I'd simply settle for having the delete key working 100% of the time. Occasionally the delete key stops functioning in IE (on numerous pcs, numerous versions of Windows). Damn annoying having to use backspace instead.
Sheldon J. Plankton plots to buy-out the Krusty Krab from CEO Eugene H. Krabs, to obtain the legendary Krabby Patty recipe and establish a monopoly in Bikini Bottom's fast food sector. Oh wait...;-)
1). How is downloading a torrent of a broadcast show different to asking your friend or relative to record a TV show for you while you are at work?
2). And how is that different to setting up your own VCR to time-record the show while you are out - and skipping the ads? Is the difference that the VCR is not mine or my family's/friend's?
3). Lets take it one step further. What if the downloader sites all had an informal/formal/eula/whatever agreement that if anyone asks, we are all co-owners of each others VCRs/TIVOs, etc? How is that different to taping it myself?
Telecom NZ suck a big fat one. They have a system where they can only change your connection speed on your plan's anniversary roll-over date (one day every month). Even if you give them plenty enough notice, something will no doubt go wrong and the computer will roll-over on the anniversary missing your plan change. No manual connect speed plan changes can be made, you will have to wait yet another month and hope that the change gets made on the next anniversary date.
Their tech support is even worse. They will give you a ticket number, but chances are, unless you are a business customer and insist strongly, no-one will ever follow up the phone call. Don't expect a reply to any emails sent to their tech support email address! Seriously!
I had a problem recently where I couldn't connect to their news server because their news server did not have the complete list of Telecom NZ owned IP addresses, so there were the obvious authentication problems. Every time I restarted my router, I'd get given a new IP address. Some IP addresses that I received could authenticate with the news server, and some couldn't. It was russian roulette. Keep restarting the router until I got an IP address that worked. Well, instead of providing their server with an updated list of IP addresses, they asked ME to write down the IP addresses that I got assigned by their DHCP that cannot authenticate and let them know so they can add them!!!
For those unfamiliar with the quote, here is the previous reference:
Rimmer: But a Black Hole's a huge, compacted star! It's millions of miles wide! Why didn't you see it on the radar screen?
Holly: Well, the thing about a Black Hole, its main distinguishing feature, is it's black. And the thing about space, your basic space colour is black. So how are you supposed to see them?
Rimmer: But five of them! How can you be ambushed by five Black Holes?
Holly: Always the way, isn't it? You hang around in deep space for three million years and you don't see one. Then, all of a sudden, five all turn up at once.
Holly: As it transpired, there weren't any Black Holes.
Rimmer: But you saw them - you saw them on the monitor.
Holly: They weren't Black Holes.
Rimmer: What were they?
Holly: Grit. Five specks of grit on the scanner-scope. See, the thing about grit is, it's black, and the thing about scanner-scopes...
Rimmer: Oh, shut up.
Well, I would agree, but then why does slashdot post every IE bug that comes up?
Because serious IE security holes are popping up every other day. The front page at/. would be choked with all the posts. But seriously, we all know that MS are notoriously slow at patching security holes, so people need to know that... <insert swiss cheese reference here>.
"Prohibit the supply or manufacture of devices, means or information that circumvent technological protection measures, where circumvention could enable infringement of any of the copyright owner's exclusive rights, and provide criminal penalties for large scale commercial dealing in circumvention devices, means or information; "
ISPs are commericial enterprises that deal in large scale supply of information/data. Bye bye Internet.;-)
Nah. I have been through two Radeons (one a made-by-ATI and the other a powered-by-ATI), and although the hardware was excellent, the drivers do indeed suck. Lets not even mention the Linux drivers, alright? The Windows TV Tuner drivers for my made-by-ATI 8500DV and the MMC have been shocking. Finding a working combination is like trying to guess the secret handshake or something. Actually, the first time I installed the drivers from the CD that came with the card, it completely killed my OS requiring a complete reinstall of Windows98SE. Couldn't even boot into Safe mode. Upon the first boot attempt explorer.exe couldn't even load due to.dll issues. Couldn't repair manually by extracting original.dll files from the Windows cab files. Things were truly screwed. A reinstall and installation of newer drivers sorted that.
The current Catalyst release (5.4) is being avoided by many due to numerous introduced bugs. Many are using much older drivers for stability and frame-rates. I upgraded to XP hoping that the driver quality would be better, but it is not. The latest XP drivers actually killed the TV tuner on my card. Had to revert to an earlier driver combo to restore TV function. This is the last time I will buy an ATI card. I never had such problems with NVidia Detonators. My whole ATI experience has left a nasty taste in my mouth.
Are you deliberately being stupid, or were you born that way? Just rewrite the exploit to launch bash with the name of the script as a parameter. Doesn't seem so hard. Likely nobody will bother because Linux is unpopular.
Ok Mr Troll, I'll play along. Lets say some hacker x launches a linux shell script (bash, sh, tsch, whatever) via this exploit that contains "rm -r/". Minimal damage it will do unless you are logged in as root. In a Windows home pc environment, most users are administrators. uh oh!
Appending anything to a domain name that you typed is plain stupid, even if server cannot be found. It's annoying when you mis-type a domain and that auto-guessing feature is invoked. I'd rather have "page cannot be displayed" error.
and these people have PLAYSTATION TWO's in their cells
That should be punishment enough.;-)
But seriously, I saw a doco of a guy in some scandinavian country in "prison" for murder. His "prison cell" was an almost-zero-security stylish modern self-contained flat with comfy furniture, tv, PS2, microwave, etc. A better lifestyle than many brits have indeed. It appears that US typical hell-hole type prisons with daily beatings and prison-sex are not fundamental to a prisoner's rehabilitation and reformation.
Quake1 was awesome gameplay-wise. Quake2 as ok. Single-player lost my interest fast. However, nothing will beat the old classic game "Blood" for multiplayer gameplay. Was perfect in the gameplay, but pretty offensive in content though.
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How about:
uh... dude? You are replying to an automated (kiddie) script. Hmmm.... I wonder if the script will be reading your post? LOL! Muhahahaha!
I'd simply settle for having the delete key working 100% of the time. Occasionally the delete key stops functioning in IE (on numerous pcs, numerous versions of Windows). Damn annoying having to use backspace instead.
Sheldon J. Plankton plots to buy-out the Krusty Krab from CEO Eugene H. Krabs, to obtain the legendary Krabby Patty recipe and establish a monopoly in Bikini Bottom's fast food sector. Oh wait... ;-)
Via la Chum Bucket !!!
Here's your big chance. Seems no-one has done it yet.
1). How is downloading a torrent of a broadcast show different to asking your friend or relative to record a TV show for you while you are at work?
2). And how is that different to setting up your own VCR to time-record the show while you are out - and skipping the ads? Is the difference that the VCR is not mine or my family's/friend's?
3). Lets take it one step further. What if the downloader sites all had an informal/formal/eula/whatever agreement that if anyone asks, we are all co-owners of each others VCRs/TIVOs, etc? How is that different to taping it myself?
Somebody set up us the false positive?
All your lame tired jokes are belong to us.
Telecom NZ suck a big fat one. They have a system where they can only change your connection speed on your plan's anniversary roll-over date (one day every month). Even if you give them plenty enough notice, something will no doubt go wrong and the computer will roll-over on the anniversary missing your plan change. No manual connect speed plan changes can be made, you will have to wait yet another month and hope that the change gets made on the next anniversary date.
Their tech support is even worse. They will give you a ticket number, but chances are, unless you are a business customer and insist strongly, no-one will ever follow up the phone call. Don't expect a reply to any emails sent to their tech support email address! Seriously!
I had a problem recently where I couldn't connect to their news server because their news server did not have the complete list of Telecom NZ owned IP addresses, so there were the obvious authentication problems. Every time I restarted my router, I'd get given a new IP address. Some IP addresses that I received could authenticate with the news server, and some couldn't. It was russian roulette. Keep restarting the router until I got an IP address that worked. Well, instead of providing their server with an updated list of IP addresses, they asked ME to write down the IP addresses that I got assigned by their DHCP that cannot authenticate and let them know so they can add them!!!
Does this mean Duke Nukem Forever is about to be released too?
For those unfamiliar with the quote, here is the previous reference:
Rimmer: But a Black Hole's a huge, compacted star! It's millions of miles wide! Why didn't you see it on the radar screen?
Holly: Well, the thing about a Black Hole, its main distinguishing feature, is it's black. And the thing about space, your basic space colour is black. So how are you supposed to see them?
Rimmer: But five of them! How can you be ambushed by five Black Holes?
Holly: Always the way, isn't it? You hang around in deep space for three million years and you don't see one. Then, all of a sudden, five all turn up at once.
Holly: As it transpired, there weren't any Black Holes.
Rimmer: But you saw them - you saw them on the monitor.
Holly: They weren't Black Holes.
Rimmer: What were they?
Holly: Grit. Five specks of grit on the scanner-scope. See, the thing about grit is, it's black, and the thing about scanner-scopes...
Rimmer: Oh, shut up.
Well, I would agree, but then why does slashdot post every IE bug that comes up?
/. would be choked with all the posts. But seriously, we all know that MS are notoriously slow at patching security holes, so people need to know that... <insert swiss cheese reference here>.
Because serious IE security holes are popping up every other day. The front page at
From Judith Tizard's Amendments Proposed for Copyright Act:
;-)
"Prohibit the supply or manufacture of devices, means or information that circumvent technological protection measures, where circumvention could enable infringement of any of the copyright owner's exclusive rights, and provide criminal penalties for large scale commercial dealing in circumvention devices, means or information; "
ISPs are commericial enterprises that deal in large scale supply of information/data. Bye bye Internet.
Nah. I have been through two Radeons (one a made-by-ATI and the other a powered-by-ATI), and although the hardware was excellent, the drivers do indeed suck. Lets not even mention the Linux drivers, alright? The Windows TV Tuner drivers for my made-by-ATI 8500DV and the MMC have been shocking. Finding a working combination is like trying to guess the secret handshake or something. Actually, the first time I installed the drivers from the CD that came with the card, it completely killed my OS requiring a complete reinstall of Windows98SE. Couldn't even boot into Safe mode. Upon the first boot attempt explorer.exe couldn't even load due to .dll issues. Couldn't repair manually by extracting original .dll files from the Windows cab files. Things were truly screwed. A reinstall and installation of newer drivers sorted that.
The current Catalyst release (5.4) is being avoided by many due to numerous introduced bugs. Many are using much older drivers for stability and frame-rates. I upgraded to XP hoping that the driver quality would be better, but it is not. The latest XP drivers actually killed the TV tuner on my card. Had to revert to an earlier driver combo to restore TV function. This is the last time I will buy an ATI card. I never had such problems with NVidia Detonators. My whole ATI experience has left a nasty taste in my mouth.
I've used the Catalyst drivers with every new version since christ.. 03 and not had a single BSOD. More than likely it's the Hyperion drivers
Hmmm.... methinks maybe you should read rage3d.com or alt.comp.periphs.videocards.ati sometime.
Ah.... I see that you are familiar with ATI's Catalyst drivers* then. Either that, or VIA's Hyperion drivers*. :-)
* Disclaimer: I use the term "drivers" very loosely.
Gee, what's next? Imagine a GTA Vice City + Internet Hunting hybrid. (shudders)
Are you deliberately being stupid, or were you born that way? Just rewrite the exploit to launch bash with the name of the script as a parameter. Doesn't seem so hard. Likely nobody will bother because Linux is unpopular.
/". Minimal damage it will do unless you are logged in as root. In a Windows home pc environment, most users are administrators. uh oh!
Ok Mr Troll, I'll play along. Lets say some hacker x launches a linux shell script (bash, sh, tsch, whatever) via this exploit that contains "rm -r
Appending anything to a domain name that you typed is plain stupid, even if server cannot be found. It's annoying when you mis-type a domain and that auto-guessing feature is invoked. I'd rather have "page cannot be displayed" error.
arggghhhhhh!!!! My minds eye!!!!!!
and these people have PLAYSTATION TWO's in their cells
;-)
That should be punishment enough.
But seriously, I saw a doco of a guy in some scandinavian country in "prison" for murder. His "prison cell" was an almost-zero-security stylish modern self-contained flat with comfy furniture, tv, PS2, microwave, etc. A better lifestyle than many brits have indeed. It appears that US typical hell-hole type prisons with daily beatings and prison-sex are not fundamental to a prisoner's rehabilitation and reformation.
You've never heard the expression "put up or shut up"?
That attitude is exactly why things are so bad in the UK.
...wired for sound...
Cliff? Is that you?
Quake1 was awesome gameplay-wise. Quake2 as ok. Single-player lost my interest fast. However, nothing will beat the old classic game "Blood" for multiplayer gameplay. Was perfect in the gameplay, but pretty offensive in content though.
It's apparently written in assembly language too. That's why it's so small. :-)