The trick with macs is that they have always had a very extensive firmware that would get them halfway booted (at least to the point where they could read HFS filesystems from a variety of attached devices; as supported by said firmware). On a mac with openfirmare (or a Sun or something) you're in much better shape.
At that point it's like GrUB finding the/boot partition in Linux or NTLDR finding ntoskrnl.exe. No magic there. It'd be just as easy to make a bootable CD if you could skip needing those beginning parts (GrUB, NTLDR).
That's giving Microsoft too much credit. You don't need to be able to write back to a bootable CD. You don't need to be able to write back to a floppy when booting! When have you ever needed to do that?
And you know, most BIOS these days can boot from CD, and then some. And the machines that don't already have a floppy drive.
And you know that BIOS also need to include code to operate a floppy drive if it is present (and it's not exactly simple either). I wouldn't miss it, especially if they replaced that functionality with better USB support at boot.
Christ, your son is going to be made fun of left and right at school.
Don't do it, shielding your children completely from popular TV, movies and games will turn them into lonely, bitter youths.
My parents thought it'd be a good thing that I watched Seasame Street all the damn time, and now look at me, I post as an Anime persona on fucking Slashdot.
Trust me... your kid will be better off with some exposure than none.
Try taking a product to the register with a cashier you're halfway familiar with. Then suggest the product is X dollars at the shelf. Balk if they even think about verifying it. About 50% of the time, they give it to you without checking. If you're really chummy with said register jockey they'll get the joke and play along. It's always worth a shot.
Even if the gift cards are sequentially numbered, each card has a random PIN assigned to it you can only read if you scratch off the back of the card.
Some cashiers would probably balk at activating a card that is already scratched off.
But you never know.
What's nice is you can use the card numbers you've lifted at WalMart.com. I'd use it to purchase downloadable things, not things that need to be shipped, for obvious reasons.
Best Buy and Home Depot didn't even bother encrypting theirs some time ago. I imagine nowadays store managers aren't so technically inept to allow that to happen now, but then, we are talking about Walmart...
Never mind that Ingres begat Sybase which begat SQL Server. Microsoft just added the features particularly suited to it's environment... well there you go.
My iDEN phone is pretty cool but Nextel seems to also be really wanting end-users to use their GPRS network at outrageous rates for everything, and disabling any quasi-useful wired connectivity. IE, if I want to send a MIDI as a ringtone without using it's web connectivity I have to use a hacked developer tool to trick it. Or their two-tiered internet access, where the first tier is just their wap-only intranet. And the second tier is still really restricted.
AT&T wireless is pretty cool though. You can spend an extra $4.00/mon and get a public routable IP address on your phone, IIRC.
The truth is Sun just does whatever the hell it feels like. Their engineers have two bosses, themselves, and whatever the current customer base asks for -- the market and analysts be damned. It's like here's everybody doing their thing, chasing after each other, and over here, is Sun. It's in its own little world. Oracle is a lot like that too. And that can be both good, and bad.
This is really important for those of you who do a clean install of XP and don't want to get 0wn3d in the process:
0) Prerequisites: XP Professional w/Corporate Volume License (you can actually derive this from an XP Home CD, a text editor and a CD Burner, exactly how this is done is left as an excercise for the reader) 1) Install XP disconnected from the Internet. Use the CVL key to bypass the need to register XP on the internet.
--- Alternatively, you can just do a phone registration without a standard retail XP... they're avaiable like 24-7. 2) When you get to the point where they talk about network settings, make sure to go enable the Internet Connection Firewall on any adapters you have. 3) Finish the installation, reboot. 4) Double check in Network Connections that your adapters have that little lock on them. 5) Put computer back on network/Connect to internet 6) Run windows update. 7) Reboot (if required) 8) Return to step 6 (if required) 9) Only at this point would you consider removing the ICF. But you don't have to unless you need to, or you get a better, 3rd party firewall to take it's place.
Or just install XP Service Pack 2 slipstreamed. This will have ICF enabled by default (as it should be).
Bounce messages are completely non-indicative of spam zombie status. I would bet my entire life savings that his email address is in the list of fake address that various mailer worms or spam programs use as the fake "From:" header. Sometimes those lists are automagically pulled from internet searches. So that way he gets innundated with bounce messages, not the spammer.
He probably just used his email address online once, or sent email to someone who's infected. Now his email address is seen as a good deflection target.
I should know. I get tons of emails like this on various accounts that I've used on message boards or mailing lists.
The one way to know if you're a zombie bot (without doing a scan for rogue software) is when you seem to be uploading a lot of data, or have lots of bursty system activity for no discernable reason.
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after all, this advertising company is still solvent, and there's apparently a lot of "tricks" to make sure you don't get stuck with Netscape dialup or whatever offer it is, so where's the harm, right? Let's just keep going while supplies last.
Problem is, at some point, any point, the current set of participating members is going to have an 8:1 chance that they'll be stuck holding the bag. Maybe all your friends are all already trying to find referrals. Maybe they don't have anymore...
It'll happen sometime. Do you want to risk joining the group?
Not that it cost you anything, except your wasted time trying to find people to fill those 8 slots.
I guess doing a gmail invite trade for referral is a nice gesture and tolerable. But a pure referral "broadcast" to a random forum is just annoying.
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The trick with macs is that they have always had a very extensive firmware that would get them halfway booted (at least to the point where they could read HFS filesystems from a variety of attached devices; as supported by said firmware). On a mac with openfirmare (or a Sun or something) you're in much better shape.
/boot partition in Linux or NTLDR finding ntoskrnl.exe. No magic there. It'd be just as easy to make a bootable CD if you could skip needing those beginning parts (GrUB, NTLDR).
At that point it's like GrUB finding the
That's giving Microsoft too much credit. You don't need to be able to write back to a bootable CD. You don't need to be able to write back to a floppy when booting! When have you ever needed to do that?
And you know, most BIOS these days can boot from CD, and then some.
And the machines that don't already have a floppy drive.
And you know that BIOS also need to include code to operate a floppy drive if it is present (and it's not exactly simple either).
I wouldn't miss it, especially if they replaced that functionality with better USB support at boot.
Please, put the tinfoil hat back on.
Christ, your son is going to be made fun of left and right at school.
Don't do it, shielding your children completely from popular TV, movies and games will turn them into lonely, bitter youths.
My parents thought it'd be a good thing that I watched Seasame Street all the damn time, and now look at me, I post as an Anime persona on fucking Slashdot.
Trust me... your kid will be better off with some exposure than none.
Who the Hell would buy a game that was just Joust or something with all the sprites replaced???
HONESTLY...
And it's got a built in screen and backlight... and a lithium ion battery.
I think that's a whole hell of a deal for $90 (currently).
surround sound through SDL, ALSA or OSS. Because I can't think of one.
And reinstall freetype from source with the hinting patches. So you're violating an apple patent. WHO CARES? You've saved your eyes.
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Try taking a product to the register with a cashier you're halfway familiar with. Then suggest the product is X dollars at the shelf. Balk if they even think about verifying it. About 50% of the time, they give it to you without checking. If you're really chummy with said register jockey they'll get the joke and play along.
It's always worth a shot.
Even if the gift cards are sequentially numbered, each card has a random PIN assigned to it you can only read if you scratch off the back of the card.
Some cashiers would probably balk at activating a card that is already scratched off.
But you never know.
What's nice is you can use the card numbers you've lifted at WalMart.com. I'd use it to purchase downloadable things, not things that need to be shipped, for obvious reasons.
At Target, the employees call that a "Code Blue".
I'll leave it up to you to figure out what a "Code Yellow" is.
Best Buy and Home Depot didn't even bother encrypting theirs some time ago. I imagine nowadays store managers aren't so technically inept to allow that to happen now, but then, we are talking about Walmart...
Drop this shit like a hot potato. That itself is reason enough to have less faith in them...
Sun just sends out tarballs with funky headers, for both installation packages and patches thereof.
The only replace individual files, never binary diff.
Never mind that Ingres begat Sybase which begat SQL Server.
Microsoft just added the features particularly suited to it's environment... well there you go.
And provider... like in the current marketplace?
My iDEN phone is pretty cool but Nextel seems to also be really wanting end-users to use their GPRS network at outrageous rates for everything, and disabling any quasi-useful wired connectivity.
IE, if I want to send a MIDI as a ringtone without using it's web connectivity I have to use a hacked developer tool to trick it.
Or their two-tiered internet access, where the first tier is just their wap-only intranet. And the second tier is still really restricted.
AT&T wireless is pretty cool though. You can spend an extra $4.00/mon and get a public routable IP address on your phone, IIRC.
Errrr... no.
802.11x is to DV as bluetooth is to VHS-c.
How much you wanna bet it looks a hell of a lot like pascal or C built on assembler macros?
The truth is Sun just does whatever the hell it feels like. Their engineers have two bosses, themselves, and whatever the current customer base asks for -- the market and analysts be damned. It's like here's everybody doing their thing, chasing after each other, and over here, is Sun. It's in its own little world. Oracle is a lot like that too.
And that can be both good, and bad.
This is really important for those of you who do a clean install of XP and don't want to get 0wn3d in the process:
0) Prerequisites: XP Professional w/Corporate Volume License (you can actually derive this from an XP Home CD, a text editor and a CD Burner, exactly how this is done is left as an excercise for the reader)
1) Install XP disconnected from the Internet. Use the CVL key to bypass the need to register XP on the internet.
--- Alternatively, you can just do a phone registration without a standard retail XP... they're avaiable like 24-7.
2) When you get to the point where they talk about network settings, make sure to go enable the Internet Connection Firewall on any adapters you have.
3) Finish the installation, reboot.
4) Double check in Network Connections that your adapters have that little lock on them.
5) Put computer back on network/Connect to internet
6) Run windows update.
7) Reboot (if required)
8) Return to step 6 (if required)
9) Only at this point would you consider removing the ICF. But you don't have to unless you need to, or you get a better, 3rd party firewall to take it's place.
Or just install XP Service Pack 2 slipstreamed. This will have ICF enabled by default (as it should be).
Bounce messages are completely non-indicative of spam zombie status. I would bet my entire life savings that his email address is in the list of fake address that various mailer worms or spam programs use as the fake "From:" header. Sometimes those lists are automagically pulled from internet searches. So that way he gets innundated with bounce messages, not the spammer.
He probably just used his email address online once, or sent email to someone who's infected. Now his email address is seen as a good deflection target.
I should know. I get tons of emails like this on various accounts that I've used on message boards or mailing lists.
The one way to know if you're a zombie bot (without doing a scan for rogue software) is when you seem to be uploading a lot of data, or have lots of bursty system activity for no discernable reason.
after all, this advertising company is still solvent, and there's apparently a lot of "tricks" to make sure you don't get stuck with Netscape dialup or whatever offer it is, so where's the harm, right? Let's just keep going while supplies last.
Problem is, at some point, any point, the current set of participating members is going to have an 8:1 chance that they'll be stuck holding the bag. Maybe all your friends are all already trying to find referrals. Maybe they don't have anymore...
It'll happen sometime. Do you want to risk joining the group?
Not that it cost you anything, except your wasted time trying to find people to fill those 8 slots.
I guess doing a gmail invite trade for referral is a nice gesture and tolerable.
But a pure referral "broadcast" to a random forum is just annoying.
YHBT, YHL. HAND...
The parent is a cut-n-paste post I've seen many times in Mozilla-related story. You bring up some good points, though.
... hmm, carry the one...
Yup, we still hate Disney.