the client.
Out of curiosity I did a little test : I'm not really a
PS: Actually I even wonder if eMule will re-ask when there is no proper reply, in fact, I would't be too surprised if it simply strips the IP from the list.
PS: the file I picked to download didn't take long to get some 'red' comments and what do you know, another incarnation of the Paris Hilton video =) Of all the filenames linked to this hash, hardly 50% indicated that it was Paris Hilton related, all the rest were games / recent movies / software packages / etc
Well, actually, to me it makes sense.
Maybe "pride" not being the correct word, but 'the old address' DOES bring up some fond memories of long lost friends (think MMORPG, fidonet, etc...)
Although it's doubtful I'll ever hear from them again, I'd hate the idea of someone not being able to reach me because I decided to close that account.
Besides, the more address forwarded to my current email address, the more likely I'll get lots of doubles, the better the spam-filter will work...isn't it ? =)
PS: another case of people not willing to change address is those that went for firstname@lastname.something. Friend of mine really had to give up that address because it simply got whelmed in spam as he changed ISP. That new ISP did not pre-filter spam, and it simply bogged down his internet connection fetching all that sh*t =(
As far as I care, let the botnets try to kill each other! Sure there will be casualties, but maybe people will learn and we'll all end up in a better world !