Let me get this straight... you actually beleive the moon landings were a hoax? Do you honesty think the United States would be able to keep a conspiracy like that under wraps for so long? Even assuming the government COULD control the media like that, other countries would have no reason to play along, and I'm sure it would have been trivial for them to disprove the moon landings, if they truly had been faked.
I can't beleive Longhorn would require any of those things, however. If it did, no one would buy it. If there's one thing Microsoft isn't, its stupid. If they made an operating system that wasn't backwards compatible, they would be in the same boat as, say the Mac OS, or Linux.
IPC = Instructions Per Cycle. Its the amount of work a CPU can do in a clock cycle. (The higher the IPC, the more efficent the processor, which is how AMD's processors can do the same amount of work with a lower clock speed)
It (Mandrake) also overwrites your MBR with its own bootloader without even asking! Awesome, that's what I call user-friendly!
Actually, thats not true. It clearly gives you options about how exactly you want to set up a dual booting system. (It just gives you an easy cop-out option, and let mandrake do its thing, which I did)
guess my question is, why is it possible to have a decent Linux distribution that runs within XP, but it's not possible to take a dual-drive Dell and easily make your system let you choose between XP and Linux atstartup?
Pretty much
every
distribution can make this happen for you automatically... (yes, speaking from experience). The most recent of which I installed was Mandrake, works like a charm, nice easy colorful menu and all =-P (This is on an old Thinkpad 600E, with only one hard drive, so I'd assume you would have no problems at all).
The first time i installed Windows XP i thought "well isnt this nice, finally these guys have made something nice and stable" but somehow, update after update, and a couple of months exposed to spyware and it was ruined just like we know it now.
So you install arguably malicious programs and blame Microsoft's programmers? If you install it, its your fault.
because to them, computers are some kind of magical device that is supposed to work but it never really does anyway
This is true.
much like a car,
Mine works fine, as long as I keep putting that black gold in it (damn gas prices)
The game that I always remmember having to do that with was a game called HQ, was like a primitive RTS almost. (I remmember the most fun was nuking random countries, good stuff)
It's been said that the cure for hemophilia is to let the bleeders die before they breed more bleeders.
Probably uttered by someone who is completely ignorant of genetics. Since hemophilia is caused by a recessive gene, just "letting the bleeders die" isn't going to do much. Just because someone has some bad genes, doesn't mean they don't have any good ones. My grandfather has usher's syndrome (which means I'm probably a carrier). He's also a genius (literally). Since genetics allows for the possibility that good genes will be passed on, while bad ones won't (at least in a portion of the offpsring) I don't see any reason to "selectively breed" people.
Just wait untill someone genuinely codes some genetic algorithms into viruses - then we may really be in trouble....
I did research (albeit very simple) on GA's for my senior project, and while they are useful for many things, using them as part of a virus might not be as beneficial as you'd think. The virus would either have to have built in programming to interpret it's "genome", or; modify its own programming. For viruses that rely on buffer overruns and the like, it is unlikely GA's would be useful, since these types of attacks rely on specific bugs, and any change would probably hinder the virus. E-mail viruses would probably have the most to gain from GA's, instead of having a couple of form letters, (how many times have I seen e-mails with the subject "Details" or "Your details") viruses could "mutate" the e-mails they are sending out, as well as taking "genetic code" from e-mails in the user's mailbox.
In which case I'll just note that a DL380 with 2 CPUs @ 3GHz running Windows is almost as fast as my 1 CPU Athlon/1500 running a Unix.
I hate when people talk like that, pretending acts like some sort of turbo for their computer... having used both windows and linux [GUI mode] on low (low) end hardware, they're both slow... I don't care what OS you are using, your Athlon running at 1.5ghz is not going to start showing up on the worlds Top 100 super computer list...
The simplest legislative solution would be to legalize the killing of spammers. I envision an eviscerated corpse, strangled with networking cable, with a can of spam kicked into it's mouth, the teeth smashed to shards.
Wouldn't be too much fun if they fought back though, eh?
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All it really validates is that most consumers are fools and will fall for any hype the Apple marketing department throws at them. If people were intelligent enough to do a little research, they could find that buying a full-blown iPod for only 50 dollars more would be a much wiser decision, space wise, or another portable mp3 player entirely, rather than shelling out an insane amount of money for an Apple iPod that is shiny, pretty, and has "cool" commercials...
Right... because looking just a little to the right on apple.com to see the bigger iPod for $50 bucks more is beyond most "foolish" consumers... I think someone else's post hit the nail on the head here perfectly: That to us geeks "oh! you get more space for only 50 bucks!" it makes sense, but to the consumer, they see they can put like 2 solid days of music on it, and its smaller, and comes in colors! My father owns one (bought a mini the first day it came out), and he understands the concept of a gigabyte, and he also understood the concept of "50 dollars cheaper, and still holds more music than he needs it to, and is incredibly small" And the best part? It Syncs with iTunes, so songs purchased off of their go straight to the iPod, instead of having to burn to CD then re-ripping (As I have to do, I have one of these, its great for my car, but it doesn't hold as much)
I would have to agree with you, it sucks that I have to have 5 different programs scanning for things all the time, instead of one... On the other hand, At least I get the peace of mind that one program hasn't been tripped up. On my parents machine, I would also like to note that every Anti-virus/spyware program was disabled, and either would not run or would not update... so go figure (had to boot into safe mode and remove it all myself, took way too long)
C. Ad-aware does as well as an automated tool can do (hopefully), but it cannot kill the latest spyware variant, the automatic cloning program. These programs are scheduled to make multiple copies of themselves with different names and be deposited in different directories and then look out for each other. Should any one of them disappear, the others will quickly clone and replace the missing file and launch it again. Further, they incessantly monitor Windows Registry activity, and as soon as their 'autostart' (in one of the 'Run' keys) is removed, they will immediately replace it. As Ad-aware cannot deal with spyware that fights back like this, Ad-aware cannot defeat them.
Dear god, I came across this a month ago, last time I cleaned out my parent's computer. I have never seen anything fight back like that in my life. Also, windows programs like msconfig, and notepad were over-written by some program (couldn't determinei what it was) that seemed to reinfect the computer. Really nasty stuff. I did manage to get it all off, but of course I check a week later and theres tons of spyware back on it *sigh*. Luckily not the same stuff though.
I know parent are kidding (or at least, exagereting), but if MS-AntiVirus(c) existed now, sure it could detect the win2000-source.zip "virus" and call home or delete it.
That is an interesting (yet scary) idea. I personally don't think it'll end up that way (think back to the CPU ID numbers the P3 had, and the problems that caused). If Microsoft tried to do anything like that, you can be guaranteed everyone and their grandmother would be up-in-arms (at least, one can hope).
If I read the article correctly, couldn't the program itself just mark that section of memmory "execute"? (Or do programs not have that capability?). In a buffer overrun situation, the attacker can't actually execute any code (on one of these processors) so they could never change the section of memmory they are over-writing to "executable" but surely a program could (?)
These people STILL infected with MyDoom don't know the first thing about computer security. They would be MUCH MUCH better off with a Mac than with windows. All they probably do anyway is chat with their little friends on AIM and check their webmail.
And that's great, until Macintosh's become popular enough for viruses to be written for them (at which point its going to be a massacre). A guy I work with owns a Macintosh, and he brags about how he doesn't need to run any antivirus program and how he can open all attachments. If a virus like MyDoom was created for the Macintosh, how much you want to bet my coworker (and people like him) would get infected right away, because they aren't using common sense? Windows may be buggy, and windows may have a lot of security holes, but in this case, MyDoom does not take advantage of any of them MyDoom takes advantage of the traditional weakest link in any security system, people.
Don't make the rest of the population pay for bad economics and planning.
What bad economics and planning would that be? Creating a product and then selling it? The only reason the entertainment industry is having trouble right now is because their product is easy to steal! If it wasn't, they would be in the green right now. As I see it, downloading an MP3 is like shoplifting. No, it isn't a big deal, but it's still breaking the law, and wrong.
I'd defintely have to agree with you. Owning a Tivo myself, I also make use of the "thumb" buttons to rate each show I watch, on the [doubtful] chance that it'll effect something somewhere. When you think about it, if you aren't a Nelson family, then you really almost have no voice on what is on television. This way, at least the stations know what you like/dislike. Also, it isn't like they didn't say they didn't track anybody, just that they won't personally identify you.
In my experience personal experience with Dish Network in New Jersey, outages are extremely rare, and only usually occur during heavy precipitation. In the last year, I'd say I've probably lost my service about 4 times, which isn't too bad considering cable tv goes down just about as often (cable is just cable in the last mile after all, they use sattelites too). That being said, if you plan on having a ton of TVs in your house, I'd go for cable. Probably the biggest problem with satelite is that (for the Dish Network, anyway) you are limited to a certain amount of TVs per satelite, which sucks if you want to have more than 4 televisions.
You've worked with some crap PCs in that case. These days, 2.4GHz and 256meg of RAM is pretty-much entry level, but XP will fly on that sort of spec.
WinXP runs acceptably on my 1.2ghz T-bird (I don't spend too much time waiting) and with all the eye candy turned off, runs fine on my P2 380mhz Thinkpad.
That being said, I really wish I had an "entry level" PC =-P
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Let me get this straight... you actually beleive the moon landings were a hoax? Do you honesty think the United States would be able to keep a conspiracy like that under wraps for so long? Even assuming the government COULD control the media like that, other countries would have no reason to play along, and I'm sure it would have been trivial for them to disprove the moon landings, if they truly had been faked.
Aye. The webpage just "tries" too hard. The nice stuff about Apple products it that they are clean and elegant, while this just... isn't.
I can't beleive Longhorn would require any of those things, however. If it did, no one would buy it. If there's one thing Microsoft isn't, its stupid. If they made an operating system that wasn't backwards compatible, they would be in the same boat as, say the Mac OS, or Linux.
IPC = Instructions Per Cycle. Its the amount of work a CPU can do in a clock cycle. (The higher the IPC, the more efficent the processor, which is how AMD's processors can do the same amount of work with a lower clock speed)
So...how much heat does a golf ball make, exactly?
African, or European?
It (Mandrake) also overwrites your MBR with its own bootloader without even asking! Awesome, that's what I call user-friendly!
Actually, thats not true. It clearly gives you options about how exactly you want to set up a dual booting system. (It just gives you an easy cop-out option, and let mandrake do its thing, which I did)
Pretty much
- every
distribution can make this happen for you automatically... (yes, speaking from experience). The most recent of which I installed was Mandrake, works like a charm, nice easy colorful menu and all =-P (This is on an old Thinkpad 600E, with only one hard drive, so I'd assume you would have no problems at all).The first time i installed Windows XP i thought "well isnt this nice, finally these guys have made something nice and stable" but somehow, update after update, and a couple of months exposed to spyware and it was ruined just like we know it now.
So you install arguably malicious programs and blame Microsoft's programmers? If you install it, its your fault.
because to them, computers are some kind of magical device that is supposed to work but it never really does anyway
This is true.
much like a car,
Mine works fine, as long as I keep putting that black gold in it (damn gas prices)
The game that I always remmember having to do that with was a game called HQ, was like a primitive RTS almost. (I remmember the most fun was nuking random countries, good stuff)
It's been said that the cure for hemophilia is to let the bleeders die before they breed more bleeders.
Probably uttered by someone who is completely ignorant of genetics. Since hemophilia is caused by a recessive gene, just "letting the bleeders die" isn't going to do much. Just because someone has some bad genes, doesn't mean they don't have any good ones. My grandfather has usher's syndrome (which means I'm probably a carrier). He's also a genius (literally). Since genetics allows for the possibility that good genes will be passed on, while bad ones won't (at least in a portion of the offpsring) I don't see any reason to "selectively breed" people.
Just wait untill someone genuinely codes some genetic algorithms into viruses - then we may really be in trouble ....
I did research (albeit very simple) on GA's for my senior project, and while they are useful for many things, using them as part of a virus might not be as beneficial as you'd think. The virus would either have to have built in programming to interpret it's "genome", or; modify its own programming. For viruses that rely on buffer overruns and the like, it is unlikely GA's would be useful, since these types of attacks rely on specific bugs, and any change would probably hinder the virus. E-mail viruses would probably have the most to gain from GA's, instead of having a couple of form letters, (how many times have I seen e-mails with the subject "Details" or "Your details") viruses could "mutate" the e-mails they are sending out, as well as taking "genetic code" from e-mails in the user's mailbox.
In which case I'll just note that a DL380 with 2 CPUs @ 3GHz running Windows is almost as fast as my 1 CPU Athlon/1500 running a Unix.
I hate when people talk like that, pretending acts like some sort of turbo for their computer... having used both windows and linux [GUI mode] on low (low) end hardware, they're both slow... I don't care what OS you are using, your Athlon running at 1.5ghz is not going to start showing up on the worlds Top 100 super computer list...
I'll bet you always cheat when you play computer games, huh?
;-)
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The simplest legislative solution would be to legalize the killing of spammers. I envision an eviscerated corpse, strangled with networking cable, with a can of spam kicked into it's mouth, the teeth smashed to shards.
Wouldn't be too much fun if they fought back though, eh?
All it really validates is that most consumers are fools and will fall for any hype the Apple marketing department throws at them. If people were intelligent enough to do a little research, they could find that buying a full-blown iPod for only 50 dollars more would be a much wiser decision, space wise, or another portable mp3 player entirely, rather than shelling out an insane amount of money for an Apple iPod that is shiny, pretty, and has "cool" commercials...
Right... because looking just a little to the right on apple.com to see the bigger iPod for $50 bucks more is beyond most "foolish" consumers... I think someone else's post hit the nail on the head here perfectly: That to us geeks "oh! you get more space for only 50 bucks!" it makes sense, but to the consumer, they see they can put like 2 solid days of music on it, and its smaller, and comes in colors! My father owns one (bought a mini the first day it came out), and he understands the concept of a gigabyte, and he also understood the concept of "50 dollars cheaper, and still holds more music than he needs it to, and is incredibly small" And the best part? It Syncs with iTunes, so songs purchased off of their go straight to the iPod, instead of having to burn to CD then re-ripping (As I have to do, I have one of these, its great for my car, but it doesn't hold as much)
I would have to agree with you, it sucks that I have to have 5 different programs scanning for things all the time, instead of one... On the other hand, At least I get the peace of mind that one program hasn't been tripped up. On my parents machine, I would also like to note that every Anti-virus/spyware program was disabled, and either would not run or would not update... so go figure (had to boot into safe mode and remove it all myself, took way too long)
C. Ad-aware does as well as an automated tool can do (hopefully), but it cannot kill the latest spyware variant, the automatic cloning program. These programs are scheduled to make multiple copies of themselves with different names and be deposited in different directories and then look out for each other. Should any one of them disappear, the others will quickly clone and replace the missing file and launch it again. Further, they incessantly monitor Windows Registry activity, and as soon as their 'autostart' (in one of the 'Run' keys) is removed, they will immediately replace it. As Ad-aware cannot deal with spyware that fights back like this, Ad-aware cannot defeat them.
Dear god, I came across this a month ago, last time I cleaned out my parent's computer. I have never seen anything fight back like that in my life. Also, windows programs like msconfig, and notepad were over-written by some program (couldn't determinei what it was) that seemed to reinfect the computer. Really nasty stuff. I did manage to get it all off, but of course I check a week later and theres tons of spyware back on it *sigh*. Luckily not the same stuff though.
I know parent are kidding (or at least, exagereting), but if MS-AntiVirus(c) existed now, sure it could detect the win2000-source.zip "virus" and call home or delete it.
That is an interesting (yet scary) idea. I personally don't think it'll end up that way (think back to the CPU ID numbers the P3 had, and the problems that caused). If Microsoft tried to do anything like that, you can be guaranteed everyone and their grandmother would be up-in-arms (at least, one can hope).
So wouldn't self-modifying code still be A-ok, as it could do that sort of thing? (Ask the OS to set it executable, that is)
If I read the article correctly, couldn't the program itself just mark that section of memmory "execute"? (Or do programs not have that capability?). In a buffer overrun situation, the attacker can't actually execute any code (on one of these processors) so they could never change the section of memmory they are over-writing to "executable" but surely a program could (?)
These people STILL infected with MyDoom don't know the first thing about computer security. They would be MUCH MUCH better off with a Mac than with windows. All they probably do anyway is chat with their little friends on AIM and check their webmail.
And that's great, until Macintosh's become popular enough for viruses to be written for them (at which point its going to be a massacre). A guy I work with owns a Macintosh, and he brags about how he doesn't need to run any antivirus program and how he can open all attachments. If a virus like MyDoom was created for the Macintosh, how much you want to bet my coworker (and people like him) would get infected right away, because they aren't using common sense? Windows may be buggy, and windows may have a lot of security holes, but in this case, MyDoom does not take advantage of any of them MyDoom takes advantage of the traditional weakest link in any security system, people.
Don't make the rest of the population pay for bad economics and planning.
What bad economics and planning would that be? Creating a product and then selling it? The only reason the entertainment industry is having trouble right now is because their product is easy to steal! If it wasn't, they would be in the green right now. As I see it, downloading an MP3 is like shoplifting. No, it isn't a big deal, but it's still breaking the law, and wrong.
I'd defintely have to agree with you. Owning a Tivo myself, I also make use of the "thumb" buttons to rate each show I watch, on the [doubtful] chance that it'll effect something somewhere. When you think about it, if you aren't a Nelson family, then you really almost have no voice on what is on television. This way, at least the stations know what you like/dislike. Also, it isn't like they didn't say they didn't track anybody, just that they won't personally identify you.
In my experience personal experience with Dish Network in New Jersey, outages are extremely rare, and only usually occur during heavy precipitation. In the last year, I'd say I've probably lost my service about 4 times, which isn't too bad considering cable tv goes down just about as often (cable is just cable in the last mile after all, they use sattelites too). That being said, if you plan on having a ton of TVs in your house, I'd go for cable. Probably the biggest problem with satelite is that (for the Dish Network, anyway) you are limited to a certain amount of TVs per satelite, which sucks if you want to have more than 4 televisions.
You've worked with some crap PCs in that case. These days, 2.4GHz and 256meg of RAM is pretty-much entry level, but XP will fly on that sort of spec.
WinXP runs acceptably on my 1.2ghz T-bird (I don't spend too much time waiting) and with all the eye candy turned off, runs fine on my P2 380mhz Thinkpad.
That being said, I really wish I had an "entry level" PC =-P