That's a tougher problem than most people seem to realize. If I'm hiding my collection of exotic photos of, I dunno, under-aged parrots or skanky sheep (but here, I perhaps reveal too much), I have to worry about my computer's environment as a great big system... I have to ensure that, for example, windows doesn't index that mounted drive (or whatever you're using), I have to make sure that my picture viewer doesn't cache thumbnails in an awkward place, or that editing doesn't create unencrypted temp files. My "recently opened documents" has to be, what, encrypted too? Regularly overwritten 60 billion times per day? Turned off? Something.
It's not that the things I've mentioned are themselves insurmountable, or even difficult. It's that there are so many little leaks, based on so many convenient services that a relatively complex software ecosystem provides.
... and rather than complain about that, you might have listed them in your post:-) FileZilla VirtualBox OpenOffice.org Firefox 3.5 Paint.Net Media Player Classic TrueCrypt PDFCreator 7-Zip ClamWin
Absolutely, I mean, so what if those guys broke into your house and killed you and raped your mom *right in your own basement bedroom*... y'know, you should have had better locks, and used them more consistently; y'know, if you'd really cared.
Sure, there are *much* better backup strategies; that having been said, somebody broke in and did a bunch of damage for shits and grins. They suck.
Reminded me of "The Dreaming Jewels"; an old sf novel by Sturgeon in which the author speculates that a completely foreign species exists on the earth, but is invisible simply owing to the slightness of its impingement on our ecosphere.
we got DNA here; let's just resurrect this Copernicus dude... assuming, of course, that we have his hair, horns, or what have you...
The same technology could be applied to any other extinct species from which one can obtain hair, horn, hooves, fur or feathers, and which went extinct within the last 60,000 years, the effective age limit for DNA."
> I miss "Leading Edge Word Processor"!
Best out there; quick, even on a slow computer (though mine at the time had a "fast" toggle) Great stuff, and all amber. You never forget your first.
Ben
Meridian's Ada compiler, as I recall (this was more than a decade ago), came with an editor that saved information on edits; IIRC, you could 'undo' even across editing sessions.
I seem to recall this being part of the Ada spec, but as I consider it, it sounds funny to expect a language spec to cover the development environment as well; perhaps it was aaaaaaaaaaalllllll just a dream... Anybody else remember?
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Funny, that's pretty much the way Verizon always treated me as a customer ...
And this hides the fact that you're using crypto how ??
Oh, that's nice ... an under-rested 6 year old with a firearm.
Granted, I'm not going to be the one to tell him to get his ass upstairs and get in bed ...
That's a tougher problem than most people seem to realize. If I'm hiding my collection of exotic photos of, I dunno, under-aged parrots or skanky sheep (but here, I perhaps reveal too much), I have to worry about my computer's environment as a great big system ... I have to ensure that, for example, windows doesn't index that mounted drive (or whatever you're using), I have to make sure that my picture viewer doesn't cache thumbnails in an awkward place, or that editing doesn't create unencrypted temp files. My "recently opened documents" has to be, what, encrypted too? Regularly overwritten 60 billion times per day? Turned off? Something.
It's not that the things I've mentioned are themselves insurmountable, or even difficult. It's that there are so many little leaks, based on so many convenient services that a relatively complex software ecosystem provides.
FileZilla
VirtualBox
OpenOffice.org
Firefox 3.5
Paint.Net
Media Player Classic
TrueCrypt
PDFCreator
7-Zip
ClamWin
"I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."
... just sayin'
And yeah, I know it's CO2 ... you want a global-warming joke instead, *you* make it.
meh ... call me when it survives a 5 year old.
... Synecdoche, it's not just a city in New York :-)
Absolutely, I mean, so what if those guys broke into your house and killed you and raped your mom *right in your own basement bedroom* ... y'know, you should have had better locks, and used them more consistently; y'know, if you'd really cared.
Sure, there are *much* better backup strategies; that having been said, somebody broke in and did a bunch of damage for shits and grins. They suck.
"could the world of high-end PC graphics simply go away?" Nope, not as long as there are gamers with teeny, tiny penises. Nerd sports cars.
I read the word "oscillate" as "osculate", and, like the article poster, *I* couldn't stop screaming.
You're selling women???
If you like primer, you'd like the movie pi, prolly. I liked both for about the same reasons.
Ben
Reminded me of "The Dreaming Jewels"; an old sf novel by Sturgeon in which the author speculates that a completely foreign species exists on the earth, but is invisible simply owing to the slightness of its impingement on our ecosphere.
... great; now, on the new tubes, I gotta have my shoes x-rayed before I can log in.
If you like the TSA, you gonna *love* this.
The coming clearance sale at Circuit City, of course ... could mean fairly ugly times at BB, etc.
Just doing something, whether subject to criticism or praise, puts him in the top 10%.
-- Oh, for [gG]od's sake, it's a joke, ok?
> I miss "Leading Edge Word Processor"! Best out there; quick, even on a slow computer (though mine at the time had a "fast" toggle) Great stuff, and all amber. You never forget your first. Ben
Yeah, we could call it, I dunno, "time machine" or something.
Don't waste your work time reading slashdot ...
Meridian's Ada compiler, as I recall (this was more than a decade ago), came with an editor that saved information on edits; IIRC, you could 'undo' even across editing sessions.
I seem to recall this being part of the Ada spec, but as I consider it, it sounds funny to expect a language spec to cover the development environment as well; perhaps it was aaaaaaaaaaalllllll just a dream ... Anybody else remember?
I'd be satisfied if my current provider quit modifying my foreground noise so badly.
And just the thing for these beasties