A number of people in my C++ class over the summer do just that with theirs. I tend to just zip and e-mail things to my yahoo account, but I can see this being nice.
I don't think you can boot from these yet. During Dell's little we're doing away with the floppy, not really media ploy I remember reading that there was no USB key boot standard yet.
Somewhere I read the average iPod owner made >= 100k per year. That number is probably fairly accurate in regard to Apple hardware in general. Sometimes I wonder if a number of Apple's customers never see a problem because they can afford to buy the next greatest thing the day it is announced and never really have any one machine for an extended period of time.
My Apple laptop gripe is right above you at the moment, so I'm probably offtopic as well, but I feel an intense need to point out it's Apple's shoddy hardware that has made me computerless for the first time in like 6 years, and I have no $ to get another one.
Prior to my iBook issues I had my sights set on a "15 Powerbook one day, now I'm afraid to drop that kind of cash on something I don't know I can rely on.
I've had two iBooks in the last yearish. I liked them very much. I primarly bought Apple hardware for OS X, but I was plesantly suprised by the nifty little things Apple puts into their hardware. For instance the magnetic display latch, the autosensing ethernet, and targeted FireWire disc mode. Battery life(after my defective one was replaced) was great too.
That said after having two of them die on me in a year period I don't know that I will ever buy another Apple product, and that sucks because I really like OS X. The first one is largely my fault, I dropped it, repaired it (mostly cosmetic damage) and then about a month later the backlight died on me. I had convinced my gf to buy one as well, and we shared that one for about 3 months and then about 3 weeks ago it up and died. From what I have been told it's a dead logic board. Same thing happened to another person I know. A lot of iBooks on eBay are being sold because this happened. I really like Apple products, but I can't have a machine that dies after 12 months. The second iBook was never even taken out of the house, never got wet, and in general was very well taken care of.
I've also had bad experiences with AppleCare (battery exchange where they charged me even though I'd sent the old one in on time), and from what I've read sending your dead/broken machine doesn't always work out so great.
As much as I don't want to go back my next machine will be a Thinkpad running a linux distro.
Yeah, that pisses me off. Especially since most games suck and I end up returning it the next day.
As far as scratches go, I saw a few years ago this product called a DVD condom. It was a little plastic slipcover type deal that stayed on the DVD, and if it go torn up you just replaced it with another one. I never understood why this didn't catch on with rental places. If DVD had been done right they'd all come in plastic like minidiscs do.
Introductory is even pushing it. I took one Java class, and I am by no means a Java expert and I found this article lacking. I hadn't heard any of these tips before, and then about the time I get into the article it ends.
XP Pro has a number of things I don't think have a place in corporate environments. Such as MSN Explorer, Messenger (the non-exchange one at least), Windows Movie Maker, Media Player, games. You would think that in the Pro version at least you could remove these things. I have been unsuccessful at ridding my work box of anything but Messenger.
The one I saw would send out a file transer request( Hi, want to see my new pic?), and if the user receiving the request answered in the affermative (Symantec had the whole list of things it'd accept) it'd transfer the file. If you looked at the file it was a VBS icon, and if you have hide known extentions off it was nameed something.jpg.vbs. So if you are paying attention to icons/extentions it should just get deleted. My girlfriend however wasn't paying attention. She ran it, it pops up a fake corrupt file message, and adds itself to the startup area of the registry. Then it just sends out more Want my new pic? messages to everyone on the infected user's list. It also dropped a file somewhere( can't remember where) that told you it meant no harm, and gave instructions on how to remove it.
So no it wasn't using any real loophole, although I am not sure why VBScript can send messages without your knowledge.
Where I work IM is forbidden, I know for a fact that AIM is blocked (not sure how), and them seem to have figured out how to block the AIM express applet as well. I am not sure about Messenger, since I don't use that on general principle. However the one glaring omission by our network was Jabber. I could get to ICQ/AIM and probably Messenger using Jabber.
Same sort of deal with me and the ACLU. I was like 16 or 17, and I gave them $20, which was a lot for me at that point (actually still is unfortunately). Then they started calling continually for 'special' causes. Pissed me off enough that I haven't given them anything since, although lately I feel that I should given the current political climate.
My phone says unknown caller. I don't know if what it says is phone based or provider, I have Bellsouth. Anyway a lot of legit calls come up as unknown for me, things like credit cards I am late or overlimit on. I figure they do that so I can't avoid them forever because I see caller id saying citibank.
The other thing about this list I don get is the charity exemption. Those are about the only calls we get, and most of them are questionable charites. And what's to stop telemarketers from donating like 1% of a sale to charity, and thus making the sales call a charity call as well?
Some of you may remember Swordfish, a massive pile of shit with John Travolta and a tan/buff/perfect hair 'hacker'. You probably also remember the Halle Barry topless scene in the middle that didn't really seem to serve any purpose, other than 'Damn we need some reason for people to sit through this shit'.
Repeat this brilliant move in TR3 Paramount. Suddenly 45 min into the film Laura feels an intense need to take a banana from a monkey (jungle scene) strip and creatively use that banana. It'll add a couple mil to the opening...
I work in support as well. I don't think there is any chance of Linux replacing Windows on the desktop overall. I think we'll gain some converts with NGSCB comes along, but not many. There are just to many applications only avail. on Windows, and people are used to how Windows works. I agree with Tim O'Reilly, who is basically saying that the next generation of apps are going to be internet based, and Linux is on the forefront of that. He often refers to Amazon.com and Google as examples of heavily used "applications" that are based on OSS. I think it'd do the OSS community well to continue building the foundation for the next generation of computing, where (hopefully) the network provides the useful applications and individual machine platform is irrelevant.
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I'd think it'd be a better move to use Evolution as a base and make it more GroupWise-like, Java client apps always kinda suck.
We're using both AD and NetWare I believe. Not sure why or how...
A number of people in my C++ class over the summer do just that with theirs. I tend to just zip and e-mail things to my yahoo account, but I can see this being nice.
I don't think you can boot from these yet. During Dell's little we're doing away with the floppy, not really media ploy I remember reading that there was no USB key boot standard yet.
These things are porn stashs for married men.
Somewhere I read the average iPod owner made >= 100k per year. That number is probably fairly accurate in regard to Apple hardware in general. Sometimes I wonder if a number of Apple's customers never see a problem because they can afford to buy the next greatest thing the day it is announced and never really have any one machine for an extended period of time.
My Apple laptop gripe is right above you at the moment, so I'm probably offtopic as well, but I feel an intense need to point out it's Apple's shoddy hardware that has made me computerless for the first time in like 6 years, and I have no $ to get another one.
Prior to my iBook issues I had my sights set on a "15 Powerbook one day, now I'm afraid to drop that kind of cash on something I don't know I can rely on.
I've had two iBooks in the last yearish. I liked them very much. I primarly bought Apple hardware for OS X, but I was plesantly suprised by the nifty little things Apple puts into their hardware. For instance the magnetic display latch, the autosensing ethernet, and targeted FireWire disc mode. Battery life(after my defective one was replaced) was great too.
That said after having two of them die on me in a year period I don't know that I will ever buy another Apple product, and that sucks because I really like OS X. The first one is largely my fault, I dropped it, repaired it (mostly cosmetic damage) and then about a month later the backlight died on me. I had convinced my gf to buy one as well, and we shared that one for about 3 months and then about 3 weeks ago it up and died. From what I have been told it's a dead logic board. Same thing happened to another person I know. A lot of iBooks on eBay are being sold because this happened. I really like Apple products, but I can't have a machine that dies after 12 months. The second iBook was never even taken out of the house, never got wet, and in general was very well taken care of.
I've also had bad experiences with AppleCare (battery exchange where they charged me even though I'd sent the old one in on time), and from what I've read sending your dead/broken machine doesn't always work out so great.
As much as I don't want to go back my next machine will be a Thinkpad running a linux distro.
I read nothing but good reviews of GTA, took about 3 days for me to hate that, and it was purchased not rented.
The most recent rental (I didn't choose it) was Army Men Sarge's Heros 2, which sucked. I wanted to get Mario Golf, but alas it was out...
Yeah, that pisses me off. Especially since most games suck and I end up returning it the next day.
As far as scratches go, I saw a few years ago this product called a DVD condom. It was a little plastic slipcover type deal that stayed on the DVD, and if it go torn up you just replaced it with another one. I never understood why this didn't catch on with rental places. If DVD had been done right they'd all come in plastic like minidiscs do.
Yeah, I have wondered about mIRC in WINE as well. And Acrobat Reader too.
Super Mario Kart is still to this day the best multiplayer game ever as far as I am concerned.
And I think some of the better recent games were the 3d/2d type games like Smash Brothers and DNMP.
Yes, sometimes I understand how suicide bombers must feel, and oddly it's always when I am in a Starbucks.
Introductory is even pushing it. I took one Java class, and I am by no means a Java expert and I found this article lacking. I hadn't heard any of these tips before, and then about the time I get into the article it ends.
XP Pro has a number of things I don't think have a place in corporate environments. Such as MSN Explorer, Messenger (the non-exchange one at least), Windows Movie Maker, Media Player, games. You would think that in the Pro version at least you could remove these things. I have been unsuccessful at ridding my work box of anything but Messenger.
The one I saw would send out a file transer request( Hi, want to see my new pic?), and if the user receiving the request answered in the affermative (Symantec had the whole list of things it'd accept) it'd transfer the file. If you looked at the file it was a VBS icon, and if you have hide known extentions off it was nameed something.jpg.vbs. So if you are paying attention to icons/extentions it should just get deleted. My girlfriend however wasn't paying attention. She ran it, it pops up a fake corrupt file message, and adds itself to the startup area of the registry. Then it just sends out more Want my new pic? messages to everyone on the infected user's list. It also dropped a file somewhere( can't remember where) that told you it meant no harm, and gave instructions on how to remove it.
So no it wasn't using any real loophole, although I am not sure why VBScript can send messages without your knowledge.
In addition to that I've seem some interesting little proof of concept worms come in through Messenger.
Where I work IM is forbidden, I know for a fact that AIM is blocked (not sure how), and them seem to have figured out how to block the AIM express applet as well. I am not sure about Messenger, since I don't use that on general principle. However the one glaring omission by our network was Jabber. I could get to ICQ/AIM and probably Messenger using Jabber.
Same sort of deal with me and the ACLU. I was like 16 or 17, and I gave them $20, which was a lot for me at that point (actually still is unfortunately). Then they started calling continually for 'special' causes. Pissed me off enough that I haven't given them anything since, although lately I feel that I should given the current political climate.
My phone says unknown caller. I don't know if what it says is phone based or provider, I have Bellsouth. Anyway a lot of legit calls come up as unknown for me, things like credit cards I am late or overlimit on. I figure they do that so I can't avoid them forever because I see caller id saying citibank.
The other thing about this list I don get is the charity exemption. Those are about the only calls we get, and most of them are questionable charites. And what's to stop telemarketers from donating like 1% of a sale to charity, and thus making the sales call a charity call as well?
Yeah...Photoshopping CG characters to be nude is just scary..
I have the opposite, my girlfriend hates Angelina Jolie and thus virtually everything she's in.
And if you think three days is bad....you must not live together.
Some of you may remember Swordfish, a massive pile of shit with John Travolta and a tan/buff/perfect hair 'hacker'. You probably also remember the Halle Barry topless scene in the middle that didn't really seem to serve any purpose, other than 'Damn we need some reason for people to sit through this shit'.
Repeat this brilliant move in TR3 Paramount. Suddenly 45 min into the film Laura feels an intense need to take a banana from a monkey (jungle scene) strip and creatively use that banana. It'll add a couple mil to the opening...
I work in support as well. I don't think there is any chance of Linux replacing Windows on the desktop overall. I think we'll gain some converts with NGSCB comes along, but not many. There are just to many applications only avail. on Windows, and people are used to how Windows works. I agree with Tim O'Reilly, who is basically saying that the next generation of apps are going to be internet based, and Linux is on the forefront of that. He often refers to Amazon.com and Google as examples of heavily used "applications" that are based on OSS. I think it'd do the OSS community well to continue building the foundation for the next generation of computing, where (hopefully) the network provides the useful applications and individual machine platform is irrelevant.
Tennessee is weird about porn in general.