"...important that the game isn't allowed to communicate with the Internet so the group advises users to block the game's executable in their firewall...."
Dotard Windows users are supposed to have the knowledge and skills to monkey with the firewall.
On the other hand borking your OS from the internet keeps me in business.
Remember when MS was blowing their horn about getting a "level 4" [some such] from the DoD for NT handling everything the threw at it.
Then when MS was packing up to go home, they held up the network cable and said "oh, how silly of us, never mind".
This does not surprise me since governments are MS #2 customer, right behind themselves. Do the math, all those VAR's, anti-? companies, etc, yep, "our customers wanted this"-----right.
Not sure if you are young or just need to get of SD and pay attention.
The USoA was over taken years ago. Welcome to the United Corporations and Churches of America. Where the *real product* is the Stock and the *true customer* is the Stock Holder.
Corporations have a legal obligation to increase share holder value.
If you want of the money-go-round then have a look at lists.thedatalist.com, everything is "what is says it is". If it says installing Google ToolBar that is fine - sneaking it is not. Some is free, some is share, some is pay. It up to you.
Open My Computer Click the Show Folders icon on the tool bar Navigate to the Windows [or WinNT] folder. there is a little icon on the right of the tool bar that will select "Show Details" Click on the "Date" column name until the top is the newest files.
Look for strange named DLL/EXE/INI. if they are after you noticed the pc got sick. Right Click the file and choose rename the put a _ at the start [if the machine works fine there easy to find and delete after a reboot]
You got #2 right on. The first thing I do is as when it got sick, then look for anything in that time frame. Usually not long before that may be dates from Windows update. Just cleaned one with many INI files. They were binary not text. Put a _ in front of the name to flag them.
But if you got one in WinLogOn...may well be hosed. That is the most difficult to get out.
I am really surprised at how many people here did not take Economics 101 or slept through the class.
All corporations have a legal responsibility to "INCREASE SHAREHOLDER VALUE" -- that is it, bottom line, you and I don't count.
And as far as that "consumer" attitude, I don't need that either, danged near starved to death at BestBuy with my mouth stuck on that TV trying to eat enough HD's. Tried bar-b-queing, baking, boiling, frying CD's and they are still tough and chewy.
Now, once again I will let you know that the USoA died in the 80's. It was replaced by the UCCA. The United Corporations and Churches of America. Where the real product is the stock and the true customer is the stockholder and if you don't go to someone's particular Sunday service you are toast - literally in their eyes.
And lastly I'm an administrator of 9-1-1 and the killing off of law enforcement radio freqs. just to have Digital HD Broadcast is a farce, because in a major fire the fire generates EMF that is a harmonic of the freq's and the firefighter walking into the building on the end of the hose will get/send only static. THANKS FCC for being another Hollywood Clueless Stooge.
It's a tie for me on Windows and Linux 3 & 3 machines. Windows no problem uninstall and install. Linux just a bit more. Got the DEB file, installed and changed the links from 2.4 location to 3.0 location. So both are still installed and usable.
What matters?
I don't need to spend the additional money for features [collaboration, exotic formatting and bloat] that are Microsoft. The most complex I have is a 38 sheet spreadsheet with rotated text boxes.
Does Joe Plumber even need that...didn't think so.
So no matter how you carve it up OpenOffice is a TCO winner.
this is much better [reported prior on/.]
http://gravity.phy.umassd.edu/ps3.html
16 PS3 cell processors for approximately 400 nodes
and not a bad price 16 * $500us or $8000 [less if you can stand ebay]
What do they not understand about *DO NOT CRAWL*?
Robots.TXT is just fine.
If it ain't broke, don't try to fix it.
So now I have to have a.robotaccees to go along with.htaccess?
What the initial law and this one just reinforces it is.......wait for it.....
DEAD BEAT DADS
and other non-conformants who have not *paid their dues*.
Parking tickets you have not paid?
Welcome to the UCCA [United Corperations and Churches of America].
Did you notice how the *lobbying* is doing ahead of the elections?
Less than 150 incompetent drivers died when a tire blew out and Firestone [the tires not the stores] became history.
But everything is OK in the name of the "War on Terror".
Front page paper today had a article the fire and ambulance people are being trained to "sniff out suspected terrorist and activities" -- http://www.caller.com/
Sad.....very sad.....but at my age I probably will not see The Big End(R) after 2016.
[eat, drink, and be merry....for tomorrow you will die in a dungeon somewhere]
The last line says it "could soon be available commercially".
Wonder if I need to start saving pocket change so I can put it on my SimplyMEPIS box?
Oh, wait they must be talking about having it run along side of Redmond-warez.
nothing here - move on...........
The lawyers will survive and so will management.
Go read LamLaw [http://www.lamlaw.com] about "the B word".
If you state "we own it".....then you are liable if you do not.
Use "up information and [B]elief" then you can believe in anything whether or not it is true....go free.
See it is just how you make your "word salad".
Put Bleu Cheese dressing on it and no one eats, do the super creamy Ranch and they eat it up.
MS is a "marketing company".
The have created very little "innovation".
Bill's dad is a big time lawyer and lobbyist, he taught Bill well.
Last year the big flack was over the misuse of the words consistently and constantly.
You have to read everything very carefully these days, as the use of one word that you will not catch can completely change the concept and meaning of the document. [read accept the EULA and you are screwed]
--wap3
1) The MS way:
Buy the new copy of 'winders
But beware of the new statement by the "Software Police" [BSA-Business Software Alliance] that "You need an 'original' receipt with 'your name' on it otherwise = PIRATED.
That means if you buy it from the local BigBox 'Puter Store for cash = PIRATED, with your bank/credit card = PIRATED.
They need to go and make the purchase and ensure that their name is on it.
2) The QUICK way:
Download SimplyMEPIS [http://www.simplymepis.org] which is based on Ubuntu with the best eXPee look/feel.
Purchase a new 80 gig harddrive [less than $50us on www.newegg.com].
Install MEPIS on new drive [note it is hdb not hda ['winders'] and set GRUB to dual boot.
Disable 'winders from the intranetz, just for doing those special programs and games where there is not an alternative for Linux
3) the BEST way:
Save all data to CD's or USB Flash.
Do a full install of MEPIS and copy data into the home folders
4) the ULTIMATE way:
get MEPIS, CentOS 4.3 [http://www.centos.org], get VMware Server [www.vmware.com], create all cd's
back up 'winders data to cd's or flash usb
install CentOS - be sure to do "development programs" and use Gnome Desktop nothing else is needed.
install VMware
create VM for MEPIS [use Ubuntu base and set HD for IDE -- NOT SCSI]
install MEPIS into the VM
create VM for 'Winders - I will not discuss the "license issue"
install winders and the "speical needed" games and apps
1) download VMware Server [http://www.vmware.com]
2) register to get serial number
3) install VMware
4) download favorite Linux Distro ISO
5) burn ISO
6) put CD in tray
7) Start VMware and Create New VM
8) start VM to install Linux
9) if distro does not already have Evolution then install it
10) PROFIT............
never, ever, ever use anything other than a old plastic credit card to remove the old paste [or AMD bubblegum] ! !
you do not want to lay any scratches into the sink [cpu is much tougher] these are machined to be paralled to the cpu and flat.
I use only Artic Silver, even CompUSA store as the small tube for about $10
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Well, well, Mr. Evil Suckabug.... Monetize this $ ; ; ! ; ,
"...important that the game isn't allowed to communicate with the Internet so the group advises users to block the game's executable in their firewall...."
Dotard Windows users are supposed to have the knowledge and skills to monkey with the firewall.
On the other hand borking your OS from the internet keeps me in business.
Why is everyone going to realize that "bundling" in not the crux of the matter.
It is COMMINGLING THE CODE that is the problem.
MS has been doing that all along.
Do you need networking? No fine. Yes which one, Novell, MS, etc.
Do you need a brower? No, fine. Yes which one, MS, Firefox, Opera, [and 100 others]
This should be part of the install or desktop icons.
All of MS website should be W3 standards compliant and not rely on Exploder. There is a monopoly violation, since I use Firefox.
REMOVE ALL code that is not essential to devices and presentation and let the customer decide what to have.
So where is the DoJ.
The 800lb gorilla and the wild elephant are tearing up the china shop.
Seriously, this is using your ILLEGAL Monopoly to control other markets and that is ILLEGAL.
Will just to wait and see of our new set of congress-critters are neutered or have some brass one.
Remember when MS was blowing their horn about getting a "level 4" [some such] from the DoD for NT handling everything the threw at it.
Then when MS was packing up to go home, they held up the network cable and said "oh, how silly of us, never mind".
This does not surprise me since governments are MS #2 customer, right behind themselves.
Do the math, all those VAR's, anti-? companies, etc, yep, "our customers wanted this"-----right.
Could not have said it better myself.
And I might add:
If your not part of the solution, then there are plenty of big bucks to be made prolonging the problem.
And as my doctor once said:
A patient cured, is a customer lost.
Would you basement dwellers get a real job so you have enough money to Pay Attention.
It is not about BUNDLING - placing IE icon on the desktop. Never has been.
It is about CO-MINGLING the code such that only IE is the "brower".
Removing the icon is not removing the code.
If you want a lawyers point of view got read http://www.lamlaw.com/
He explains it very pointedly.
Not sure if you are young or just need to get of SD and pay attention.
The USoA was over taken years ago.
Welcome to the United Corporations and Churches of America.
Where the *real product* is the Stock and
the *true customer* is the Stock Holder.
Corporations have a legal obligation to increase share holder value.
If you want of the money-go-round then have a look at lists.thedatalist.com, everything is "what is says it is". If it says installing Google ToolBar that is fine - sneaking it is not.
Some is free, some is share, some is pay.
It up to you.
Mepis will cure that www.mepis.org
Open My Computer
Click the Show Folders icon on the tool bar
Navigate to the Windows [or WinNT] folder.
there is a little icon on the right of the tool bar that will select "Show Details"
Click on the "Date" column name until the top is the newest files.
Look for strange named DLL/EXE/INI.
if they are after you noticed the pc got sick.
Right Click the file and choose rename the put a _ at the start [if the machine works fine there easy to find and delete after a reboot]
But the real answer is Mepis.
The last machine I clean needed 49 updates do to the malware shutting it down.
At no point did I get "Would you like to install MS Reoval Tool [Y/N]?"
All that was there was "Installing KBxxxxxxx".
Like that really helps
Stupid Microsoft.!>!>!
You got #2 right on.
The first thing I do is as when it got sick, then look for anything in that time frame.
Usually not long before that may be dates from Windows update.
Just cleaned one with many INI files.
They were binary not text.
Put a _ in front of the name to flag them.
But if you got one in WinLogOn...may well be hosed.
That is the most difficult to get out.
I am really surprised at how many people here did not take Economics 101 or slept through the class.
All corporations have a legal responsibility to "INCREASE SHAREHOLDER VALUE" -- that is it, bottom line, you and I don't count.
And as far as that "consumer" attitude, I don't need that either, danged near starved to death at BestBuy with my mouth stuck on that TV trying to eat enough HD's. Tried bar-b-queing, baking, boiling, frying CD's and they are still tough and chewy.
Now, once again I will let you know that the USoA died in the 80's. It was replaced by the UCCA. The United Corporations and Churches of America.
Where the real product is the stock and the true customer is the stockholder and if you don't go to someone's particular Sunday service you are toast - literally in their eyes.
And lastly I'm an administrator of 9-1-1 and the killing off of law enforcement radio freqs. just to have Digital HD Broadcast is a farce, because in a major fire the fire generates EMF that is a harmonic of the freq's and the firefighter walking into the building on the end of the hose will get/send only static. THANKS FCC for being another Hollywood Clueless Stooge.
It's a tie for me on Windows and Linux 3 & 3 machines.
Windows no problem uninstall and install.
Linux just a bit more.
Got the DEB file, installed and changed the links from 2.4 location to 3.0 location. So both are still installed and usable.
What matters?
I don't need to spend the additional money for features [collaboration, exotic formatting and bloat] that are Microsoft.
The most complex I have is a 38 sheet spreadsheet with rotated text boxes.
Does Joe Plumber even need that...didn't think so.
So no matter how you carve it up OpenOffice is a TCO winner.
this is much better [reported prior on /.]
http://gravity.phy.umassd.edu/ps3.html
16 PS3 cell processors for approximately 400 nodes
and not a bad price 16 * $500us or $8000 [less if you can stand ebay]
What do they not understand about *DO NOT CRAWL*? Robots.TXT is just fine. If it ain't broke, don't try to fix it. So now I have to have a .robotaccees to go along with .htaccess?
What the initial law and this one just reinforces it is.......wait for it..... DEAD BEAT DADS and other non-conformants who have not *paid their dues*. Parking tickets you have not paid? Welcome to the UCCA [United Corperations and Churches of America]. Did you notice how the *lobbying* is doing ahead of the elections?
Less than 150 incompetent drivers died when a tire blew out and Firestone [the tires not the stores] became history. But everything is OK in the name of the "War on Terror". Front page paper today had a article the fire and ambulance people are being trained to "sniff out suspected terrorist and activities" -- http://www.caller.com/ Sad.....very sad.....but at my age I probably will not see The Big End(R) after 2016. [eat, drink, and be merry....for tomorrow you will die in a dungeon somewhere]
The last line says it "could soon be available commercially". Wonder if I need to start saving pocket change so I can put it on my SimplyMEPIS box? Oh, wait they must be talking about having it run along side of Redmond-warez. nothing here - move on...........
The lawyers will survive and so will management. Go read LamLaw [http://www.lamlaw.com] about "the B word". If you state "we own it".....then you are liable if you do not. Use "up information and [B]elief" then you can believe in anything whether or not it is true....go free. See it is just how you make your "word salad". Put Bleu Cheese dressing on it and no one eats, do the super creamy Ranch and they eat it up.
for backup including FTP I have been using Cobian Backup for years http://www.educ.umu.se/~cobian/cobianbackup.htm for sync [copy files on both ends] Horodruin is in use daily night at home morning and afternoon at office http://stefanobordoni.interfree.it/Stefano/horodru in.htm
MS is a "marketing company". The have created very little "innovation". Bill's dad is a big time lawyer and lobbyist, he taught Bill well. Last year the big flack was over the misuse of the words consistently and constantly. You have to read everything very carefully these days, as the use of one word that you will not catch can completely change the concept and meaning of the document. [read accept the EULA and you are screwed] --wap3
1) The MS way: Buy the new copy of 'winders But beware of the new statement by the "Software Police" [BSA-Business Software Alliance] that "You need an 'original' receipt with 'your name' on it otherwise = PIRATED. That means if you buy it from the local BigBox 'Puter Store for cash = PIRATED, with your bank/credit card = PIRATED. They need to go and make the purchase and ensure that their name is on it. 2) The QUICK way: Download SimplyMEPIS [http://www.simplymepis.org] which is based on Ubuntu with the best eXPee look/feel. Purchase a new 80 gig harddrive [less than $50us on www.newegg.com]. Install MEPIS on new drive [note it is hdb not hda ['winders'] and set GRUB to dual boot. Disable 'winders from the intranetz, just for doing those special programs and games where there is not an alternative for Linux 3) the BEST way: Save all data to CD's or USB Flash. Do a full install of MEPIS and copy data into the home folders 4) the ULTIMATE way: get MEPIS, CentOS 4.3 [http://www.centos.org], get VMware Server [www.vmware.com], create all cd's back up 'winders data to cd's or flash usb install CentOS - be sure to do "development programs" and use Gnome Desktop nothing else is needed. install VMware create VM for MEPIS [use Ubuntu base and set HD for IDE -- NOT SCSI] install MEPIS into the VM create VM for 'Winders - I will not discuss the "license issue" install winders and the "speical needed" games and apps
1) download VMware Server [http://www.vmware.com] 2) register to get serial number 3) install VMware 4) download favorite Linux Distro ISO 5) burn ISO 6) put CD in tray 7) Start VMware and Create New VM 8) start VM to install Linux 9) if distro does not already have Evolution then install it 10) PROFIT............
Get satellite yep it costs http://www.nationwidesatellite.com/HughesNet/servi ce_plans/HughesNet_plans.asp
The special is $100 more than the upfront + monthly but you dont have to pony up the $$$ for the equipment. So $100 for the "payment plan" is not that bad
Read everything, like no guarantee on speed. YMMV
never, ever, ever use anything other than a old plastic credit card to remove the old paste [or AMD bubblegum] ! ! you do not want to lay any scratches into the sink [cpu is much tougher] these are machined to be paralled to the cpu and flat. I use only Artic Silver, even CompUSA store as the small tube for about $10