At first glance, to me this seems straight forward to fix.
1. Go into the BIOS, confirm the boot order is Optical Drive first (very important!). Perhaps even go to the extend not including the HDD in the boot order, if possible.
2. Boot from Windows Recovery CD, clean the MBR
3. Boot from a AV Boot CD (plenty of free ones avaible) to run an offline scan to, um, root out the infection. The AV CD may also be able to fix the MBR.
4. Profit?
Problems with above are sourcing clean Recovery CD and AV CD, and that not all machines have an Optical drive to use (e.g. netbook), so you may need to rely on boot from USB, but again that needs the boot order setting correctly to boot from USB. Hardware write protected USB drives are useful here.
And "Joe Six-pack" may not have the resources to be able to do the above for himself.
I've been using the same Nokia M1122 for just under 7 years for my ADSL connection. Once I had the latest firmware loaded on it (within a year of buying it), and whilst I had it attached to a UPS, I think it managed to overrun its uptime counter (~160 days IIRC) 3 times, before I started using bittorrent - then the 1024 entry or so NAPT table would get overrun, and cause a reboot. After limiting the number of bittorrent connections, a lot fewer spontaneous reboots occurred.
Then again, the Nokia M1122 was a NZ$700 ADSL router in 2001.
And with ADSL2+ finally being delivered with Local Loop Unbundling in my area, I'll have to move onto another router so I can "feel the speed" - probably with the associated "crashes" to match.
There is no need to install the SATA drivers when installing from a Windows XP CD when:
you've just got a single boot HDD plugged into the mobo Chipset SATA headers
and since you've got a single HDD, you've disabled the RAID configration in the BIOS (which is the default I've seen on the hardware I've used).
and the HDD is BLANK i.e. no prior partitions (having an exiting partition table can cause problems - which is often the problem with installing to an SATA drive)
Then XP installs just fine, after which you load the Chipset drivers, Audio Drivers, CPU Driver update, Graphics card driver - all of which you can should either find on the CD-ROM that came with the machine / Motherboard - or you can be organised and download the latest ones for that machine/motherboard ahead of time.
P.S. expecting an OS that was released in 2001 (or perhaps August 2004) to support hardware only available after that time is a tad unfair.
Short Answer: Move along, nothing to see here, it's an unsubstantiated rumour.
Long Answer:
From a New Zealand Herald article, somewhat more authorative on what's going on in New Zealand than CNN.
Text language risky move in NCEA examinations
Friday November 10, 2006
By Claire Trevett
Students are being warned not to use cellphone texting abbreviations in NCEA exams after reports suggested the shorthand was to be allowed.
The New Zealand Qualifications Authority is dashing media reports that students could use text abbreviations in exams without penalty if their answers otherwise showed the required understanding.
...
Read the article for more. And get it while it's hot, as NZ Herald only allows access to non-subscribers for a week.
HP have the best Array controllers that I've worked with. Could you recommend an array controller that allows you to Migrate RAID types, expand arrays and extend Logical disks, from IBM or DELL? No? Shame, seems like I'm stuck recommending HP gear then...
On a related note, Outlook and Exchange can handle 800MB+ e-mails. I know. I've seen the result - the (multiple) returned NDRs stopped the exchange server when it ran out of disk space...
I still don't understand how that Marketing drone managed to put that e-mail together.
You've been reading Dr. David Pimentel's reports haven't you?
There's been debate over the methodology used by Pimentel in carrying out his calculations - he's goes in to such detail e.g. including the energy expeneded by the workers, and the energy to build the infrastrucutre to process the ethanol. And that method is not the standard method of calculating manufacturing efficiencies. Oh, and apparently he used out-of-date effiencies on the amount of fuel used in the equipment ('70s fuel efficiencies etc)
Apparently if the same methodology was applied to out-of-the ground fuels, it's a net looser too...
And how much is a net decrease in CO2 emmisions worth?
Maybe the Hemp vs Cotton Growers would be a better analogy...
IIRC - Hemp is a better fibre than cotton - at least FAR easier to grow, seeing as it grows like a weed (*cough* whoops, no pun intended). Which is why the cotton farmers "back then" didn't like it.
AMD have licensed the MMX, SSE, SSE2 and SSE3 (and other) x86 intruction set extensions from Intel and have functional implementations of those extensions in their various CPUs. This is so that AMDs CPUs are not placed at a disadvantage in the marketplace, and can compete in a level playing field, so for a program that uses MMX, SSE, SSE2 or SSE3, the program can use those extensions rather than emulating them.
Intel have a complier that makes use of those extension - but by default the compiled object code will only use the code path that implements those extensions if the object code is run on a Real Intel CPU - regardless of what instructions sets the CPU actually supports.
This is NOT about Intel supporting AMD's own extensions (3DNow!), or providing code that is optimised for the way the AMD CPUs actually carry out the instructions.
This is about a seemingly deliberate attempt by Intel to provide a compiler that only provides code that runs optimally on recent designs of their own CPU - at the expense of every other CPU design, even if those other designs support the same performance enhancing extensions that have been licensed from Intel!
It requires deliberate checks in the run time object code to detect what CPU the code is running on - but instead of querying the CPU for which extensions are supported, the complied object code is querying for the CPU for its make and model, which is a sub-optimal method of checking for supported extensions, when the CPU can tell you directly which ones are supported.
Which brings us up the point about Hanlons's Razor "Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity" . Either Intel's compier engineers are so incompetent as to use a clunky, unreliable method of CPU capabilty detection by CPU Make and model rather than the more elegant method of asking the CPU for its supported instruction sets, or the Intel Engineers are doing it through malice (or by Marketing Department Directive...).
In light of that, the outcome for Intel is not good - either their engineers are made to either look incompetent (I don't know about you, but I don't think that's good), or there Marketing Deparment are acting with malice against their competitors to mis-represent the performance of Intel CPUs with respect to its competitor's CPUs. (not good either)
Oh, and I noticed you'd posted as AC, but I've seen that on Slashdot if uncritical thinking goes unchallenged, it tends to run rampant...
... and the one unpatched IIS6 Vulnerablity is with regard to the "Remote IIS Administration" component, which is not installed by default. So a big whop-te-do there... (You have to go out of your way to install IIS, let alone the IIS remote administration components)
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"Charms" eh? I've seen enough roleplaying to know where this is going...
If the climate scientists don't know how the natural cycles work, how can they exclude natural cycles as the cause?
At first glance, to me this seems straight forward to fix. 1. Go into the BIOS, confirm the boot order is Optical Drive first (very important!). Perhaps even go to the extend not including the HDD in the boot order, if possible. 2. Boot from Windows Recovery CD, clean the MBR 3. Boot from a AV Boot CD (plenty of free ones avaible) to run an offline scan to, um, root out the infection. The AV CD may also be able to fix the MBR. 4. Profit? Problems with above are sourcing clean Recovery CD and AV CD, and that not all machines have an Optical drive to use (e.g. netbook), so you may need to rely on boot from USB, but again that needs the boot order setting correctly to boot from USB. Hardware write protected USB drives are useful here. And "Joe Six-pack" may not have the resources to be able to do the above for himself.
[Victim] Oh! Shiny!
*Victim is now a drooling idiot*
Or is my pattern-recognition generating a false positive?
I've been using the same Nokia M1122 for just under 7 years for my ADSL connection. Once I had the latest firmware loaded on it (within a year of buying it), and whilst I had it attached to a UPS, I think it managed to overrun its uptime counter (~160 days IIRC) 3 times, before I started using bittorrent - then the 1024 entry or so NAPT table would get overrun, and cause a reboot. After limiting the number of bittorrent connections, a lot fewer spontaneous reboots occurred.
Then again, the Nokia M1122 was a NZ$700 ADSL router in 2001.
And with ADSL2+ finally being delivered with Local Loop Unbundling in my area, I'll have to move onto another router so I can "feel the speed" - probably with the associated "crashes" to match.
Point taken!
ETA - probably.
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Merriam-Webster definition #3 is the modern common usage, which is somewhat annoying as the world originally meant something quite specific.
Oh well, I suppose it gives the future linguistic archaeologists or anthropologists something to keep them busy!
You mean "annihilate" not "decimate".
There is no need to install the SATA drivers when installing from a Windows XP CD when:
Then XP installs just fine, after which you load the Chipset drivers, Audio Drivers, CPU Driver update, Graphics card driver - all of which you can should either find on the CD-ROM that came with the machine / Motherboard - or you can be organised and download the latest ones for that machine/motherboard ahead of time.
P.S. expecting an OS that was released in 2001 (or perhaps August 2004) to support hardware only available after that time is a tad unfair.
No, you mean $100,001...
But what's a rounding error between friends?
Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon had that - as well as the hackers with the EMP deivce.
Short Answer: Move along, nothing to see here, it's an unsubstantiated rumour.
Long Answer:
From a New Zealand Herald article, somewhat more authorative on what's going on in New Zealand than CNN.
Text language risky move in NCEA examinations
Friday November 10, 2006
By Claire Trevett
Students are being warned not to use cellphone texting abbreviations in NCEA exams after reports suggested the shorthand was to be allowed.
The New Zealand Qualifications Authority is dashing media reports that students could use text abbreviations in exams without penalty if their answers otherwise showed the required understanding.
...
Read the article for more. And get it while it's hot, as NZ Herald only allows access to non-subscribers for a week.
HP have the best Array controllers that I've worked with. Could you recommend an array controller that allows you to Migrate RAID types, expand arrays and extend Logical disks, from IBM or DELL? No? Shame, seems like I'm stuck recommending HP gear then...
On a related note, Outlook and Exchange can handle 800MB+ e-mails. I know. I've seen the result - the (multiple) returned NDRs stopped the exchange server when it ran out of disk space...
I still don't understand how that Marketing drone managed to put that e-mail together.
Nice Monty Python reference.
But you forget the "pppphhhhffffttt! Can you edit that out? Yes? Thanks"
Once average people become tech savvy enough to use and configure linux
And that would be in which century?.
You're not very good at this, are you? (apart from your bluster) Did you come here for an argument?
1) You're posting as AC.
2) You've failed to provide direct references to the Bible that would contradict the parent's statement.
I, for one, welcome our Robotic Slime-Mold Overlords.
I'd hope that the methane produced is captured and used as part of the production process.
But that could just be wishful thinking...
There's been debate over the methodology used by Pimentel in carrying out his calculations - he's goes in to such detail e.g. including the energy expeneded by the workers, and the energy to build the infrastrucutre to process the ethanol. And that method is not the standard method of calculating manufacturing efficiencies. Oh, and apparently he used out-of-date effiencies on the amount of fuel used in the equipment ('70s fuel efficiencies etc)
Apparently if the same methodology was applied to out-of-the ground fuels, it's a net looser too...
And how much is a net decrease in CO2 emmisions worth?
And this has been covered before!
Maybe the Hemp vs Cotton Growers would be a better analogy...
IIRC - Hemp is a better fibre than cotton - at least FAR easier to grow, seeing as it grows like a weed (*cough* whoops, no pun intended). Which is why the cotton farmers "back then" didn't like it.
AMD have licensed the MMX, SSE, SSE2 and SSE3 (and other) x86 intruction set extensions from Intel and have functional implementations of those extensions in their various CPUs. This is so that AMDs CPUs are not placed at a disadvantage in the marketplace, and can compete in a level playing field, so for a program that uses MMX, SSE, SSE2 or SSE3, the program can use those extensions rather than emulating them.
Intel have a complier that makes use of those extension - but by default the compiled object code will only use the code path that implements those extensions if the object code is run on a Real Intel CPU - regardless of what instructions sets the CPU actually supports.
This is NOT about Intel supporting AMD's own extensions (3DNow!), or providing code that is optimised for the way the AMD CPUs actually carry out the instructions.
This is about a seemingly deliberate attempt by Intel to provide a compiler that only provides code that runs optimally on recent designs of their own CPU - at the expense of every other CPU design, even if those other designs support the same performance enhancing extensions that have been licensed from Intel! It requires deliberate checks in the run time object code to detect what CPU the code is running on - but instead of querying the CPU for which extensions are supported, the complied object code is querying for the CPU for its make and model, which is a sub-optimal method of checking for supported extensions, when the CPU can tell you directly which ones are supported.
Which brings us up the point about Hanlons's Razor "Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity" . Either Intel's compier engineers are so incompetent as to use a clunky, unreliable method of CPU capabilty detection by CPU Make and model rather than the more elegant method of asking the CPU for its supported instruction sets, or the Intel Engineers are doing it through malice (or by Marketing Department Directive...).
In light of that, the outcome for Intel is not good - either their engineers are made to either look incompetent (I don't know about you, but I don't think that's good), or there Marketing Deparment are acting with malice against their competitors to mis-represent the performance of Intel CPUs with respect to its competitor's CPUs. (not good either)
Oh, and I noticed you'd posted as AC, but I've seen that on Slashdot if uncritical thinking goes unchallenged, it tends to run rampant...
*sigh*
Mind you, I'd had the nickname inflicted on me before pokemon.
... and the one unpatched IIS6 Vulnerablity is with regard to the "Remote IIS Administration" component, which is not installed by default. So a big whop-te-do there... (You have to go out of your way to install IIS, let alone the IIS remote administration components)