Okay, you have a file, called trojan.exe on the webserver. You make a link in the html to link to "trojan.exe". Then you configure the web-server to tell the web browser that the mime-type (a way to indentify the content of the file) of trojan.exe is "text/html". IE sees "text/html" and says "ahh! I know what to do! Open this!", thinking it's a webpage. IE then looks at the file and says "ahh! This file ends in.exe! I know how to open this!" and executes the file. The user is thusly infected;)
Of course, there is no prompt: who wants to see a prompt every time they navigate to another page on the web? And who wants to see a prompt every time they double-click an executable file in Explorer?
The Curies died as a result of their exposure to radiation.
WRONG.
Pierre Curie was run over by a horse-drawn wagon on April 19, 1906, although Marie Curie did die of leukemia on July 4, 1934 at 66 years old, having played with radioactive materials for over 50 years.
Wow. That is cool. I wish I could mod this up, but I've already posted in this thread (I wonder why... lol). Still, a 20% error rate is pretty darned good.
Interesting. My tape player doesn't support slow playback, but that would be trivial to do on the computer. That would take two hours a tape then, but might be viable.
Actually, I am a college student hired to transcode these tapes at $40 CAN a tape, which at 4 hours a tape is just a little above minimum wage where I live. I want to make more than minimum wage, thus my desire to automate things somewhat:)
Again, my intent was to have the machine do the first pass, then I could listen and correct errors as I went. Why? I can type continuously at about 70 wpm, but people speak around 150 to 200. However, if I have a 90% accurate copy, that means I only need to type 15 to 20 wpm to keep up, correcting on a single pass, thus reducing my time per tape to the duration of the tape.
MacOSX keeps on failing because the OS mounts the CD before we finish
ripping it... or something else. Please, test test test the code, and
report your findings. Pretty please. I have not been able to make it work
with the reports I have received.
I'm replying to this at the top so that it is seen: reporters are starting to get things right! In this article at the CBC, the reporter states:
The mass-mailing worm, which is programmed to stop working after Jan. 28, affects most computers with Windows operating systems. It does not work on machines that use the Macintosh or Linux operating systems.
Nice to see people with a clue! I guess QNX is still vulnerable though;P
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What? I think she's pretty cute!
Yeah, silly newb! Leave making funny comments to us more experienced slashdotters with much lower uids!
No, but I used to hunt oxen. Quite tasty.
Okay, you have a file, called trojan.exe on the webserver. You make a link in the html to link to "trojan.exe". Then you configure the web-server to tell the web browser that the mime-type (a way to indentify the content of the file) of trojan.exe is "text/html". IE sees "text/html" and says "ahh! I know what to do! Open this!", thinking it's a webpage. IE then looks at the file and says "ahh! This file ends in .exe! I know how to open this!" and executes the file. The user is thusly infected ;)
Of course, there is no prompt: who wants to see a prompt every time they navigate to another page on the web? And who wants to see a prompt every time they double-click an executable file in Explorer?
If I had mod points, I'd help!
No thanks, I don't want EMACS polluting [i]my[/i] kernel!
WRONG.
Pierre Curie was run over by a horse-drawn wagon on April 19, 1906, although Marie Curie did die of leukemia on July 4, 1934 at 66 years old, having played with radioactive materials for over 50 years.
http://www.nobel.se/physics/articles/curie/
That was the lamest joke I've made yet this year -- I can't believe that was modded up. lol.
Sending smoke singals with cigars is still legal!
Thanks! I will!
The # is rarely used in those systems, so I just hit that a few times. Works well.
Actually, the Dvorak layout is something I've been wanting to learn for several years now. I'm considering learning it for transcoding the tapes.
Wow. That is cool. I wish I could mod this up, but I've already posted in this thread (I wonder why... lol). Still, a 20% error rate is pretty darned good.
Thanks for the link! I shall try it.
Interesting. My tape player doesn't support slow playback, but that would be trivial to do on the computer. That would take two hours a tape then, but might be viable.
Actually, I am a college student hired to transcode these tapes at $40 CAN a tape, which at 4 hours a tape is just a little above minimum wage where I live. I want to make more than minimum wage, thus my desire to automate things somewhat :)
Again, my intent was to have the machine do the first pass, then I could listen and correct errors as I went. Why? I can type continuously at about 70 wpm, but people speak around 150 to 200. However, if I have a 90% accurate copy, that means I only need to type 15 to 20 wpm to keep up, correcting on a single pass, thus reducing my time per tape to the duration of the tape.
From the front page of the site:
I'm replying to this at the top so that it is seen: reporters are starting to get things right! In this article at the CBC, the reporter states:
Nice to see people with a clue! I guess QNX is still vulnerable though ;P
Guess the Rumours are True.
You are definitely the funniest, and one of the wisest people on slashdot. I wish I had the honour of knowing you.
Real money is made in business. Business always controls the consumer. Business doesn't care how much your rent is.
Just because it's on CNN doesn't mean it's true either.
I would have recommend a perennial favourite, The Matrix, but the sequels ruined it. Sigh :(
It's not my fault she's 48. Sigh.
Actually, it's true. http://www.urbanlegends.com/legal/speeding_ticket_ pictures.html.