If you actually managed to become your own father or grandfather you would be creating a genetic loopback that would only end with death or a level of genetic mutation where you can no longer procreate (assuming you don't look horrible enough to just drive your ancestors away). Thats also assuming that the mutation doesn't change your lifestyle enough to where you never travelled back in time in the first place. In almost all events you would break the cycle though and time would snap back to its present form.
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If you can touch type in dvorak you can just change the keyboard layout in the system settings while you use it. No need to change any hardware.
Just remember to change it back when you're done so you don't confuse the other users.
The brand is actually "Great Quality". The units are made by ECS. The main issue is that until recently they didn't ship with modem drivers that worked in Linux.
As long as you have a decent idea of how to work a computer and remember to install an antivirus program (assuming you format the drive and install windows) they work great.
If you really want to have fun get one of the discontinued models when the price drops down under $100 then buy a 5 year service contract for $19. The motherboard will probably die in about 6 months and you'll end up with a new Abit board, new modem, new RAM and probably a few other parts.
"While the disposal rule only covers consumer credit reports and information derived from credit reports, experts say it's best to destroy anything that includes personal information because the definition is not crystal clear."
Considering I handle contact and billing information for ~50-100 customers per day this could get interesting (in a bad way) real fast. I'm just waiting for corporate to interpret whether this effects our paperwork or not then change their minds a few week later and make us redo everything.
Virus infections usually use your PC to spread and infect others. Spyware comes from websites and program installations and doesnt spread from your PC. There are some that cross the line but thats the easiest definition i've come across.
Just had to point out its nearly impossible to accidentally kill a mac. Tried firing one up with a paperclip in the memory slot and it still worked. Had to run a USB death cable (USB cable spliced into a 19.5V 6A sony notebook adapter) to it before it would die... apple fixed it under warranty. As long as you don't snap anything off or leave non-apple stuff (RAM, hard drives) inside when shipping it they're pretty good about repairs.
If they used anything close to a decent bittorrent client implementation it might have. As it is they want you to allow 120 incoming ports through your firewall when a decent client only needs one.
You'd think that with all of the time and effort they spent on the game they could have designed the update system a little better.
As a person forced to maintain 50 win2k and 10 NT 4 computers with open office on them I feel forced to point out its bad points.
1. To function properly it must be installed as administrator then have a repair run when logged in as the user to function properly. 2. Under NT4 it will randomly crash when used with a screen depth of over 256 colors. 3. It randomly drops file associations. 4. The horrible resouce hog known as soffice.exe that can use anywhere upto 50MB of ram running in the background at boot. If you dont have it boot it stays resident after opening a document. 5. It destroys page breaks on non-native documents meaning that the majority of them have to be edited to print correctly.
Im sure there are more that i've purposefully blacked out of my memory.
I've been doing spyware removals for customer's at my job for over a year now. At first it was easy, just run Ad-Aware and you're done. Now some of the spyware programs are getting much more deceptive and can actually startup in safe mode making it nearly impossible to remove.
At this point the first thing i do for a scan is use a USB adapter and connect the hard drive to my test station then clear all temp folders and run spysweeper and adaware to find any files. Then i reconnect the drive adn boot directly into safe mode and rerun both programs to clean out any registry entries. Finally i go through with hijackthis to repair any damage to the browser.
Ive tried out Giant spyware and it seems to work fairly well but the stupid tray app WILL NOT GO AWAY even after haing all of its startup options unchecked.
Also, the new version of Pest Patrol from eTrust keeps detecting a small text file in my 3 year old compressed video drivers as a keylogger:)
The corrupt cache files are linked to a problem where people can not login to steam to activate/play the game at all. Its completely seperate from the stuttering issue.
I am one of the people with the stuttering issue. The game was running great then i got the stuttering when the video call in the interrogation room at the beginning of the game. Now it happens whenever i start the game. CS:S works fine though.
I wonder if it checks.ogm and.mkv files (used for many anime releases online do to soft subtitle support). Might see some shifting away from AVI and MPG file formats.
St. Louis - Fair use was dealt a harsh blow today in a Federal Court decision that held that programmers are not allowed to create free software designed to work with commercial products.
Umm... with that wording wouldn't that make it illegal to use free software with windows?
The site says my fake volume license key is legit. The people they're catching are the ones that got screwed by shady computer stores that slapped a computer together with an unlicensed copy of XP and give the customer a burned CD. If it makes anyone feel better I have 5 NFR copies of XP Pro that have never been used.
I remove spyware from 10-20 customer PCs per week at work ($60 each). In safe mode after clearing out the restore folder, and making sure i have access to all the files on the drive AdAware will catch ~15 programs in 1000-2000 traces. Then run Spybot and get another 10 in 200-300 traces. After that i reboot and go directly back into safe mode and run Webroot Spysweeper and ill still catch another 2000+ traces that the first two missed completely. Also, the people that created vx2 need to be hurt badly.
So what are the chances that someone could accidentally wipe the shared data pool for an entire company and how hard is recovery on a volume striped across a few hundred hard drives?
You do realize you dont have to actually install the previous version first right? Just start with the upgrade disk and let it scan the old CD for a few seconds when it asks for verification. I had someone yesterday at work who had upgrade disks for XP, ME, 98 and 95 and thought they had to have 3.1 installed first then work their way up.
I guess they figured that people weren't buying the old excuses about only using stuff like this to track sex offenders/pedophiles so now they're trying to protect old people. Im just waiting for the day when they hand everyone fluffy white wool jackets to wear.
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If you actually managed to become your own father or grandfather you would be creating a genetic loopback that would only end with death or a level of genetic mutation where you can no longer procreate (assuming you don't look horrible enough to just drive your ancestors away). Thats also assuming that the mutation doesn't change your lifestyle enough to where you never travelled back in time in the first place. In almost all events you would break the cycle though and time would snap back to its present form.
If you can touch type in dvorak you can just change the keyboard layout in the system settings while you use it. No need to change any hardware.
Just remember to change it back when you're done so you don't confuse the other users.
The brand is actually "Great Quality". The units are made by ECS. The main issue is that until recently they didn't ship with modem drivers that worked in Linux.
As long as you have a decent idea of how to work a computer and remember to install an antivirus program (assuming you format the drive and install windows) they work great.
If you really want to have fun get one of the discontinued models when the price drops down under $100 then buy a 5 year service contract for $19. The motherboard will probably die in about 6 months and you'll end up with a new Abit board, new modem, new RAM and probably a few other parts.
Is this supposed to be retroactive or are UK songs from before June 1955 still public domain?
"While the disposal rule only covers consumer credit reports and information derived from credit reports, experts say it's best to destroy anything that includes personal information because the definition is not crystal clear."
Considering I handle contact and billing information for ~50-100 customers per day this could get interesting (in a bad way) real fast. I'm just waiting for corporate to interpret whether this effects our paperwork or not then change their minds a few week later and make us redo everything.
Virus infections usually use your PC to spread and infect others. Spyware comes from websites and program installations and doesnt spread from your PC. There are some that cross the line but thats the easiest definition i've come across.
Now you don't have to blame the alcohol when you say she looked different because of the low lighting.
You'd think someone would have realized something was wrong with the pen name Travis Tea...
IRC also works as a great source of entertainment without being illegal as shown at http://bash.org/
Just had to point out its nearly impossible to accidentally kill a mac. Tried firing one up with a paperclip in the memory slot and it still worked. Had to run a USB death cable (USB cable spliced into a 19.5V 6A sony notebook adapter) to it before it would die... apple fixed it under warranty. As long as you don't snap anything off or leave non-apple stuff (RAM, hard drives) inside when shipping it they're pretty good about repairs.
If they used anything close to a decent bittorrent client implementation it might have. As it is they want you to allow 120 incoming ports through your firewall when a decent client only needs one.
You'd think that with all of the time and effort they spent on the game they could have designed the update system a little better.
They changed the timeclock override password at work from 00000 to 12345 because the button broke from overuse :)
As a person forced to maintain 50 win2k and 10 NT 4 computers with open office on them I feel forced to point out its bad points.
1. To function properly it must be installed as administrator then have a repair run when logged in as the user to function properly.
2. Under NT4 it will randomly crash when used with a screen depth of over 256 colors.
3. It randomly drops file associations.
4. The horrible resouce hog known as soffice.exe that can use anywhere upto 50MB of ram running in the background at boot. If you dont have it boot it stays resident after opening a document.
5. It destroys page breaks on non-native documents meaning that the majority of them have to be edited to print correctly.
Im sure there are more that i've purposefully blacked out of my memory.
I've been doing spyware removals for customer's at my job for over a year now. At first it was easy, just run Ad-Aware and you're done. Now some of the spyware programs are getting much more deceptive and can actually startup in safe mode making it nearly impossible to remove.
:)
At this point the first thing i do for a scan is use a USB adapter and connect the hard drive to my test station then clear all temp folders and run spysweeper and adaware to find any files. Then i reconnect the drive adn boot directly into safe mode and rerun both programs to clean out any registry entries. Finally i go through with hijackthis to repair any damage to the browser.
Ive tried out Giant spyware and it seems to work fairly well but the stupid tray app WILL NOT GO AWAY even after haing all of its startup options unchecked.
Also, the new version of Pest Patrol from eTrust keeps detecting a small text file in my 3 year old compressed video drivers as a keylogger
The corrupt cache files are linked to a problem where people can not login to steam to activate/play the game at all. Its completely seperate from the stuttering issue.
I am one of the people with the stuttering issue. The game was running great then i got the stuttering when the video call in the interrogation room at the beginning of the game. Now it happens whenever i start the game. CS:S works fine though.
I wonder if it checks .ogm and .mkv files (used for many anime releases online do to soft subtitle support). Might see some shifting away from AVI and MPG file formats.
The test is called linpack.
http://www.top500.org/lists/linpack.php
Imagine if when you bought a music CD you had to sign a contract saying you wouldn't allow anyone but yourself to hear any time you played it.
I'd say its time to buy stock in headphone companies.
St. Louis - Fair use was dealt a harsh blow today in a Federal Court decision that held that programmers are not allowed to create free software designed to work with commercial products.
Umm... with that wording wouldn't that make it illegal to use free software with windows?
Chess may be more fun but with Go a good human player can beat the computer every time.
The site says my fake volume license key is legit. The people they're catching are the ones that got screwed by shady computer stores that slapped a computer together with an unlicensed copy of XP and give the customer a burned CD. If it makes anyone feel better I have 5 NFR copies of XP Pro that have never been used.
I remove spyware from 10-20 customer PCs per week at work ($60 each). In safe mode after clearing out the restore folder, and making sure i have access to all the files on the drive AdAware will catch ~15 programs in 1000-2000 traces. Then run Spybot and get another 10 in 200-300 traces. After that i reboot and go directly back into safe mode and run Webroot Spysweeper and ill still catch another 2000+ traces that the first two missed completely. Also, the people that created vx2 need to be hurt badly.
So what are the chances that someone could accidentally wipe the shared data pool for an entire company and how hard is recovery on a volume striped across a few hundred hard drives?
You do realize you dont have to actually install the previous version first right? Just start with the upgrade disk and let it scan the old CD for a few seconds when it asks for verification. I had someone yesterday at work who had upgrade disks for XP, ME, 98 and 95 and thought they had to have 3.1 installed first then work their way up.
I guess they figured that people weren't buying the old excuses about only using stuff like this to track sex offenders/pedophiles so now they're trying to protect old people. Im just waiting for the day when they hand everyone fluffy white wool jackets to wear.