You sir, are a wanker. If you find some sort of enjoyment in trying to lose someone a job because they aren't as god damn superior as you. Well, why don't you get your smart ass on a helpdesk and you can set everyone straight.
What a sad, sad person you must be. Sure Helpdesk is a shitkicker job, but it just means they work harder for their money than you (and are therefore more deserving). These people are generally quite smart. These people you are harassing will know a hell of a lot more about the internals of your cable service. They have a contract with you to provide service for supported systems. Of course they are going to tell you to go to an external agency if they don't support it.. why the fuck should they spend their time and money on fixing something you can't? that ain't what these people are paid for.
And them telling you that you can use these systems is hardly going to be binding. You have SIGNED a contract. go fucking read it. and next time you feel like harassing these people, send me an email, I'll send you my phone number, and you can record me telling you to go read the fucking terms of service. You can read, right?
What? I think you had better check that again. I don't know where you read that it was formatted 'using' MS-DOS 5. It may well be that it is identified as being an MS-DOS bootable floppy for compatibility (I don't have one on hand to check) but the boot processes are fundamentally different. The reason you aren't going to find autoexec and friends is because the NT bootstrap code loads NTLDR which then locates NTOSKRNL.EXE. NT formatted floppies cannot be used to boot DOS and have no DOS function whatsoever. They boot a GUI, that's it.
Installed it last night. It was extremely fast at installing and even booting seemed quicker and smoother. I was impressed as hell with it.
After I installed it I went to Windowsupdate and downloaded the latest critical updates. One of the mistakes I made was to not reboot and try to reinstall all of my applications so I could just reboot once and get it all over with. After I rebooted my machine refused to boot. It would get 1/2 way through the 'Windows is now loading' screen and give me a kernel STOP error.
It turns out that by booting up in safe mode, disabling all the network adaptors (the parallel one, and all the WAN ones included) and then rebooting, I was able to get in. Re-enabled my NIC and everything has been just as smooth since. If I didn't screw with it I'd say its reliability would be excellent.
I wouldn't call my computer's configuration and hardware standard. The moral of this offtopic post is, if it works that well on my machine, it must be good.
How would the spam keep them active? You need to access it to keep it open. With the cost of storage space nowadays, im sure they can take the couple of kilobyte hit!
Sniffing traffic? The chances of spammers having a machine sitting on the same network segment as these hotmail servers sniffing traffic is pretty damn low. If they are sitting between your machine and the Hotmail servers, I think it is time you get a new ISP!
The majority of these are not sent through Hotmail anyway, as Hotmail is not an effective means for spamming. Instead they use open mail relays with their spamming software and forge the Hotmail addresses. This is something Hotmail will never stop, but it shows that their approach is working if spammers couldn't be bothered using Hotmail as a spam outlet.
What do you expect they should do? It is not unreasonable to expect them to contact the ISP of the user in question (if they can indeed provide proof that it was this person). What the ISP does from there is their responsibility. You say that they don't do shit. I would be curious as to why you are so sure of this?
Might have filled in a webform that sold it. Thats how a large percentage of email addresses are obtained for spamming. Selling e-mail addresses would financially benifit little shabby outfits built on selling these details, not Microsoft.
Why are you blaming the spam on Hotmail. Did it ever occur to you that they are bound to a Privacy Policy, and that a company like Microsoft is not stupid enough to leak users? Can you consider for a minute what it would cost Microsoft to violate said policy?
There seems to be a belief that Microsoft's intentions are and always will be bad. I would say that the customer ethics of a company such as Microsoft would be well above most. Remember that they have never been on trial for anything to do with customers, only rivals.
Enable the feature, wait untill it blocks something from the listserver, go into 'Bulk Mail', select a message from the listserver and select 'this is not bulk mail'. It won't block anything from that address again.
I think the Bulk Mail feature is excellent. On average in a month I get about 2 spam mailings and I have had my hotmail address for at least 4-5 years now and use it as my primary address.
You're right that you should not need to know the movie producer to view the website. That is why most movies nowadays have a website at www.[moviename].com. This is the first obvious place I would check if I were looking for the website. Remember that 90% of people aren't going to give up first go when looking for a website.
Trademark laws at the moment do a good job of protecting trademark owners from people registering domains in their name. Think about it, why do we need to segregate trademarks from non trademarks when a trademark is only awarded if it is unique enough to be used by a company as a name, there really should not be any conflict with domain names.
Hyphens and spaces are an issue for the developers of the HTTP and DNS protocols. There is a good reason why they are/aren't accepted and changing these would break a LOT of code. The hyphen is accepted as a substitute for a space, and having a hyphen in a URL is no easier to read than having spaces. The current system works. Why you believe that hyphens should not be used on the DNS side of things confuses me. We would end up with a heap of domain names we would have to remove, yet it would still be valid to type these into a browser. If anything, you should change it on the client side.
I don't understand why www. is such a bonehead move. www, being World Wide Web, is much more descriptive as an acronym than Web. Dropping the prefix may be fine if you run all your services on the one machine, but there will always be the problem of people prefixing addresses with www. This seems hardly worth the 4 less characters to type.
If I understand your DNS failover at the client point, I believe it is called caching and already exists. How a client can locate a device via an IP address it doesn't have because the DNS server is down beats me. You could, of course, have every NS on the internet do a zone transfer to every client on the internet.. might fix the problem of NSes going down, ignoring the obvious problems there, the current system of backup servers seems to work fine now (providing they sit on different machines, on different networks, in different locations). However if you are really serious about client-end redundancy for nameservers, we could all go back to the good old days of downloading one monstorous hosts file..
And for the final paragraph. The port is irrelevant, the client should know to go to the pop-3 port if it is retrieving mail via pop3. As for load balancing, this already exists in not only its simplest form (round-robin DNS) but also in more complex systems. Having the DNS server designate which machine to use as a, for example, news server for a domain is fine, as long as you only have one news server for the entire domain, with backups. If you had one news server for internal news, and another as an internet newsfeed, there would be problems.
Do you have a clue what you are talking about? Yes Microsoft Engineers did encode a string into a file saying that Netscape engineers are weenies, similar to the text imprinted on Intel CPUs about Bill Gates. In both cases they were fired. This was not a backdoor to the product.
The ILOVEYOU virus was not written by an MS engineer and is irrelevant here. The virus exploits tools made available by the software. They were not put there for that purpose and if anyone is to blame he's in the phillipines so go bitch to him.
You're an idiot. A software programmer for Microsoft is no different to a software programmer for any other company. THEY didn't write an entire product, they contributed to it. A programmer writing database functions into a Microsoft app will be writing something very similar to someone working for any other company developing on the Windows platform using database functions. Why the fuck should they quit a job in which they get good pay, great benefits and job security because some other wing of their HUGE corporation is doing something they don't agree with. Fuck, if I did that every time I didn't agree with a management decision I would be collecting your tax dollars on welfare for life. Maybe you should consider that with the power and money they have, Microsoft would probabely be THE BEST environment in which to work in.
I'm not a troll, and my personal opinion of you is that you are a rather misinformed so-called 'security expert'. If you are indeed a security expert, why do you then have to remove services from customers for which you aren't skilled enough to audit and secure yourself?
Microsoft have no reason to put security backdoors in their own software. I think you will find that on the MS side of the fence, there is a lot less competition than you think. Sure, they call Netscape engineers weenies.. Weenie is the nicest thing I've heard an MS engineer called on here. And no, they're not stupid. In fact, if they were stupid my friend, they would be doing your job (cleaning up after other people.. the janitor of computing).
I don't have time to respond to all the uneducated posts within this story. All I can say is, with your mindless anti-MS bullshit to try and get the acceptance of others, you only prove that you are not experienced in any other OSes, and would be a particularly incompetant admin.
I must agree.. speaking of ratios, this thread screws the ontopic/offtopic ratio.. these posts are just as bad at creating junk in the middle of stories.
Yes, in HIS time, Linus is devoted to furthering the Open Source effort. On transmeta's time, however, he is an EMPLOYEE and therefore does his job, which in turn allows him to feed his family. I know how he feels. At home all my machines run Linux, my applications are Open Source, and personally I think its the best thing to happen to the Computer industry. At work, however, I train people to use NT, and I admin NT servers. I work for a traning company that MUST use NT. I would never even consider advocating the use of Linux there. How are people going to earn MCSEs using Linux? My point is that it is not always appropriate to apply Open Source technology. It is not hypocritical to use Closed Source when you are an Open Source advocate. Because I recommend to people that they buy a PC (for instance, im not interested in this debate..), does not mean that if someone handed me a powerbook or a G2 I would throw it in the bin.
I'm getting disconnected constantly from optusnet, I'm not sure if that's related.. I was happy, I got a call through to Canada on 8th go with Vodafone, and everything seems to be running smoothly
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You sir, are a wanker. If you find some sort of enjoyment in trying to lose someone a job because they aren't as god damn superior as you. Well, why don't you get your smart ass on a helpdesk and you can set everyone straight.
What a sad, sad person you must be. Sure Helpdesk is a shitkicker job, but it just means they work harder for their money than you (and are therefore more deserving). These people are generally quite smart. These people you are harassing will know a hell of a lot more about the internals of your cable service. They have a contract with you to provide service for supported systems. Of course they are going to tell you to go to an external agency if they don't support it.. why the fuck should they spend their time and money on fixing something you can't? that ain't what these people are paid for.
And them telling you that you can use these systems is hardly going to be binding. You have SIGNED a contract. go fucking read it. and next time you feel like harassing these people, send me an email, I'll send you my phone number, and you can record me telling you to go read the fucking terms of service. You can read, right?
What? I think you had better check that again. I don't know where you read that it was formatted 'using' MS-DOS 5. It may well be that it is identified as being an MS-DOS bootable floppy for compatibility (I don't have one on hand to check) but the boot processes are fundamentally different. The reason you aren't going to find autoexec and friends is because the NT bootstrap code loads NTLDR which then locates NTOSKRNL.EXE. NT formatted floppies cannot be used to boot DOS and have no DOS function whatsoever. They boot a GUI, that's it.
Never goes down? Whichever 1 task you are doing at a time in DOS is going to have the CPU's full attention. This application crashes, you're screwed.
That's stability?
Installed it last night. It was extremely fast at installing and even booting seemed quicker and smoother. I was impressed as hell with it.
After I installed it I went to Windowsupdate and downloaded the latest critical updates. One of the mistakes I made was to not reboot and try to reinstall all of my applications so I could just reboot once and get it all over with. After I rebooted my machine refused to boot. It would get 1/2 way through the 'Windows is now loading' screen and give me a kernel STOP error.
It turns out that by booting up in safe mode, disabling all the network adaptors (the parallel one, and all the WAN ones included) and then rebooting, I was able to get in. Re-enabled my NIC and everything has been just as smooth since. If I didn't screw with it I'd say its reliability would be excellent.
I wouldn't call my computer's configuration and hardware standard. The moral of this offtopic post is, if it works that well on my machine, it must be good.
How would the spam keep them active? You need to access it to keep it open. With the cost of storage space nowadays, im sure they can take the couple of kilobyte hit!
Sniffing traffic? The chances of spammers having a machine sitting on the same network segment as these hotmail servers sniffing traffic is pretty damn low. If they are sitting between your machine and the Hotmail servers, I think it is time you get a new ISP!
Don't access it for 6 months and it will be deleted automatically.
The majority of these are not sent through Hotmail anyway, as Hotmail is not an effective means for spamming. Instead they use open mail relays with their spamming software and forge the Hotmail addresses. This is something Hotmail will never stop, but it shows that their approach is working if spammers couldn't be bothered using Hotmail as a spam outlet.
What do you expect they should do? It is not unreasonable to expect them to contact the ISP of the user in question (if they can indeed provide proof that it was this person). What the ISP does from there is their responsibility. You say that they don't do shit. I would be curious as to why you are so sure of this?
Might have filled in a webform that sold it. Thats how a large percentage of email addresses are obtained for spamming. Selling e-mail addresses would financially benifit little shabby outfits built on selling these details, not Microsoft.
Why are you blaming the spam on Hotmail. Did it ever occur to you that they are bound to a Privacy Policy, and that a company like Microsoft is not stupid enough to leak users? Can you consider for a minute what it would cost Microsoft to violate said policy?
There seems to be a belief that Microsoft's intentions are and always will be bad. I would say that the customer ethics of a company such as Microsoft would be well above most. Remember that they have never been on trial for anything to do with customers, only rivals.
Enable the feature, wait untill it blocks something from the listserver, go into 'Bulk Mail', select a message from the listserver and select 'this is not bulk mail'. It won't block anything from that address again.
I think the Bulk Mail feature is excellent. On average in a month I get about 2 spam mailings and I have had my hotmail address for at least 4-5 years now and use it as my primary address.
what?
You're right that you should not need to know the movie producer to view the website. That is why most movies nowadays have a website at www.[moviename].com. This is the first obvious place I would check if I were looking for the website. Remember that 90% of people aren't going to give up first go when looking for a website.
Trademark laws at the moment do a good job of protecting trademark owners from people registering domains in their name. Think about it, why do we need to segregate trademarks from non trademarks when a trademark is only awarded if it is unique enough to be used by a company as a name, there really should not be any conflict with domain names.
Hyphens and spaces are an issue for the developers of the HTTP and DNS protocols. There is a good reason why they are/aren't accepted and changing these would break a LOT of code. The hyphen is accepted as a substitute for a space, and having a hyphen in a URL is no easier to read than having spaces. The current system works. Why you believe that hyphens should not be used on the DNS side of things confuses me. We would end up with a heap of domain names we would have to remove, yet it would still be valid to type these into a browser. If anything, you should change it on the client side.
I don't understand why www. is such a bonehead move. www, being World Wide Web, is much more descriptive as an acronym than Web. Dropping the prefix may be fine if you run all your services on the one machine, but there will always be the problem of people prefixing addresses with www. This seems hardly worth the 4 less characters to type.
If I understand your DNS failover at the client point, I believe it is called caching and already exists. How a client can locate a device via an IP address it doesn't have because the DNS server is down beats me. You could, of course, have every NS on the internet do a zone transfer to every client on the internet.. might fix the problem of NSes going down, ignoring the obvious problems there, the current system of backup servers seems to work fine now (providing they sit on different machines, on different networks, in different locations). However if you are really serious about client-end redundancy for nameservers, we could all go back to the good old days of downloading one monstorous hosts file..
And for the final paragraph. The port is irrelevant, the client should know to go to the pop-3 port if it is retrieving mail via pop3. As for load balancing, this already exists in not only its simplest form (round-robin DNS) but also in more complex systems. Having the DNS server designate which machine to use as a, for example, news server for a domain is fine, as long as you only have one news server for the entire domain, with backups. If you had one news server for internal news, and another as an internet newsfeed, there would be problems.
Or an alias to one of the above mentioned machines.
Or don't.. please..
Do you have a clue what you are talking about? Yes Microsoft Engineers did encode a string into a file saying that Netscape engineers are weenies, similar to the text imprinted on Intel CPUs about Bill Gates. In both cases they were fired. This was not a backdoor to the product.
The ILOVEYOU virus was not written by an MS engineer and is irrelevant here. The virus exploits tools made available by the software. They were not put there for that purpose and if anyone is to blame he's in the phillipines so go bitch to him.
You're an idiot. A software programmer for Microsoft is no different to a software programmer for any other company. THEY didn't write an entire product, they contributed to it. A programmer writing database functions into a Microsoft app will be writing something very similar to someone working for any other company developing on the Windows platform using database functions. Why the fuck should they quit a job in which they get good pay, great benefits and job security because some other wing of their HUGE corporation is doing something they don't agree with. Fuck, if I did that every time I didn't agree with a management decision I would be collecting your tax dollars on welfare for life. Maybe you should consider that with the power and money they have, Microsoft would probabely be THE BEST environment in which to work in.
I'm not a troll, and my personal opinion of you is that you are a rather misinformed so-called 'security expert'. If you are indeed a security expert, why do you then have to remove services from customers for which you aren't skilled enough to audit and secure yourself?
Microsoft have no reason to put security backdoors in their own software. I think you will find that on the MS side of the fence, there is a lot less competition than you think. Sure, they call Netscape engineers weenies.. Weenie is the nicest thing I've heard an MS engineer called on here. And no, they're not stupid. In fact, if they were stupid my friend, they would be doing your job (cleaning up after other people.. the janitor of computing).
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And for that I hope you were FIRED
I don't have time to respond to all the uneducated posts within this story. All I can say is, with your mindless anti-MS bullshit to try and get the acceptance of others, you only prove that you are not experienced in any other OSes, and would be a particularly incompetant admin.
I must agree.. speaking of ratios, this thread screws the ontopic/offtopic ratio.. these posts are just as bad at creating junk in the middle of stories.
Yes, in HIS time, Linus is devoted to furthering the Open Source effort. On transmeta's time, however, he is an EMPLOYEE and therefore does his job, which in turn allows him to feed his family.
I know how he feels. At home all my machines run Linux, my applications are Open Source, and personally I think its the best thing to happen to the Computer industry. At work, however, I train people to use NT, and I admin NT servers. I work for a traning company that MUST use NT. I would never even consider advocating the use of Linux there. How are people going to earn MCSEs using Linux? My point is that it is not always appropriate to apply Open Source technology. It is not hypocritical to use Closed Source when you are an Open Source advocate. Because I recommend to people that they buy a PC (for instance, im not interested in this debate..), does not mean that if someone handed me a powerbook or a G2 I would throw it in the bin.
www.behrendsen.com IN CNAME www.microsoft.com.
I'm getting disconnected constantly from optusnet, I'm not sure if that's related.. I was happy, I got a call through to Canada on 8th go with Vodafone, and everything seems to be running smoothly