If you believe your Windows security best practices are up to snuff, you may paste this link into your browser to initiate a self test:
tinyurl.com/b8oqu
Disclaimer: Do not under any circumstances do that from a computer that's running any version of Windows, no matter what your precautions are. Unpleasantness will occur. You were warned.
I'm doing the best I can at my house against this thing, but looking at the 7+ Windows boxes I'm now worrying about updating, installing, patching and unregistering, and the 1 Apple laptop I haven't had to restart in 6 months, and I wonder if this is going to be the big one that really gives Microsoft the black eye it can't recover from.
If you're an IT pro and you're running Windows at home, you should have your boxes imaged so you can just unhook from the net, image, apply the fix, take a new image and hook back up to the net. Seven boxen shouldn't take you more than a couple hours -- less if you use a standard image.
If you're setting this up for the first time, don't forget to redirect "My Documents" to a different partition, or better yet a server with a backup regime. Oh, yeah, and choose the "Activate Windows over the phone" option before you make your first image so you don't have to re-activate each time.
If you're an IT pro and you're not using Windows at home, take the extra hours and spend some holiday time with your friends and family. Life is short.
The evilness that is the RIAA may have spawned here, but it is no more American than BP.
Corporate monsters are a side effect of liberty and capitalism. Yes, they do rise and must be slain, but they are easier to quell than the monsters that arise under other systems.
The real America and real Americans want for you the same thing they want for themselves: the liberty to do as you will so long as it harm none, the opportunity to provide for yourself and your family, the security of a stable society in which to ply your trade, a government that serves you rather than the reverse, a little fun now and then.
If our implementation differs from the ideal, please forgive us. We're working on it. Look around and you'll seen that others have fared not so well.
Where I live the environment isn't going to kill me. I would say exactly where, but while I would hope people would evacuate their own unsustainable environments, I don't want them coming here and making mine unsustainable.
As for the Dutchmen, it seems their government can be trusted to maintain their flood control system for the medium term. In the long term water seeks its own level. Water does not tire of this endeavor, it does not rest. It does not stop. Ever. Humans can resist natural forces like this for a very long time, but we make errors. Some of us cheat, lie, steal, or neglect our duty. We forget. We die. Sometimes we try and fail by overestimating our abilities. Ultimately one day some concatenation of failures will let the water in. Where did the Dutchmen live before they drove back the sea? If the answer is that there were fewer of them, then you have your answer. The excess should have fled rather than develop an answer that's unsustainable in the long term.
Really this article and the previous one about global warming (and many other problems) have this in common:
If you take a long enough view, you will see these problems work themselves out. Your goal is not to find the solution. It's to survive it. If you are in an area that's resource poor, move.
The fact that so many otherwise smart people have trouble with this simple answer defies reason.
If you live in a country with a repressive regime, escape. If the drought has been going on for more than five years, it's a climate change. Move. If your city is below sea level, you should not live there. Move. If your climate is inhospitable to human life, leave it for the creatures that like it and move. Is your region so crowded with other people that life there is unsustainable? Get OUT.
This is not so complicated. You are blessed with the power of locomotion. Use it.
Last quarter SCO had just about one quarter's worth of cash and equivalents left. It will be interesting to see if and how they scavenged enough money to keep going.
It's time for Darl the Optimist to tell us about the plans for SCOForum again I guess.
We expect that our UNIX business
will generate sufficient cash in the year ending October 31, 2005 to cover its
own costs as well as the internal costs for our SCOsource initiatives and we
believe we will have sufficient cash resources to fund our operations through
October 31, 2005.
In the event that cash required to fund operations and strategic initiatives
exceeds our current cash resources and cash generated from operating
activities, we will be required to reduce costs and raise additional capital.
We may not be able to reduce costs in a manner that does not impair our ability
to maintain our UNIX business and pursue our SCOsource initiatives. We also may
not be able to raise capital for any number of reasons including those listed
under the section "Risk Factors" below. If additional equity financing is
available, it may not be available to us on attractive terms and may be
dilutive to our existing stockholders. In addition, if our stock price
declines, we may not be able to access the public equity markets on acceptable
terms, if at all. Our ability to effect acquisitions for stock would also be
impaired.
[...]
Our ability to cut costs to offset revenue declines in our UNIX business is
limited because of contractual commitments to maintain and support our existing
UNIX customers. This decline in our UNIX business may be accelerated if
industry partners withdraw their support as a result of our SCOsource
initiatives. Our SCOsource initiatives may cause industry partners, developers
and hardware and software vendors to choose not to support or certify to our
UNIX operating system products. This would lead to an accelerated decline in
our UNIX products and services revenue. If our UNIX products and services
revenue is less than expected, our liquidity will be adversely impacted.
It reads like Halloween is going to be a critical day for SCOX. Everybody's migrating off of their products that can = no sales revenue. Nobody's sending in their $699 for Linux = no SCOsource revenue. Baystar debacle = no equity financing (Hey, Baystar, why are you still holding so many shares?). On the cost side you've still got "fulfillment of contractual obligations" and overhead even if your Sophists are working for a cut of your pie in the sky.
Report also says they still had 50 on R&D payroll as of 7/31/05. Are there no other jobs available guys?
I think "liquidity will be adversely impacted" is accountantese for "Padlock the doors. Don't bother turning out the lights--the electric company already did."
I haven't heard of this band, I haven't listened to the album even. I bought the full kit also. The price was very reasonable and buying the music this way makes sense because you usually don't get to hear the stuff first anyway.
Now I've downloaded the torrent and I'll find out if it's any good. If the music totally bites I'll still leave the torrent up for a few months. If it doesn't totally bite everybody in my extended family is getting this for the holidays. I hope they rake it in and that we get to find out how well they do. Most especially I hope they rake it in and other artists find out how well they do.
DRM sucks and if supporting this experiment is how we avoid it, I'm all in favor of that. That a good profit for these guys is money that escapes the RIAA is just a pleasant bonus.
Serious impacts are a low enough probability event not to worry about at this point; if our planet becomes uninhabitable for humans, it will be self-inflicted and there are far simpler ways of preventing that than space flight.
You are confused about probability.
The probability mankind will be wiped out by an object from space today is low enough almost no sane person would be concerned about it. The probability it might occur in your lifetime is low enough it causes you no concern.
However it's not just likely the earth will be struck by an object large enough to cause mass extinctions -- in the fullness of time it is a certainty. We don't all need to worry about this but if mankind is to survive to reach the galactic diaspora you wrote of someone must.
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The guy who recommended to Comcast that they stick with good, old reliable Windows NT4 for DNS service just joined the unemployment line.
They'll be back up in a week or two.
In regard to your notice identified as follows:
> Notice ID:7957592
> Notice Date:16 Dec 2004 01:18:22 GMT
I have no idea what you're talking about. Could it be related to my new WiFi Router? Ever since I installed it the internet has been slow. It's possible my neighbor is using it.
Please send instructions on how to find out from my router what's going on.
I have a real life. I don't spend $3,000 on hardware and hundreds on games to interact with average people in normal costume. That I get for free. I spend that much on games because I _want_ to escape real life for a while and enjoy a fantasy world where I have the biggest gun and all the women are clones of Jeri Ryan.
That's my target product. Myst you can keep for yourself. Thanks.
In Ephrata, WA the local power district put in fiber to the premises of every home, in order to support a new IP based electricity meter. The idea was to save money on manual meter reading. Coincidentally they discovered they could serve internet on it, since the meters used a negligible portion of the available bandwidth.
The electricity meters never materialized (the vendor went bankrupt before delivery) but they have gigabit internet to everyone who wants it, for about $50 a month. The endeavor, rather than costing money in a public boondoggle (as a previous poster suggested) has turned a good profit, and avoided the horrid cost of a failed public project (the non-extant power meters).
Because they had it in before the recent rulings on this subject, the people in the tiny farming town of Ephrata get far more bandwidth than us here in town, for far less.
There's a similar story in Tacoma, WA, where if you live inside the city limits you can get cable and 10Mbps internet from the municipal power company for a fraction of what I pay just for cable. Just over the city line (and served by the same power company)? Can't help ya.
I like my Comcast cable Internet. It only goes down for a few minutes at a time a few times a month. It's got 3Mbps down and 768K up. I couldn't go back to DSL. The price is steep though, and they won't ever have any competition to speak of to drive their prices down. I sure do envy those folks whose government was looking out for them. But not enough to move to Ephrata (the sticks) or Tacoma (uptown).
We are all just a WAP wizard away from ubiquitous WiFi. Be the wizard!
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No, it couldn't be. Your website bites. Having seen it one can see the desolation of the field from which your opinion grew. I'm sorry.
Port == OK
Port sniffer != OK
No, I thought I had it for a moment there, but I just don't get the connection either.
It's a Visa card?
"Imagine a beowulf cluster of those..."
If you believe your Windows security best practices are up to snuff, you may paste this link into your browser to initiate a self test:
tinyurl.com/b8oqu
Disclaimer: Do not under any circumstances do that from a computer that's running any version of Windows, no matter what your precautions are. Unpleasantness will occur. You were warned.
I believe great thinkers on Albert Einstein's level are born every week somewhere in the world. The vast majority of them:
Vast amounts of untapped human potential lie all around us. But so what? The world needs bartenders too.
If you're an IT pro and you're running Windows at home, you should have your boxes imaged so you can just unhook from the net, image, apply the fix, take a new image and hook back up to the net. Seven boxen shouldn't take you more than a couple hours -- less if you use a standard image.
If you're setting this up for the first time, don't forget to redirect "My Documents" to a different partition, or better yet a server with a backup regime. Oh, yeah, and choose the "Activate Windows over the phone" option before you make your first image so you don't have to re-activate each time.
If you're an IT pro and you're not using Windows at home, take the extra hours and spend some holiday time with your friends and family. Life is short.
Oh shucks! Now I dunnit.
The evilness that is the RIAA may have spawned here, but it is no more American than BP.
Corporate monsters are a side effect of liberty and capitalism. Yes, they do rise and must be slain, but they are easier to quell than the monsters that arise under other systems.
The real America and real Americans want for you the same thing they want for themselves: the liberty to do as you will so long as it harm none, the opportunity to provide for yourself and your family, the security of a stable society in which to ply your trade, a government that serves you rather than the reverse, a little fun now and then.
If our implementation differs from the ideal, please forgive us. We're working on it. Look around and you'll seen that others have fared not so well.
Unfortunately, I can't seem to get this exploit business to work. It just sits there like any other image file, doing nothing.
Sadly, like other .wmf files, it won't even display.
Do you know of any software I can get for Fedora Core 4 that will help me explore this situation further?
You're looking for http://www.sugardvd.com/
Oh, man! I'm going to have to buy the White Album again?
Wow. You've been to Redding, CA too?
As for the Dutchmen, it seems their government can be trusted to maintain their flood control system for the medium term. In the long term water seeks its own level. Water does not tire of this endeavor, it does not rest. It does not stop. Ever. Humans can resist natural forces like this for a very long time, but we make errors. Some of us cheat, lie, steal, or neglect our duty. We forget. We die. Sometimes we try and fail by overestimating our abilities. Ultimately one day some concatenation of failures will let the water in. Where did the Dutchmen live before they drove back the sea? If the answer is that there were fewer of them, then you have your answer. The excess should have fled rather than develop an answer that's unsustainable in the long term.
Why is it a troll be be simply honest?
If you take a long enough view, you will see these problems work themselves out. Your goal is not to find the solution. It's to survive it. If you are in an area that's resource poor, move.
The fact that so many otherwise smart people have trouble with this simple answer defies reason.
If you live in a country with a repressive regime, escape. If the drought has been going on for more than five years, it's a climate change. Move. If your city is below sea level, you should not live there. Move. If your climate is inhospitable to human life, leave it for the creatures that like it and move. Is your region so crowded with other people that life there is unsustainable? Get OUT.
This is not so complicated. You are blessed with the power of locomotion. Use it.
Last quarter SCO had just about one quarter's worth of cash and equivalents left. It will be interesting to see if and how they scavenged enough money to keep going.
It's time for Darl the Optimist to tell us about the plans for SCOForum again I guess.
Their http://money.cnn.com/quote/sec/sec.html?symb=SCOX previous 10Q makes for amusing reading:
It reads like Halloween is going to be a critical day for SCOX. Everybody's migrating off of their products that can = no sales revenue. Nobody's sending in their $699 for Linux = no SCOsource revenue. Baystar debacle = no equity financing (Hey, Baystar, why are you still holding so many shares?). On the cost side you've still got "fulfillment of contractual obligations" and overhead even if your Sophists are working for a cut of your pie in the sky.
Report also says they still had 50 on R&D payroll as of 7/31/05. Are there no other jobs available guys?
I think "liquidity will be adversely impacted" is accountantese for "Padlock the doors. Don't bother turning out the lights--the electric company already did."
I haven't heard of this band, I haven't listened to the album even. I bought the full kit also. The price was very reasonable and buying the music this way makes sense because you usually don't get to hear the stuff first anyway.
Now I've downloaded the torrent and I'll find out if it's any good. If the music totally bites I'll still leave the torrent up for a few months. If it doesn't totally bite everybody in my extended family is getting this for the holidays. I hope they rake it in and that we get to find out how well they do. Most especially I hope they rake it in and other artists find out how well they do.
DRM sucks and if supporting this experiment is how we avoid it, I'm all in favor of that. That a good profit for these guys is money that escapes the RIAA is just a pleasant bonus.
You are confused about probability.
The probability mankind will be wiped out by an object from space today is low enough almost no sane person would be concerned about it. The probability it might occur in your lifetime is low enough it causes you no concern.
However it's not just likely the earth will be struck by an object large enough to cause mass extinctions -- in the fullness of time it is a certainty. We don't all need to worry about this but if mankind is to survive to reach the galactic diaspora you wrote of someone must.
The guy who recommended to Comcast that they stick with good, old reliable Windows NT4 for DNS service just joined the unemployment line. They'll be back up in a week or two.
Humans are not designed to be professional athletes either, but some few manage it.
How does your fridge order more milk?
In regard to your notice identified as follows: > Notice ID:7957592 > Notice Date:16 Dec 2004 01:18:22 GMT
I have no idea what you're talking about. Could it be related to my new WiFi Router? Ever since I installed it the internet has been slow. It's possible my neighbor is using it.
Please send instructions on how to find out from my router what's going on.
Your innocent customer
I have a real life. I don't spend $3,000 on hardware and hundreds on games to interact with average people in normal costume. That I get for free. I spend that much on games because I _want_ to escape real life for a while and enjoy a fantasy world where I have the biggest gun and all the women are clones of Jeri Ryan.
That's my target product. Myst you can keep for yourself. Thanks.
The electricity meters never materialized (the vendor went bankrupt before delivery) but they have gigabit internet to everyone who wants it, for about $50 a month. The endeavor, rather than costing money in a public boondoggle (as a previous poster suggested) has turned a good profit, and avoided the horrid cost of a failed public project (the non-extant power meters).
Because they had it in before the recent rulings on this subject, the people in the tiny farming town of Ephrata get far more bandwidth than us here in town, for far less.
There's a similar story in Tacoma, WA, where if you live inside the city limits you can get cable and 10Mbps internet from the municipal power company for a fraction of what I pay just for cable. Just over the city line (and served by the same power company)? Can't help ya.
I like my Comcast cable Internet. It only goes down for a few minutes at a time a few times a month. It's got 3Mbps down and 768K up. I couldn't go back to DSL. The price is steep though, and they won't ever have any competition to speak of to drive their prices down. I sure do envy those folks whose government was looking out for them. But not enough to move to Ephrata (the sticks) or Tacoma (uptown).
We are all just a WAP wizard away from ubiquitous WiFi. Be the wizard!