The article talks about how easy it is to use Google Codesearch and goes further to suggest that the regular search can't be used to find code.
B.S.!
I've used Google search to find all sorts of code snippets over the years, particularly #define's for constants that Microsoft don't actually define anywhere on MSDN.
After enduring tough criticism over the years from environmental groups, tech companies have started offering more ways for consumers to properly dispose of computer gadgets and to conserve electricity while using computer gear.
Good grief, you'd think they'd go after TV and monitor manufacturers, too. A lot of CRT-based TV's and monitors have a "standby" mode that draws almost as much power as full-on. These things are on all the time, whereas a lot of computers are only on when in-use. I expect a lot more people have TV's than computers, too.
Who wants to bet we're about to see a whole lot of 419's from 'The Wife of the Late Timothy Olufemi Akanni?'"
Sometimes, life is too amusing to be true.
Virtually demanding respect for the loss of 2,749 souls in the 9-11 attack, the world has been flooded with news and documentaries about the event for the last week and no doubt this will continue for another week or more. Is it really so difficult to show a little respect for the friends and families of Timothy Olufemi Akanni, regardless of what kind life he himself lived?
Amazon uses ATDMT.com to serve ads. The sites you were searching for Bluetooth gear on were also using ATDMT.com to serve ads. It's not Amazon that knew you were looking for Bluetooth gear, it's ATDMT.com.
South, the only person likely to read that as snide is you.
He's completely correct - if connectivity is as critical to your business as you're trying to make out then you should have at least N+1 redundancy not just for your comms links, but for your core servers like mail and web (if you're hosting your own).
You work for a non-profit business. That doesn't mean you work for a no-money business! Make a business case to your management *now* to get a redundant link so you're not a repeat victim. Don't wait one, two or six months to do this, do it now while the pain is still fresh in their memories! You may not be planning to change providers any time soon, but do you honestly think you'll always have completely unimpeded 100% uptime?
If you fail to do anything about this then you're no better than the noob at home who thinks his RAID array is enough for backups and then complains about losing his multi-terabyte porn collection when he's defrag'd after "accidentally" deleting it.
It's not hard... Step 1: cacls {TheFile}/g Administrator:F Winlogon doesn't run as Administrator and so won't be able to load the file. WFP doesn't run as Administrator and so won't be able to replace the file.
I'm not quite sure I want to call it a dongle. At 8x2 cm it's not the smallest thing to attach to a keychain.
OMG, Taco! Have you even measured an average USB flash key? Even Verbatim's crappy 256k/512k/1GB keys are 7.5x2cm. 5mm longer for an extra 15GB and you want to complain?
excuse me, but a copy IS a backup.. and a direct copy of a hard disk to another disk is both a copy AND a backup.
Well yes, a copy is a *form* of backup. There's also such things as incremental backups which only copy (backup) changed files - which is done by looking for files with their Archive bit set and resetting them after the copy (backup). (Admittedly, this can also be done with XCOPY/M) "Proper" backups will also backup things like Access Control Lists, which COPY/XCOPY won't do if the target folder is on another volume - they inherit permissions from the target folder. XCOPY/COPY are also *very* poor at copying large files across a network, even with the/V (verify) switch. NCOPY and ROBOCOPY are much better at this.
Usually file copies/backups don't work for databases (I'm thinking MS Squirrel in particular here) since the server core holds the database and transaction log files open in "read-write exclusive" access which prevents any other processes from opening them, even in read-only mode. Solutions for this include: buying very expensive and completely unnecessary plug-ins for your Backup Agents which install into SQL Server (and hence risk the reliability and stability of your production system), or scheduling an SQL Agent Job to backup its own databases to local/remote.bak files and then those get copied (backed-up) by your normal backup process. This exclusive-lock problem happens with all sorts of things, from Registry Hives to Metabases to Mail DBs.
You really shouldn't be seeing issues like this with user-created DVDs.
So far as VCR's go, there's a lot of moving parts in there even for "simple" consumer-level devices. Regular maintenance is essential, especially on high-use equipment. The most common cause of recording/playback/portability problems is due to the back-tension rollers. These are rubber-coated wheels which help to hold the video tape against the head drum to ensure proper reading/writing from/to the oxide layer. These eventually get a smooth sheen on them due to wear and oxide stripping from the tape and thus cause slippage and irregular transport of the tape and glitches in the signal. They can usually be fixed-up on the cheap by removing them, putting them on a machined screw on a dril and using fine-grade sandpaper just enough to remove the sheen. Clean them with alcohol to remove debris and reinsert in VCR. There may also need to be adjustment to the back tension spring on the arm which holds the back tension wheel, but this is usually better left alone. Other maintenance activites also involve cleaning the audio/tracking head and head drums (the heads themselves, actually) to remove oxide and other gunk buildups to ensure proper contact with the tape, and also occasionaly replacing the rubber drive and loading belts - particularly if the unit has been sitting idle for a while. Dai-ichi make a large range of belts for many models, which we get from WES Electronics - far cheaper than "brand" name belts.
If your budgets are anything like police budgets in Aus then you're probably limited to consumer-level devices. You can't go past Samsung VCR's, especially get ones with the "Dub" or "Edit mode" switches as these tend to avoid the Macrovision-style copy corruption (err, protection) techniques employed in a lot of other VCRs. The seems to be getting even more prevalent, even with everyone allegedly using DVDs now or pirating movies from the net.
Without Simone's routing we would have spent an incredible amount of time just transferring between representatives, and the temp reps would have never worked.
That's complete and total bullshit. Interactive touch-tone menus have worked just fine for years and the only people who can't use them are the stubbourn people still using decadic phones (rotary dial for your tweens). My bank used touch-tone menus for years with no problems, but recently switched to a voice-activated menu system. You absolutely positively cannot get the stupid thing to work if there is a TV or radio going nearby - and sometimes you don't have control over that because someone else wants/needs that going.
Hmm, the truly depressing part is that artists could be making 87-89 cents per download if they sold their tracks directly to Apple iTunes (sans their production costs) but because they are stuck in "iron clad" contracts with labels they get a measly 5 cents per download instead.
Most comments here seem to be (unjustly) bagging the customer for their own ineptitude. Without more information about your product it's difficult to say, but it's possible that the customer is correct and is actually experiencing slow operation due to link latency between their site and yours. If you're testing the product's correct operation from your local network (instead of connecting from a remote ISP's dial-up or DSL link) of course it will seem fine.
Remote users of MS Outlook's MAPI client, for example, can attest to how painful that product can be - same goes for international users of World of Warcraft on Blizzard's "Oceanic" servers.
Invisibility is an optical illusion that the object or person is not there. Leonhardt uses the example of water circling around a stone. The water flows in, swirls around the stone and then leaves as if nothing was there.
"If you replace the water with light then you would not see that there was something present because the light is guided around the person or object. You would see the light coming from the scenery behind as if there was nothing in front," he said.
A most people will have actually seen water flowing around a rock in a creek or a stream will attest, the water doesn't just leave as if nothing was there: there's all sorts of turbulence, especially leaving visibile waves on the surface and even a trail of bubbles if there is sufficient flow to cause aeration.
I've worked on a few systems which allowed you to choose your own secret questions and answers, but they're really not that much better.
One of the better solutions I saw required you to register at least two of (1)an e-mail address, (2) an SMS number, and (3) a facsimile number. If you lost your password you went to the "forgot password" interface, entered your username and asked it to send a message to one of the registered points (it would just say "E-mail," "SMS" or "Facsimile" and not divulge the specific details). The message contained a one-time URL which expired in 24 hours and allowed you to set a new password. When the password got reset, a message was sent out to all registered points detailing when and where from (IP address) this occured. Self-service all the way.
Not since the days of macro viruses and Melissa have Office files posed such a danger to computer security.'Not since the days of macro viruses and Melissa have Office files posed such a danger to computer security.
Bollocks! They've always posed a danger, it's just that now they're getting some attention. I wonder if they'll look at TrueType/OpenType fonts any time soon - anyone remember the BSOD.ttf file?
When you've got hundreds of miles of Kapton wire in the average cargo plane the point of ignition could be anywhere - especially if the plane is now dispersed over many square miles of crash site.
Decisions have to be made up front as to what is the relationship between "name" and "last name" (people have a name, which has a last name, yet companies have names that typically don't have a last name. What about a cat named "John K. Wibblesworth" how is that different from one named "Tama"?)
And how do you classify people who have just one name, like "Virgil?" I don't mean "Virgil Williams" or "Andrew Virgil," just "Virgil." Is that his first name, last name or something else altogether?
The problem with standards is that people keep making new ones.
Ah, what web sites (besides the obvious Windows Update) refuse to work with anything other than Windows? Just using Firefox on Windows there's plenty out there that only work with MS-IE.:(
I've got a better worst-case scenario: Thief boots laptop up with a Ghost CD and images the hard disk across a network or to an external drive connected by USB or FireWire, leaving no trace that the contents have been read since none of the a-times (assuming they're even turned on) have changed on the original filesystem.
The hard drive they're worried about in this case is an actually external USB drive (from memory), but you could do the same with that.
The very first line of the linked article reads (emphasis added):
A Spanish intellectual property law has finally banned unauthorized peer-to-peer file-sharing in Spain, making it a civil offense even to download content for personal use.
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The article talks about how easy it is to use Google Codesearch and goes further to suggest that the regular search can't be used to find code.
B.S.!
I've used Google search to find all sorts of code snippets over the years, particularly #define's for constants that Microsoft don't actually define anywhere on MSDN.
Welcome to the internet.
Amazon uses ATDMT.com to serve ads. The sites you were searching for Bluetooth gear on were also using ATDMT.com to serve ads. It's not Amazon that knew you were looking for Bluetooth gear, it's ATDMT.com.
That's why they're called "Tracking Cookies."
South, the only person likely to read that as snide is you.
He's completely correct - if connectivity is as critical to your business as you're trying to make out then you should have at least N+1 redundancy not just for your comms links, but for your core servers like mail and web (if you're hosting your own).
You work for a non-profit business. That doesn't mean you work for a no-money business! Make a business case to your management *now* to get a redundant link so you're not a repeat victim. Don't wait one, two or six months to do this, do it now while the pain is still fresh in their memories! You may not be planning to change providers any time soon, but do you honestly think you'll always have completely unimpeded 100% uptime?
If you fail to do anything about this then you're no better than the noob at home who thinks his RAID array is enough for backups and then complains about losing his multi-terabyte porn collection when he's defrag'd after "accidentally" deleting it.
It's not hard... /g Administrator:F
Step 1: cacls {TheFile}
Winlogon doesn't run as Administrator and so won't be able to load the file. WFP doesn't run as Administrator and so won't be able to replace the file.
Well yes, a copy is a *form* of backup. There's also such things as incremental backups which only copy (backup) changed files - which is done by looking for files with their Archive bit set and resetting them after the copy (backup). (Admittedly, this can also be done with XCOPY /M) "Proper" backups will also backup things like Access Control Lists, which COPY/XCOPY won't do if the target folder is on another volume - they inherit permissions from the target folder. XCOPY/COPY are also *very* poor at copying large files across a network, even with the /V (verify) switch. NCOPY and ROBOCOPY are much better at this.
Usually file copies/backups don't work for databases (I'm thinking MS Squirrel in particular here) since the server core holds the database and transaction log files open in "read-write exclusive" access which prevents any other processes from opening them, even in read-only mode. Solutions for this include: buying very expensive and completely unnecessary plug-ins for your Backup Agents which install into SQL Server (and hence risk the reliability and stability of your production system), or scheduling an SQL Agent Job to backup its own databases to local/remote .bak files and then those get copied (backed-up) by your normal backup process. This exclusive-lock problem happens with all sorts of things, from Registry Hives to Metabases to Mail DBs.
You really shouldn't be seeing issues like this with user-created DVDs.
So far as VCR's go, there's a lot of moving parts in there even for "simple" consumer-level devices. Regular maintenance is essential, especially on high-use equipment. The most common cause of recording/playback/portability problems is due to the back-tension rollers. These are rubber-coated wheels which help to hold the video tape against the head drum to ensure proper reading/writing from/to the oxide layer. These eventually get a smooth sheen on them due to wear and oxide stripping from the tape and thus cause slippage and irregular transport of the tape and glitches in the signal. They can usually be fixed-up on the cheap by removing them, putting them on a machined screw on a dril and using fine-grade sandpaper just enough to remove the sheen. Clean them with alcohol to remove debris and reinsert in VCR. There may also need to be adjustment to the back tension spring on the arm which holds the back tension wheel, but this is usually better left alone. Other maintenance activites also involve cleaning the audio/tracking head and head drums (the heads themselves, actually) to remove oxide and other gunk buildups to ensure proper contact with the tape, and also occasionaly replacing the rubber drive and loading belts - particularly if the unit has been sitting idle for a while. Dai-ichi make a large range of belts for many models, which we get from WES Electronics - far cheaper than "brand" name belts.
If your budgets are anything like police budgets in Aus then you're probably limited to consumer-level devices. You can't go past Samsung VCR's, especially get ones with the "Dub" or "Edit mode" switches as these tend to avoid the Macrovision-style copy corruption (err, protection) techniques employed in a lot of other VCRs. The seems to be getting even more prevalent, even with everyone allegedly using DVDs now or pirating movies from the net.
Damn I wish I had Mod Points today. I can so relate to that!
Geez, Palm, don't you think it'd be nice if you released the 700p/w to all markets before you start selling the next model?
Hmm, the truly depressing part is that artists could be making 87-89 cents per download if they sold their tracks directly to Apple iTunes (sans their production costs) but because they are stuck in "iron clad" contracts with labels they get a measly 5 cents per download instead.
MAKE has a couple of photos of Joe Grand's PCB/PIC/LED badges in their blog.
Most comments here seem to be (unjustly) bagging the customer for their own ineptitude. Without more information about your product it's difficult to say, but it's possible that the customer is correct and is actually experiencing slow operation due to link latency between their site and yours. If you're testing the product's correct operation from your local network (instead of connecting from a remote ISP's dial-up or DSL link) of course it will seem fine.
Remote users of MS Outlook's MAPI client, for example, can attest to how painful that product can be - same goes for international users of World of Warcraft on Blizzard's "Oceanic" servers.
I wonder if this is BadAnalogyGuy in disguise? :)
A most people will have actually seen water flowing around a rock in a creek or a stream will attest, the water doesn't just leave as if nothing was there: there's all sorts of turbulence, especially leaving visibile waves on the surface and even a trail of bubbles if there is sufficient flow to cause aeration.
I've worked on a few systems which allowed you to choose your own secret questions and answers, but they're really not that much better.
One of the better solutions I saw required you to register at least two of (1)an e-mail address, (2) an SMS number, and (3) a facsimile number. If you lost your password you went to the "forgot password" interface, entered your username and asked it to send a message to one of the registered points (it would just say "E-mail," "SMS" or "Facsimile" and not divulge the specific details). The message contained a one-time URL which expired in 24 hours and allowed you to set a new password. When the password got reset, a message was sent out to all registered points detailing when and where from (IP address) this occured. Self-service all the way.
Bollocks! They've always posed a danger, it's just that now they're getting some attention. I wonder if they'll look at TrueType/OpenType fonts any time soon - anyone remember the BSOD .ttf file?
Due to the complete lack of pictures in the source article, here's some for your appetite...
Anna Konda in action (JPEG, 844x453)
Close-up of a segment (JPEG, 280x210)
When you've got hundreds of miles of Kapton wire in the average cargo plane the point of ignition could be anywhere - especially if the plane is now dispersed over many square miles of crash site.
And how do you classify people who have just one name, like "Virgil?" I don't mean "Virgil Williams" or "Andrew Virgil," just "Virgil." Is that his first name, last name or something else altogether?
The problem with standards is that people keep making new ones.
Ah, what web sites (besides the obvious Windows Update) refuse to work with anything other than Windows? Just using Firefox on Windows there's plenty out there that only work with MS-IE. :(
I've got a better worst-case scenario: Thief boots laptop up with a Ghost CD and images the hard disk across a network or to an external drive connected by USB or FireWire, leaving no trace that the contents have been read since none of the a-times (assuming they're even turned on) have changed on the original filesystem.
The hard drive they're worried about in this case is an actually external USB drive (from memory), but you could do the same with that.