I think its terrible that this will be another lower-than-CD-quality-for-more-$$$-than-a-CD online shop. Distribution costs? Negligable compared to distribution of 5" circles of plastic. Profit? Yes please
They (*AA et al.) bitch about P2P killing their business. Since joining a closed p2p network, I have bought more CDs in the last 6 months than I have in about the last 5 years. http://www.ubernet.org/ Music ripped with Exact audio copy and encoded with LAME using the --alt-preset's. Also some OGG and FLAC.
I don't know if anyone attempted to use Kazaa lately. But 98% of anything I download off Kazaa has been decrypted with an annoying buzz noise. You can't even get songs off Kazaa P2P anymore.
And sharezilla sucks, everyone I know who installed it has gotten blue screens of death. Is there a linux P2P alternative? There, U2 shouldn't worry.
Ubernet. No more shit quality MP3s. We use direct connect, so Linux clients can be used (though the rest of the SW used is Windows only).
90% of the mp3's traded on kazaa and the others are at a lower quality than any of my 3rd generation casettes from the early 80's and are of junk quality already.
Yeah, most of the music on P2P is rubbish quality. And when people try to rip good MP3s they still often get it wrong in some way. Maybe they used LAME, but ripped with some awful piece of junkware, that just goes for speed with no error checking.
So I was chuffed when I found Übernet, a private Direct Connect network. The music traded is based around the uberstandard, basically CDs ripped with Exact Audio Copy and encoded with LAME set to APS, APX or API (though API is insane for a reason...). We also trade OGG and FLAC.
The ironic thing is, I have bought more CDs since joining Ubernet than I had in a good few years. P2P killing sales?
Re:I've set up a GNU/Linux machine for my kids too
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A number of the kids' games I've loaded on my XP machine won't run properly unless logged in as admin
Hmm, what a surprise - badly written software.
There's a couple of things you could try: Change the file permissions on the game directory to enable user's to be able to write to it. By default on NT etc., user's get read and execute on the \program files directory. I guess the game could be trying to update config info in the game's directory, and failing.
Now this is probably BS. I believe that some copy protection works by changing the code on the fly. (This is based on something I read about AV, and how if AV looked for code changing as its being run, then it ould probably pick up CD copy protection as thats how it works). On the basis of this lame premis, I think that the user would need the debug priviledge. You can assign priviledges to a user or group though the local computer policy editor, start, run, gpedit.msc.
in fact there are automated tools out there that will generate exploits for common holes like buffer/stack overflows.
The name of the worm comes from the "insert witty comment here" phrase in the worm itself.... Either there's a tool that has that request in it, and the author overlooked it, or its the writer taking the piss by trying to make the worm look like its been written using some kind of tool.
[Windows and Linux are] still are missing very granular rights - try revoking permissions to list, read, rename, delete, copy or execute individually on these platforms.
On Windows you can edit the ACLs from the command line using cacls. More functionality is available with xcacls, but I don't think it can do all the operations you listed.
..."The Internet" being the AOL homepage!...
I thought they put the whole intarweb on a CD though?
But seriously, a few years ago I shared a house with students. One of their mothers was massively computer illiterate, and thought the Internet was an (hardware) upgrade that you fitted to a PC....
Though, it would be fun to win just once or twice....
And the dots mean???... That the free songs give your kids a couple of goes on ITMS. This is exactly what the promotion is for, to get new punters in because the pigopolists know just how much pressure kids have over the buying power of parents.
A lot of parents will have seen the "P2P is illegal"[1] propaganda from the **AA, and when they see their kid happily using iTunes they'll feel much happier than when the kid's using kazaa.
[1] P2P obviously isn't illegal, but Harry Homeowner will believe anything when it comes from a good big company like Pepsi/sarcasm
So how feasible is a "zapper" that will render RFID's useless? The idea is you come home and run your new purchases throught some sort of scanner...and poof! Normal merchandise again.
How about an EMP? Just take your kit to the south Pacific and let the French test some more nukes. Or wait for Bush to have a go at North Korea, and the nuke's will come to you...
I don't know about the rest of you, but I clicked on a funny link from a prior Slashdot thread that had an intentionally altered URL. The big shocker was, IE parsed it like it was no big deal, but my virus scanner picked up the malicious code. It warned me that the URL was modified by a bug in Internet Explorer, and allowed me to continue or back out.
FWIW, sophos hasn't said anything at all when I've done similar. But Sophos isn't really a "user's" AV product, its business protection. The phishing scams should be getting nailed on your mail servers, and shouldn't be getting to the user's desktop. No doubt Sophos would try and sell you their mail server AV for this:)
I posted this when there was the Adobe news, but I caught the end of the discussion. But, FWIW, Canon's Windows software will not allow cash to be scanned either.
Are you running Java already? This takes no effort!
www.astrobastards/uc [www.astrobastards] runs a client on your PC that works with a team of spam fighters by filling in the forms for all those "mortgage loan" spams with believable junk. That URL's wrong. Try this: http://www.astrobastards.net/uc/index.jsp
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My first computer was the good ol' Atari 2600. Mmmm, wood finish:) A tandy games thing, C64, amiga 500s, PCs... now.
But back in the '80s, my Dad set up the home with the central heating controlled by a Commodore 64. It was custom software on external tape, with different programs for summer and winter. The software controlled 10 zones, 7 "rooms" (the hallways in the house counted as 1 room for instance), 2 towel rails and the hot water. The C64 was wired, presumably via a com port, to relays which controlled the oil-fired boiler being on or off, and valves on the hot water pipes.
Each room in the house had a temperature gauge and a radiator, a dial for manual heat setting, and a switch to toggle between manual and comuter temperature control. The c64 was programmed to set to heat certain rooms at certain times of the day, to ceratin temperatures. The hot water could be turned on easily too, via software or via a pull cord in the kitchen. The TV out that the C64 gave was connected to the TV cabling in the house, so you change to a channel on the tele in the lounge or a bedroom and see what rooms has heating on, and their tempatures, times heating was due...
By the time the system was done, it had a custom UPS as lived in the middle of nowhere, and power cuts were frequent. Reloading the C64 was a pain, so my Dad sorted out a battery backup system. It could run the C64 for a good while, but when the batteries died, so would the C64. And without the C64 there was no heating (without grovelling into a way cavity to flick the valves mannually).
I moved out in 1996, but since then my parents have split up and the house has been sold. But AFAIK, the system is still going strong. It was when my parents moved out in 2001. That C64 must have had monster uptimes thinking about it....
Getting advertising despite paying for a service (for example, with cable TV, or TV license fees (YUCK!) in some European countries.
Here in the UK our TV licence funds the BBC, who do not have adverts (apart from plugs for things like other programs, their website...) on any of their TV channels or the radio. I am perfectly happy to pay 10UKP/month for some advert free TV and radio.
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I think its terrible that this will be another lower-than-CD-quality-for-more-$$$-than-a-CD online shop. Distribution costs? Negligable compared to distribution of 5" circles of plastic. Profit? Yes please
They (*AA et al.) bitch about P2P killing their business. Since joining a closed p2p network, I have bought more CDs in the last 6 months than I have in about the last 5 years. http://www.ubernet.org/ Music ripped with Exact audio copy and encoded with LAME using the --alt-preset's. Also some OGG and FLAC.
Most likely, the album was coming out in November for the Christmas market. It could be finished now....
And sharezilla sucks, everyone I know who installed it has gotten blue screens of death. Is there a linux P2P alternative? There, U2 shouldn't worry.
Ubernet. No more shit quality MP3s. We use direct connect, so Linux clients can be used (though the rest of the SW used is Windows only).
90% of the mp3's traded on kazaa and the others are at a lower quality than any of my 3rd generation casettes from the early 80's and are of junk quality already.
Yeah, most of the music on P2P is rubbish quality. And when people try to rip good MP3s they still often get it wrong in some way. Maybe they used LAME, but ripped with some awful piece of junkware, that just goes for speed with no error checking.
So I was chuffed when I found Übernet, a private Direct Connect network. The music traded is based around the uberstandard, basically CDs ripped with Exact Audio Copy and encoded with LAME set to APS, APX or API (though API is insane for a reason...). We also trade OGG and FLAC.
The ironic thing is, I have bought more CDs since joining Ubernet than I had in a good few years. P2P killing sales?
Quick google search reveals this too:u ry.html
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/ice/ice_merc
Hmm, what a surprise - badly written software.
There's a couple of things you could try: Change the file permissions on the game directory to enable user's to be able to write to it. By default on NT etc., user's get read and execute on the \program files directory. I guess the game could be trying to update config info in the game's directory, and failing.
Now this is probably BS. I believe that some copy protection works by changing the code on the fly. (This is based on something I read about AV, and how if AV looked for code changing as its being run, then it ould probably pick up CD copy protection as thats how it works). On the basis of this lame premis, I think that the user would need the debug priviledge. You can assign priviledges to a user or group though the local computer policy editor, start, run, gpedit.msc.
Otherwise ask Jeeves :) . Or apply a no-CD crack.
I thought it was 11 out of 10 in Florida?
here : j@ww.com , no spam will get through because you're still missing the password
I hope the password's not viagra, or some l33t speak typo variant.
The name of the worm comes from the "insert witty comment here" phrase in the worm itself.... Either there's a tool that has that request in it, and the author overlooked it, or its the writer taking the piss by trying to make the worm look like its been written using some kind of tool.
On Windows you can edit the ACLs from the command line using cacls. More functionality is available with xcacls, but I don't think it can do all the operations you listed.
You might want to have a look at Ubernet
I thought they put the whole intarweb on a CD though?
But seriously, a few years ago I shared a house with students. One of their mothers was massively computer illiterate, and thought the Internet was an (hardware) upgrade that you fitted to a PC....
Well no. They can't comment if they moderate now, can they?
Moderators can comment, it just undoes the moderation.
That's the UK press through and through. Even worse when its press + IT.
And the dots mean???... That the free songs give your kids a couple of goes on ITMS. This is exactly what the promotion is for, to get new punters in because the pigopolists know just how much pressure kids have over the buying power of parents.
A lot of parents will have seen the "P2P is illegal"[1] propaganda from the **AA, and when they see their kid happily using iTunes they'll feel much happier than when the kid's using kazaa.
[1] P2P obviously isn't illegal, but Harry Homeowner will believe anything when it comes from a good big company like Pepsi /sarcasm
They mean a stylophone?
How about an EMP? Just take your kit to the south Pacific and let the French test some more nukes. Or wait for Bush to have a go at North Korea, and the nuke's will come to you...
http://setiathome.berkeley.edu"
[1] Or at least they have in the past, its "unknown" at the moment.
I don't know about the rest of you, but I clicked on a funny link from a prior Slashdot thread that had an intentionally altered URL. The big shocker was, IE parsed it like it was no big deal, but my virus scanner picked up the malicious code. It warned me that the URL was modified by a bug in Internet Explorer, and allowed me to continue or back out.
:)
FWIW, sophos hasn't said anything at all when I've done similar. But Sophos isn't really a "user's" AV product, its business protection. The phishing scams should be getting nailed on your mail servers, and shouldn't be getting to the user's desktop. No doubt Sophos would try and sell you their mail server AV for this
I posted this when there was the Adobe news, but I caught the end of the discussion. But, FWIW, Canon's Windows software will not allow cash to be scanned either.
I built a system for my Dad (XP home, scanner etc.), and has to test the scanner worked
Are you running Java already? This takes no effort! www.astrobastards/uc [www.astrobastards] runs a client on your PC that works with a team of spam fighters by filling in the forms for all those "mortgage loan" spams with believable junk.
That URL's wrong. Try this: http://www.astrobastards.net/uc/index.jsp
My first computer was the good ol' Atari 2600. Mmmm, wood finish :) A tandy games thing, C64, amiga 500s, PCs... now.
But back in the '80s, my Dad set up the home with the central heating controlled by a Commodore 64. It was custom software on external tape, with different programs for summer and winter. The software controlled 10 zones, 7 "rooms" (the hallways in the house counted as 1 room for instance), 2 towel rails and the hot water. The C64 was wired, presumably via a com port, to relays which controlled the oil-fired boiler being on or off, and valves on the hot water pipes.
Each room in the house had a temperature gauge and a radiator, a dial for manual heat setting, and a switch to toggle between manual and comuter temperature control. The c64 was programmed to set to heat certain rooms at certain times of the day, to ceratin temperatures. The hot water could be turned on easily too, via software or via a pull cord in the kitchen. The TV out that the C64 gave was connected to the TV cabling in the house, so you change to a channel on the tele in the lounge or a bedroom and see what rooms has heating on, and their tempatures, times heating was due...
By the time the system was done, it had a custom UPS as lived in the middle of nowhere, and power cuts were frequent. Reloading the C64 was a pain, so my Dad sorted out a battery backup system. It could run the C64 for a good while, but when the batteries died, so would the C64. And without the C64 there was no heating (without grovelling into a way cavity to flick the valves mannually).
I moved out in 1996, but since then my parents have split up and the house has been sold. But AFAIK, the system is still going strong. It was when my parents moved out in 2001. That C64 must have had monster uptimes thinking about it....
Getting advertising despite paying for a service (for example, with cable TV, or TV license fees (YUCK!) in some European countries. Here in the UK our TV licence funds the BBC, who do not have adverts (apart from plugs for things like other programs, their website...) on any of their TV channels or the radio. I am perfectly happy to pay 10UKP/month for some advert free TV and radio.