A default install of XP will autostart (i.e, autorun.inf) any external drive when it's plugged in. In theory, a program shouldn't run automatically without user intervention. You should get that menu offering to play music, copy files etc.
In practice, it's easy to get an app to run invisibly. If someone is trojaning OEM drives, Microsoft's choice of defaulting to the insecure autorun mode means a lot of people will be infected.
My Sony-Ericsson M600i has a single-key unlock which works the same way. It's a non-protruding button on the side, and has never woken up while in my pocket, unlike some of my two-button-push WinCE phones. Of course, they'd often switch on randomly anyway, but that's another story.
Oh for fuck's sake, will you astroturfers please just give up?
Last week's fault log:
E6300 Workstation, 2GB, Intel 82545, XPP SP2, fully patched;
Used "Open Recent" in SoundBooth to reopen 90MB.wav file from the server. Screen blanked twice and computer rebooted without warning. About 10 minutes editing in Media Studio Pro lost.
IPS Dual Opteron, 2GB Reg ECC, Quadro FX5500, XPP SP2, fully patched;
Set to batch convert client-supplied video overnight. Computer was found at login prompt in the morning and only 110 minutes of the batch completed. On the second attempt, the computer became unresponsive at the 110 minute mark, remained unresponsive for several minutes, then reset. Decided that section of video could be abandoned. Remainder of video batch processed ok
HP NC6400 laptop, 1GB, XP SP2, fully patched;
Running custom frame capture app overnight unattended. Capture had failed after about 4 hours, Error message popups every 2 seconds "{Delayed Write Failed} Windows was unable to save all the data for the file . The data has been lost." Computer hangs on reboot and has to be hard reset. Rebooting stopped popups, and laptop seems to work normally. A second attempt the following night worked.
XP may be fine if you don't use it, but it's fragile when you put it under load.
You just have to look at our own history of contact between various cultures to figure that out.
The last major effort trying to find an intelligent being that was only posited to exist was way more expensive and ended up precipitating the dark ages.
That doesn't mean this one will, nor does it mean we can extrapolate that aliens are likely to conquer us. Given the distances involved, communication and exchange of ideas would be far more likely than physical contact.
If that's the case, hostilities would be about as violent as a Slashdot flamefest, and about as interesting.
I tend to think of SELinux as a reference implementation rather than a working tool.
It IS possible to use it though, and in fact, I have it set up on my CentOS server here, but for desktops, a reimplementation like AppArmour is more appropriate.
I would like to write some software for my own phone (it runs Windows Mobile 5) but for all of my searching, I can't find anything on programming it for free/inexpensively.
I wonder whether you're being honest. I've used several Windows Mobile phones and can't think of a single crash
On the other hand, I KNOW you are lying.
I've used and developed for handheld computers since the original Palm Pilot 1000, and still have the first 1000 I ever bought. I've owned or been issued handhelds running just about every system available, and I can state without a doubt that Windows Mobile is easily the most unreliable.
If you haven't had a crash or lockup on yours, you haven't been using it.
I happily pay an extra cents per KWH to know I'm not dumping tons of CO2 into the atmosphere.
Sadly, mining the uranium that powers those reactors is a very fuel-intensive process, and results in CO2 emissions of about 30% of that of a conventional generator. That proportion will get rapidly worse as the easy to obtain uranium currently being mined becomes more scarce.
Disposing of the waste is likely to generate even more CO2, though that's a hidden cost for most reactors.
Microsoft has a great share of the mobile market and their software is actually quite good nowadays.
Nice astroturf attempt, but too many people here have tried to use Windows Mobile handhelds.
Their software is not good. It's not stable. It's resource hungry. The interface is intrusive and ugly. The only advantage for users of the platform is the development tools available.
If Palm hadn't dropped the ball, Google might have had a fight on their hands. As it is, the field's open.
As an ex-user of Windows Mobile and now on Symbian, I'd say the market is still wide open for someone who can do it well.
WinCE is still crash-prone, clumsy and ugly on a handheld. Symbian is more stable and looks better, but still has glitches, and is much harder to develop for. Apple iPhone's locked down nature isn't suited to creating a new mobile software ecosystem, so if Google gets this right, they may have a new wave to ride.
Commonwealth Edison aka Exelon have received heavy subsidies, including deferred taxes, artificially low limits on liability, fuel fabrication write-offs, nationalised disposal and management of waste and artificially low decommissioning costs. In addition, Commonwealth Edison's customers now pay the highest electric bills in the Midwest.
Yeah, I'm 170cm (5'7") and when I was playing football (Aussie Rules) weighed about 85-90kg (190-200 lbs). I have a very stocky shape - "built like a brick shithouse" was the expression often used...
According to BMI I was overweight, but skin fold tests and bioelectrical impedance consistently showed I was carrying barely enough body fat to be healthy.
Improving street cars will do little to reduce pollution.
Improving public transport will reduce pollution, congestion and accidents. Sadly, before we can improve public transport, we'll need to change attitudes like yours.
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In practice, it's easy to get an app to run invisibly. If someone is trojaning OEM drives, Microsoft's choice of defaulting to the insecure autorun mode means a lot of people will be infected.
Nope. It was a RED ring of teleportation.
They just stopped working and went away.
My Sony-Ericsson M600i has a single-key unlock which works the same way. It's a non-protruding button on the side, and has never woken up while in my pocket, unlike some of my two-button-push WinCE phones. Of course, they'd often switch on randomly anyway, but that's another story.
So are most imaginary things.
It can't be music.
The RIAA hasn't tried to extort money for it.
Last week's fault log:
- E6300 Workstation, 2GB, Intel 82545, XPP SP2, fully patched;
.wav file from the server. Screen blanked twice and computer rebooted without warning. About 10 minutes editing in Media Studio Pro lost.
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IPS Dual Opteron, 2GB Reg ECC, Quadro FX5500, XPP SP2, fully patched;
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HP NC6400 laptop, 1GB, XP SP2, fully patched;
XP may be fine if you don't use it, but it's fragile when you put it under load.Used "Open Recent" in SoundBooth to reopen 90MB
Set to batch convert client-supplied video overnight. Computer was found at login prompt in the morning and only 110 minutes of the batch completed. On the second attempt, the computer became unresponsive at the 110 minute mark, remained unresponsive for several minutes, then reset. Decided that section of video could be abandoned. Remainder of video batch processed ok
Running custom frame capture app overnight unattended. Capture had failed after about 4 hours, Error message popups every 2 seconds "{Delayed Write Failed} Windows was unable to save all the data for the file . The data has been lost." Computer hangs on reboot and has to be hard reset. Rebooting stopped popups, and laptop seems to work normally. A second attempt the following night worked.
The average monthly income there is $160.00.
Pretend you're a Microsoft distributor selling boxed versions of Vista and Office, and guess how much profit you'd be making.
Are Amateuts some kind of Aleut?
If they are, I suppose it make sense for them to buy their people in graphics shops. Warmer than an igloo, that's for sure.
The last major effort trying to find an intelligent being that was only posited to exist was way more expensive and ended up precipitating the dark ages.
That doesn't mean this one will, nor does it mean we can extrapolate that aliens are likely to conquer us. Given the distances involved, communication and exchange of ideas would be far more likely than physical contact.
If that's the case, hostilities would be about as violent as a Slashdot flamefest, and about as interesting.
I tend to think of SELinux as a reference implementation rather than a working tool.
It IS possible to use it though, and in fact, I have it set up on my CentOS server here, but for desktops, a reimplementation like AppArmour is more appropriate.
If you decide to try SELinux, this presentation http://people.redhat.com/dwalsh/SELinux/Presentations/ManageRHEL5.pdf [Warning: PDF] was what got my head around it.
SELinux isn't really appropriate to a general-purpose home computer, which is what these botnet operators target.
If you want something simple, try http://www.grandasoft.com/Products/XSDesigner/default.aspx
On the other hand, I KNOW you are lying.
I've used and developed for handheld computers since the original Palm Pilot 1000, and still have the first 1000 I ever bought. I've owned or been issued handhelds running just about every system available, and I can state without a doubt that Windows Mobile is easily the most unreliable.
If you haven't had a crash or lockup on yours, you haven't been using it.
Sadly, mining the uranium that powers those reactors is a very fuel-intensive process, and results in CO2 emissions of about 30% of that of a conventional generator. That proportion will get rapidly worse as the easy to obtain uranium currently being mined becomes more scarce.
Disposing of the waste is likely to generate even more CO2, though that's a hidden cost for most reactors.
Nice astroturf attempt, but too many people here have tried to use Windows Mobile handhelds.
Their software is not good. It's not stable. It's resource hungry. The interface is intrusive and ugly. The only advantage for users of the platform is the development tools available.
If Palm hadn't dropped the ball, Google might have had a fight on their hands. As it is, the field's open.
As an ex-user of Windows Mobile and now on Symbian, I'd say the market is still wide open for someone who can do it well.
WinCE is still crash-prone, clumsy and ugly on a handheld. Symbian is more stable and looks better, but still has glitches, and is much harder to develop for. Apple iPhone's locked down nature isn't suited to creating a new mobile software ecosystem, so if Google gets this right, they may have a new wave to ride.
Commonwealth Edison aka Exelon have received heavy subsidies, including deferred taxes, artificially low limits on liability, fuel fabrication write-offs, nationalised disposal and management of waste and artificially low decommissioning costs. In addition, Commonwealth Edison's customers now pay the highest electric bills in the Midwest.
It'd be better to placate the market first.
Nuclear power's only an option when it's heavily subsidised. At the moment, it's way too expensive to be a serious option.
Being irritating enough to drive you from your computer isn't normally considered a feature.
Or were you referring to something other than UAC?
Only 'cause that's more common than an unplugged A/V lead...
In a very clever move by Microsoft, the indicator showing the console is on standby will be a lit red ring on the front of the unit...
Yeah, I'm 170cm (5'7") and when I was playing football (Aussie Rules) weighed about 85-90kg (190-200 lbs). I have a very stocky shape - "built like a brick shithouse" was the expression often used...
According to BMI I was overweight, but skin fold tests and bioelectrical impedance consistently showed I was carrying barely enough body fat to be healthy.
I've always thought Symbian should merge with Sybian.
You'd get a phone that'd be a pleasure to receive calls on.
The average annual salary in Nigeria is $160.00
Improving public transport will reduce pollution, congestion and accidents. Sadly, before we can improve public transport, we'll need to change attitudes like yours.