I love the way Google maps obviates the need for me to have Autoroute. I know I don't use all of Autoroute's features, I just need maps and directions. Google maps now does that for me, for free, from anywhere.
As a matter of fact, I do care - a lot - about what happens to my country, so I sincerely thank you for the information.
I can well believe that Blunkett signed up. I can assure you it didn't make headline or even sub-headline news here. Perhaps it was smuggled out on a day that was good to "bury bad news"
> Most worms and spyware can be eliminated just by not using default ms mail client and browser.
I hate the use of the word "just" in contexts like this. You, me and the rest of the/.'ers know about alternatives, but the great unwashed masses don't know and don't care. Sadly, the malware they will [eventually] acquire won't just affect *them*, it'll affect all of us - bandwidth consumption, spam, anonymous proxies, DDoS attacks etc.
> I had a WinXP SP1 box on a dialup for a two years without any patches and the only worm i got was msblaster
and
> Windows 2k/XP is pretty stable and pretty secure if you know what you're doing and keep it up to date
So which is it? Bragging about "only" getting the blaster worm as you didn't update your box, or advocating keeping the box up-to-date?
> Most spyware, virii and malware requires user input in some way (atleast if you dont use ActiveX, outlook and so on).
Again, the average user doesn't even know what ActiveX is, never mind why or how to disable it. Many corporations absolutely require the use of Outlook to gain access to their Exchange servers.
> 90% of the malware situation is located behind the keyboard
I bet I can browse to the same sites as the thousands of people whose broken ActiveX allowed unauthorised software installations. Difference is, my computer won't have installed the malicious software.
Users certainly *can* be blamed for doing things wrong, but the purpetrators of malware are constantly looking for ways of sneaking their crapware in without the user noticing or having to acknowledge its installation.
I nearly pissed myself laughing when I saw that scene in Ireland (working for Netscape, pre-AOL days [sob]) - which wasn't bleeped out. When I saw the same episode in the UK, it was all bleepy:(
Mrs. Doyle - It was a bit much for me, Father. Feck this, and feck that. Ted - Yes, Mrs. Doyle. Mrs. Doyle - Ya big bastard. Oh, dreadful language. You big hairy arse, you big fecker. Fierce stuff. And of course, the 'F' word, Father. The bad 'F' word, worse than feck. You know the one I mean. Ted - Yes I do, Mrs. Doyle. Mrs. Doyle - F you. F your f'in wife. Oh, I don't know why they have to use language like that. I'll stick this f'in pitch fork up your hole, oh that was another one. Oh yeah. Ted - I see what you mean, Mrs. Doyle. Mrs. Doyle - Bastard this and bastard that. You can't move for the bastards in her novels. It's wall to wall bastards. Ted - Is it Mrs. Doyle! Anyway. Mrs. Doyle - You bastard, you fecker, you bollox. Get your bollox out of my face. Ted - Yes, you just go and prepare for the nuns. Mrs. Doyle - Ride me sideways was another one.
My firewall port-forwards TCP/5500 to my desktop PC, where UltraVNC view is running in "Listen mode".
The rel just clicks on "start", then "remote control - bern". Works every time.
Also, I have a few clients/rels where I have an TCP-based OpenVPN tunnel (manual server at my end, service-based client at theirs). I start the server end as/when I know they need assistance. The UltraVNC connection is then "... -connect 192.168.1.2", where 192.168.1.2 is my end of the OpenVPN tunnel. Again, works perfectly every time.
It's not always that easy. Palm, Sage, QuickBooks and LaserForm are four business apps that I can name off the top of my head that require manual intervention as they assume elevated privileges will be held after being installed.
Sure, you and I will go to the trouble to work out what registry and NTFS permissions need to be modified, but the average Joe will simply run everything as administrator.
Slashdot Mirror
Up until recently, it was available from Novell directly for free, but they seem to have taken it away.
Google around for it and download it from a respectable source (plenty of universities have it on their web servers).
I've used it within Windows explorer, with RoboCopy, with Notepad++ etc. without glitches.
As a bonus, it works using https:/// URLs too, so you can be a bit more confident about moving stuff across t'internet.
AND converse!
I love the way Google maps obviates the need for me to have Autoroute. I know I don't use all of Autoroute's features, I just need maps and directions. Google maps now does that for me, for free, from anywhere.
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/05/04/225 7229&tid=185&tid=218
Sounds like a Shelbyville idea to me.
I can well believe that Blunkett signed up. I can assure you it didn't make headline or even sub-headline news here. Perhaps it was smuggled out on a day that was good to "bury bad news"
Don't worry, it is.
"Insightful" - my arse.
Not all slashdotters are American, or are in America.
Same goes for the "politics.slashdot.org" masthead. Stars and stripes for an EU (Mandelson/Microsoft) story? FFS.
http://www.microsoft.com/exchange/downloads/2003/e xbpa/default.mspx
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/tools/mb sahome.mspx
> CVS pharmacy
So the till was the "cvs co"?
Thankyou very much, I'll be here all week.
Ouch! The punnage!
It's "peek", not "peak", ffs.
OK, I'll bite.
/.'ers know about alternatives, but the great unwashed masses don't know and don't care. Sadly, the malware they will [eventually] acquire won't just affect *them*, it'll affect all of us - bandwidth consumption, spam, anonymous proxies, DDoS attacks etc.
> Most worms and spyware can be eliminated just by not using default ms mail client and browser.
I hate the use of the word "just" in contexts like this. You, me and the rest of the
> I had a WinXP SP1 box on a dialup for a two years without any patches and the only worm i got was msblaster
and
> Windows 2k/XP is pretty stable and pretty secure if you know what you're doing and keep it up to date
So which is it? Bragging about "only" getting the blaster worm as you didn't update your box, or advocating keeping the box up-to-date?
> Most spyware, virii and malware requires user input in some way (atleast if you dont use ActiveX, outlook and so on).
Again, the average user doesn't even know what ActiveX is, never mind why or how to disable it. Many corporations absolutely require the use of Outlook to gain access to their Exchange servers.
> 90% of the malware situation is located behind the keyboard
I bet I can browse to the same sites as the thousands of people whose broken ActiveX allowed unauthorised software installations. Difference is, my computer won't have installed the malicious software.
Users certainly *can* be blamed for doing things wrong, but the purpetrators of malware are constantly looking for ways of sneaking their crapware in without the user noticing or having to acknowledge its installation.
I'd love to see something technical here.
gad.
When come back, bring pie! We love http://b3ta.com/
Does NetCraft confirm it?
Oh the humanity! I love the way that headline has "your" instead of "you're". Woo and yay!
Doesn't have to be mobile-optimised, just mobile-friendly.
I nearly pissed myself laughing when I saw that scene in Ireland (working for Netscape, pre-AOL days [sob]) - which wasn't bleeped out. When I saw the same episode in the UK, it was all bleepy :(
Mrs. Doyle - It was a bit much for me, Father. Feck this, and feck that.
Ted - Yes, Mrs. Doyle.
Mrs. Doyle - Ya big bastard. Oh, dreadful language. You big hairy arse, you big fecker. Fierce stuff. And of course, the 'F' word, Father. The bad 'F' word, worse than feck. You know the one I mean.
Ted - Yes I do, Mrs. Doyle.
Mrs. Doyle - F you. F your f'in wife. Oh, I don't know why they have to use language like that. I'll stick this f'in pitch fork up your hole, oh that was another one. Oh yeah.
Ted - I see what you mean, Mrs. Doyle.
Mrs. Doyle - Bastard this and bastard that. You can't move for the bastards in her novels. It's wall to wall bastards.
Ted - Is it Mrs. Doyle! Anyway.
Mrs. Doyle - You bastard, you fecker, you bollox. Get your bollox out of my face.
Ted - Yes, you just go and prepare for the nuns.
Mrs. Doyle - Ride me sideways was another one.
I prefer to set up a shortcut on the start menu for my rels where the command is:
"c:\program files\ultravnc\winvnc.exe" -connect my.dyndns.hostname
My firewall port-forwards TCP/5500 to my desktop PC, where UltraVNC view is running in "Listen mode".
The rel just clicks on "start", then "remote control - bern". Works every time.
Also, I have a few clients/rels where I have an TCP-based OpenVPN tunnel (manual server at my end, service-based client at theirs). I start the server end as/when I know they need assistance. The UltraVNC connection is then "... -connect 192.168.1.2", where 192.168.1.2 is my end of the OpenVPN tunnel. Again, works perfectly every time.
Amfibians, surely?
Sure, you and I will go to the trouble to work out what registry and NTFS permissions need to be modified, but the average Joe will simply run everything as administrator.