Another possible method to clean these files is to save as rich text format (RTF). I just had someone with a 120 page Word file that wouldn't save (in Word format) anymore. Saving as RTF got them running again without hosing too much of their formatting. The file could be saved as DOC again after this.
hey shepd, could you please contact me about this. I've been looking at the websites, etc. Is your how-to locked behind the members login on www.nebulink.net? I would like to read as much as possible about this before I recommend it to people.
Still down on Tuesday... is the article mirrored somewhere? I would like to read it, but it's a little late for me - I just spent $250 on the final parts for my budget system.
DDT isn't gone. Thousands of tons are still used yearly.
It is mostly gone from the US (except for residues which will be with us for decades), but I don't see many people dying from malaria here.
Here's a URL (even the environmentalists aren't in favor of immediate, total bans)
http://www.worldwildlife.org/toxics/progareas/po p/ ddt.htm
Michael says that "Silent Spring was more or less successful --.... but overall, environmental quality has continued to suffer". I would disagree with that. If you look at the direction the environment was taking before the book, we have made huge strides. Our(US) water and air is in much better shape now than the sixties. And the trend is to improve that, even though it will take many years to separate our sewer and road drains, etc.
Unless something has changed in the last ten years, there is no total ban on DDT. It is banned for most uses in the US, but our chemical companies still export tons of it.
A problem with DDT is that it's so persistent. Newer pesticides are more specific to the pest, typically used at lower spray rates. And ideally they decompose in the environment faster. But maybe more expensive?
I think some of the research cited in Silent Spring was done at MSU (DDT residue under trees). I'm pretty sure DDT is still here, even though it hasn't been sprayed in ~30 years. It's also in our fatty tissue and passed on to children in breast milk. (hopefully at low enough levels not to be a problem!)
Malathion and DDT have been studied quite intensively, it's unlikely that further research will find malathion to be far worse than DDT.
But I'm not sure that malathion is what is being used (WNV just showed up in Michigan this past summer)... a quick web search yielded this "The larvicide to be used in this effort is VectoLex CG, a granular, bacterial agent. It is the same product the Health Department has used throughout the mosquito season to treat catch basins and other areas of standing water where mosquitoes breed. The larvicide will be dropped from a low flying helicopter into the targeted marshes and wetlands. "
That's from a NYC website http://www.ci.nyc.ny.us/html/doh/html/public/press 01/pr77-910.html
I'm somewhat out-of-date on organic standards, but this sounds like a product similar to BT (bacillus thuringensis) which is been studied, isn't harmful to humans and is OK for organic farmers to use.
The only way I can see it being directly harmful to birds is by cutting back on their food supply (fewer mosquitoes).
I saw that positive review about the 8M cache, but was put off that the special drives were only available directly from WD's webstore. WD said it was only a $80 premium, ($379 vs $299 I think) but that didn't take into account street pricing which was more like $230.
Then last week I saw Dirt Cheap Drives was selling the 8MB cache versions for $280 - very tempting!
If you would *read* the Infoworld article, you would see that they tested it both ways. And Win2000 was always faster.
But I can't say that I agree with their conclusions... how many people keep their system pegged for an 8 hour work day and would lose the 53 minutes? And mightn't the slower processing be compensated for by ease of use, or similar issues. (of course, that's hard to benchmark)
I'm also curious to know how much RAM was in these systems?
"Actually several manufacturers are now doing batches of say 100 NICS all with the same MAC address because they are running out of them. "
I'm pretty sure it messes up a LAN to have duplicate MAC addresses on it. Also some places base their security on MAC addrs, probably not a good idea, but this would totally screw that up.
Oh, I have heard of vendors accidently duplicating MAC addresses (years ago).
I won't argue about "virtually impossible", but I will say "very difficult".
I get the MS security bulletins, when one arrives I decide if it applies to me or not. So generally my servers are patched appropriately. Yet I had to spend two hours the other morning looking up patches after running HFnetchk. It said I needed 8 patches, including HyperTerminal, NetMeeting, EventViewer, Telnet server, etc.
I decided it was easier to just apply everything, rather than take a chance and miss something. Three reboots later I was done.
But I don't have much faith that something in the later patches overwrote an earlier fix, etc. It's just too clumsy. And I still have 3 more servers to work on.
I don't know how this can get a score 5 when it is mostly *wrong*.
Windows Update does NOT include patches for server products, at least it didn't back in July when Code Red came out.
The first high profile attack was Code Red, on July 16. The patch to fix code red (MS01-033) was announced on June 18. Late in July I asked Microsoft why that patch wasn't listed in Windows Update, their reply was that wasn't meant to update servers.
Service Pack 2 was released May 16 and provides no protection against Code Red.
I'm not sure what MPSA is?
The anti-virus software links to patches were of no use, until after the fact.
I'm not sure what educational value it has, but for non-violent we really love Glider. It's from Cassidy&Green, started out as a Mac program, but there is a windows version.
You control a paper airplane flying thru a house, catching lift from hot air ducts, candles, etc.
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Another possible method to clean these files is to save as rich text format (RTF). I just had someone with a 120 page Word file that wouldn't save (in Word format) anymore. Saving as RTF got them running again without hosing too much of their formatting. The file could be saved as DOC again after this.
hey shepd,
could you please contact me about this. I've been looking at the websites, etc. Is your how-to locked behind the members login on www.nebulink.net? I would like to read as much as possible about this before I recommend it to people.
valenti @ msu.edu
thanks!
"Microsoft has pioneered" - oh great, there they go re-writing history again.
Back in the old days, most software was just installed by copying the files.
Most of the "better" IDE Raid cards use 1 drive per channel. For example, Adaptec 2400.
And the typical Dell PC with a hard drive and CD is shipped with each device on it's own channel.
hmmm, I wonder if that info is subpoena-able by John Q Public?
Still down on Tuesday... is the article mirrored somewhere? I would like to read it, but it's a little late for me - I just spent $250 on the final parts for my budget system.
(off topic)
hey zerocool^,
wanted to ask you a question about these $400 rebates on hp dvd (I'm on that site now and don't see them....)
but I don't see any direct way to contact you...
you can email me at valenti at msu.edu
DDT isn't gone. Thousands of tons are still used yearly.
o p/ ddt.htm
.... but overall, environmental quality has continued to suffer". I would disagree with that. If you look at the direction the environment was taking before the book, we have made huge strides. Our(US) water and air is in much better shape now than the sixties. And the trend is to improve that, even though it will take many years to separate our sewer and road drains, etc.
It is mostly gone from the US (except for residues which will be with us for decades), but I don't see many people dying from malaria here.
Here's a URL (even the environmentalists aren't in favor of immediate, total bans)
http://www.worldwildlife.org/toxics/progareas/p
Michael says that "Silent Spring was more or less successful --
Unless something has changed in the last ten years, there is no total ban on DDT. It is banned for most uses in the US, but our chemical companies still export tons of it.
A problem with DDT is that it's so persistent. Newer pesticides are more specific to the pest, typically used at lower spray rates. And ideally they decompose in the environment faster. But maybe more expensive?
I think some of the research cited in Silent Spring was done at MSU (DDT residue under trees). I'm pretty sure DDT is still here, even though it hasn't been sprayed in ~30 years. It's also in our fatty tissue and passed on to children in breast milk. (hopefully at low enough levels not to be a problem!)
Malathion and DDT have been studied quite intensively, it's unlikely that further research will find malathion to be far worse than DDT.
s 01/pr77-910.html
But I'm not sure that malathion is what is being used (WNV just showed up in Michigan this past summer)... a quick web search yielded this "The larvicide to be used in this effort is VectoLex CG, a granular, bacterial agent. It is the same product the Health Department has used throughout the mosquito season to treat catch basins and other areas of standing water where mosquitoes breed. The larvicide will be dropped from a low flying helicopter into the targeted marshes and wetlands. "
That's from a NYC website http://www.ci.nyc.ny.us/html/doh/html/public/pres
I'm somewhat out-of-date on organic standards, but this sounds like a product similar to BT (bacillus thuringensis) which is been studied, isn't harmful to humans and is OK for organic farmers to use.
The only way I can see it being directly harmful to birds is by cutting back on their food supply (fewer mosquitoes).
Oh god, now I have a -type and an ism!
(no relation to Jack)
But I must not be a valenti-type, since I loved Code.
I saw that positive review about the 8M cache, but was put off that the special drives were only available directly from WD's webstore. WD said it was only a $80 premium, ($379 vs $299 I think) but that didn't take into account street pricing which was more like $230.
Then last week I saw Dirt Cheap Drives was selling the 8MB cache versions for $280 - very tempting!
If you would *read* the Infoworld article, you would see that they tested it both ways. And Win2000 was always faster.
But I can't say that I agree with their conclusions... how many people keep their system pegged for an 8 hour work day and would lose the 53 minutes? And mightn't the slower processing be compensated for by ease of use, or similar issues. (of course, that's hard to benchmark)
I'm also curious to know how much RAM was in these systems?
Do you have any references to this?
"Actually several manufacturers are now doing batches of say 100 NICS all with the same MAC address because they are running out of them. "
I'm pretty sure it messes up a LAN to have duplicate MAC addresses on it. Also some places base their security on MAC addrs, probably not a good idea, but this would totally screw that up.
Oh, I have heard of vendors accidently duplicating MAC addresses (years ago).
I won't argue about "virtually impossible", but I will say "very difficult".
I get the MS security bulletins, when one arrives I decide if it applies to me or not. So generally my servers are patched appropriately. Yet I had to spend two hours the other morning looking up patches after running HFnetchk. It said I needed 8 patches, including HyperTerminal, NetMeeting, EventViewer, Telnet server, etc.
I decided it was easier to just apply everything, rather than take a chance and miss something. Three reboots later I was done.
But I don't have much faith that something in the later patches overwrote an earlier fix, etc. It's just too clumsy. And I still have 3 more servers to work on.
I don't know how this can get a score 5 when it is mostly *wrong*.
Windows Update does NOT include patches for server products, at least it didn't back in July when Code Red came out.
The first high profile attack was Code Red, on July 16. The patch to fix code red (MS01-033) was announced on June 18. Late in July I asked Microsoft why that patch wasn't listed in Windows Update, their reply was that wasn't meant to update servers.
Service Pack 2 was released May 16 and provides no protection against Code Red.
I'm not sure what MPSA is?
The anti-virus software links to patches were of no use, until after the fact.
I'm not sure what educational value it has, but for non-violent we really love Glider. It's from Cassidy&Green, started out as a Mac program, but there is a windows version.
You control a paper airplane flying thru a house, catching lift from hot air ducts, candles, etc.