Well, you could just pop in a Windows 2000 CD and bypass that.
Also, I've got an XP cd (early one) and it works just fine to boot into the recovery console. In fact, I used it to delete my registry a couple of days ago.
Or if the worm decides to go after those as well. Sorta like how windows stores a 'fresh' registry in %WINDIR%\repair, which would be useful until virus writers decided to infect that too.
It might be "real damage" in some cases, but it seems to be quite stupid. According to Symantec's bulliten -
"Attempts to overwrite 128 sectors in a random location of one of the first eight physical hard drives with data from memory. If the randomly picked physical hard disk does not exist, the worm simply continues."
Given the amount of sectors on a hard-drive, how long will it take for the worm to randomly choose the boot sectors on the boot disk?
Some operating systems provide a lot of features for the visually-impaired - eg. Windows (XP) has magnification, text to speech, alternative input, etc. Mac (OS X) has magnigication (which magnifies the whole screen and uses the cursor to also move around your 'viewing window'), text to speech, high contrast, etc.
Sometimes even this violates the license agreement.
For example, when installing the JDK on FreeBSD, you are required to manually download and retrieve several files from the sun and freebsd java (patch) sites. This is because sun forbids binary redistribution (even a script downloading them would be redistribution because the user in basically unaware of a lot of factors), also, it gives them an opportunity to force you to register and provide the information to hunt you down if you break the agreement.
I know what you mean, it seems that only Apple has this problem with discounts. Last time I went to buy an ibook, it was around christmas, and I knew that I wasn't going to find any discounts for it. So, I looked for the non-monentary things that I could get with it. I actually wound up getting triple fly-buys points (rewards program in New Zealand) with it, which is probably the best deal I could've gotten.
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I think you can pick an example a bit closer to home with that analogy...
Computer power buttons - Short period = sleep, Long period = Hard off.
If they're still using Windows 9x that is.
I thought Microsoft provided that as a 'feature' on all accounts?
But as soon as @gmail.com becomes a household-term (sorta like how @hotmail.com is with most teenagers), that problem will be fairly rare.
:P
I would've liked to see @goomail.com though
And the mac players just sit, giving the evil looks out.
Ditto, I love wordpress on my site. It's very easy to setup and use and nice to hack at for any features that you may want.
Well, you could just pop in a Windows 2000 CD and bypass that.
Also, I've got an XP cd (early one) and it works just fine to boot into the recovery console. In fact, I used it to delete my registry a couple of days ago.
Nope, that's probably something else since you can reboot fine and this worm doesn't try to do any dodgy things with the memory.
I'd get an AV checker in there though.
Hmmm... IO, what could that acronym possibly stand for?
I think it removes any superiority-complex that windows has, resulting in the loss of any self-worth as it realises how crap it really is.
Only the people with the firewall help to spread it, since they have the only machines that are receptive to the worm.
Or if the worm decides to go after those as well.
Sorta like how windows stores a 'fresh' registry in %WINDIR%\repair, which would be useful until virus writers decided to infect that too.
Now, if there was only a worm that found a way to turn off processor fans.
Although, that wouldn't be sludge, it'd be ash.
"All computers", you sure?
I was thinking the same thing - the worm sends itself to 20,000 randomly generated IP addresses (each cycle).
Or if NTFS, you can try to boot with Win2k or WinXP in recovery console and FIXBOOT/FIXMBR.
Strange, the last time I used them it was the equivalent to FUCKBOOT/FUCKMBR.
It might be "real damage" in some cases, but it seems to be quite stupid. According to Symantec's bulliten -
"Attempts to overwrite 128 sectors in a random location of one of the first eight physical hard drives with data from memory. If the randomly picked physical hard disk does not exist, the worm simply continues."
Given the amount of sectors on a hard-drive, how long will it take for the worm to randomly choose the boot sectors on the boot disk?
Some operating systems provide a lot of features for the visually-impaired -
eg.
Windows (XP) has magnification, text to speech, alternative input, etc.
Mac (OS X) has magnigication (which magnifies the whole screen and uses the cursor to also move around your 'viewing window'), text to speech, high contrast, etc.
They use sizeof and then count the number of ints, floats, chars, etc. they are using to find out how much ram their program will suck ;)
Or you could just password the room (it's been too long for me, so I've forgotten the mode for this, but I quick google search should turn it up)
This could be used more of as a tool by counterfeiters to check if their bills look good enough!
And there go all of their customers...
Studios will argue that one whole frame out of 130,000 is "substantial."
I *think* that (in NZ at least) there is an allowance for how much of a work you are allowed to copy or redistribute without it being 'substantial'
Although, I'd be very pissed off if they would start shutting down sites because of that. I'd have to download the whole thing then!
Technically, they are not distributing it, they're just connecting to their FTP dumpsite to grab CD2
Sometimes even this violates the license agreement.
For example, when installing the JDK on FreeBSD, you are required to manually download and retrieve several files from the sun and freebsd java (patch) sites.
This is because sun forbids binary redistribution (even a script downloading them would be redistribution because the user in basically unaware of a lot of factors), also, it gives them an opportunity to force you to register and provide the information to hunt you down if you break the agreement.
I know what you mean, it seems that only Apple has this problem with discounts.
Last time I went to buy an ibook, it was around christmas, and I knew that I wasn't going to find any discounts for it. So, I looked for the non-monentary things that I could get with it.
I actually wound up getting triple fly-buys points (rewards program in New Zealand) with it, which is probably the best deal I could've gotten.