Office is only hardware-intensive due to the bloated features built in (autosave, spellcheck, Clippy). Ditch those, it'll access the hard drive a lot less.
"2-3 hours running Windows(R) XP operating system and Microsoft(R) Office applications"
Really, we'd need more than that. A spare battery or two, perhaps, especially if you plan to do anything hardware-intensive on it (Office, Windows, anything involving Half-Life... sweet, Counter-Strike on a palmtop PC).
That the spammers/DDoSers/phishers/whatnot on FooNet were at least partly responsible for the massive DDoS against SpywareInfo, Merijn, Tomcoyote, and Net-Integration a few days back?
It's still going on. Just try to get to SpywareInfo. The attacking machines are throwing 64 HTTP GET requests a second at the server.
That's true, we'd want some security. The code to UNIX System V, the SCO building (a _great_ paintball arena), Darl's car and home, his firstborn child... you know the drill.
Actually, at the Gamestop down the street from me (Memorial and Dairy Ashford, in Houston), they're selling some NES games (Tetris, Tecmo Bowl, Super Mario Bros.) with their mint packages and everything at the normal price.
If it turns out that they lose the suit but get the license fees from everyone anyways, this could open them up to RICO Act suits (triple damages, court costs included).
At any rate, this will continue to be interesting to watch.
Actually, that GIF shows the amount of data that's on Kazaa at any given moment, not the size of the Internet.
The Internet encompasses infinity (especially in the number of pornographic files). How can we describe it, then? I quote Adams:
"Infinite: Bigger than the biggest thing ever and then some. Much bigger than that infact, really amazingly immense, a totally stunning size, real 'wow, that's big,' time. Infinity is just so big that, by comparison, bigness itself looks really titchy. Gigantic multiplied by colossal multiplied by staggeringly huge is the sort of concept we're trying to get across here."
Interesting. While the whole "DDoS-the-whole-Internet-thanks-to-SiteFinder" is an interesting concept, we can now technically consider them as a group of browser hijackers.
Can we tack them in with CoolWebSearch and their ilk now? Or is CWS slightly better than them?
So this could possibly be another tool for opening ports for spammers. Joy.
Also, Roadrunner will clog your inbox with bounce messages or "sent from a RoadRunner IP" messages. I told my clients about this, and they've instituted a mail-block policy on any and all RR servers until they turn it off.
Why the hell was this modded funny? I'm serious. I got phone spam from Talmadge Heflin back when he ran in 2000, and I expect it to get worse this year.
If you go to SpywareInfo's forums, you can get HijackThis, which lists pretty much everything that ever loads on your system, and the experts there can clean it.
Yes, but in World War II, we had a clearly defined enemy, and we were separated from them by an ocean on either side. This particular style of fighting is far more insidious; the "fifth column" doesn't exactly give warning and have rallies, you know.
Besides, if you're so gung-ho on patriotism, you should remember what one of our Founding Fathers said - "They who give up an essential Liberty for temporary Security, deserve neither Liberty or Security."
Reboot with your XP/2000 CD in your drive. When you reboot, tap the key to let you boot off the CD. Access the Recovery Console. Type "cmd" without the quotes, then hit Enter. Type "format C:/y" and hit Enter. Congratulations, part one of the fix is applied.
For Windows 98/95 users:
Place your boot floppy into the drive and reboot. Type "format C:/y" and hit Enter at the command prompt. Congratulations, part one of the fix is applied.
Part Two:
Go to a informed friend's house and beg them for a Debian/Red Hat/OpenBSD CD. Kiss their boots, and with luck, you'll obtain one. Return to your domicile and install the OS off that CD. Sigh in happiness and laugh at the ignorant end-users who still use Windows.
How much you want to bet someone actually _does_ this?
Because they forced IE to integrate into the shell. Of course, there's IEliminate and similar programs which will shred IE from the system and strip any references to it from various places, and if you install IE6 off the NIS2003 disc, you can edit the install.ini file's ShellIntegration value (set it to 0), and you can use Firebird for everything else.
There's always the fact that those of us who want to use this bug to, say, show "grades" to our "parents" online will keep this unpatched, thus allowing us to give them our "real" grades without the wonders of Photoshop or Fireworks or the GIMP.
- Hurn-de-burn-de-hurn! (Swedish Chef) - Vogon poetry - It was run through the Babelfish too many times - It was written by a beowulf cluster of monkeys
They missed two critical things in Windows if they'd really wanted to do damage - spread to and from network shares and use malformed HTML/Java like the CWS hijacker. If they'd done that, they'd have hit _every_ ACU (average clueless user) who runs Windows.
If you don't read a contract, the terms are still enforceable. The EULA is considered a contract for use of the software. I don't agree with it, but they're there, and they're considered contracts, so deal with them.
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I'd heard this somewhere about logs, but I can't remember where.
"It rolls down stairs in singles and pairs,
Rolls over your neighbor's dog,
It fits on your back and it's great for a snack,
It's log, log, log!"
Office is only hardware-intensive due to the bloated features built in (autosave, spellcheck, Clippy). Ditch those, it'll access the hard drive a lot less.
"2-3 hours running Windows(R) XP operating system and Microsoft(R) Office applications"
Really, we'd need more than that. A spare battery or two, perhaps, especially if you plan to do anything hardware-intensive on it (Office, Windows, anything involving Half-Life... sweet, Counter-Strike on a palmtop PC).
That the spammers/DDoSers/phishers/whatnot on FooNet were at least partly responsible for the massive DDoS against SpywareInfo, Merijn, Tomcoyote, and Net-Integration a few days back?
It's still going on. Just try to get to SpywareInfo. The attacking machines are throwing 64 HTTP GET requests a second at the server.
That's true, we'd want some security. The code to UNIX System V, the SCO building (a _great_ paintball arena), Darl's car and home, his firstborn child... you know the drill.
Actually, at the Gamestop down the street from me (Memorial and Dairy Ashford, in Houston), they're selling some NES games (Tetris, Tecmo Bowl, Super Mario Bros.) with their mint packages and everything at the normal price.
If it turns out that they lose the suit but get the license fees from everyone anyways, this could open them up to RICO Act suits (triple damages, court costs included).
At any rate, this will continue to be interesting to watch.
Do they take Monopoly money?
This could outlaw "drive-by" installs of spyware in Canada.
Actually, that GIF shows the amount of data that's on Kazaa at any given moment, not the size of the Internet.
The Internet encompasses infinity (especially in the number of pornographic files). How can we describe it, then? I quote Adams:
"Infinite: Bigger than the biggest thing ever and then some. Much bigger than that infact, really amazingly immense, a totally stunning size, real 'wow, that's big,' time. Infinity is just so big that, by comparison, bigness itself looks really titchy. Gigantic multiplied by colossal multiplied by staggeringly huge is the sort of concept we're trying to get across here."
Interesting. While the whole "DDoS-the-whole-Internet-thanks-to-SiteFinder" is an interesting concept, we can now technically consider them as a group of browser hijackers.
Can we tack them in with CoolWebSearch and their ilk now? Or is CWS slightly better than them?
So this could possibly be another tool for opening ports for spammers. Joy.
Also, Roadrunner will clog your inbox with bounce messages or "sent from a RoadRunner IP" messages. I told my clients about this, and they've instituted a mail-block policy on any and all RR servers until they turn it off.
Why the hell was this modded funny? I'm serious. I got phone spam from Talmadge Heflin back when he ran in 2000, and I expect it to get worse this year.
Yes, but that doesn't give perspectives on the candidate, and it sure as hell doesn't equal a LEXIS-NEXIS search.
Just wait until they start spamming us.
If you go to SpywareInfo's forums, you can get HijackThis, which lists pretty much everything that ever loads on your system, and the experts there can clean it.
Yes, but in World War II, we had a clearly defined enemy, and we were separated from them by an ocean on either side. This particular style of fighting is far more insidious; the "fifth column" doesn't exactly give warning and have rallies, you know.
Besides, if you're so gung-ho on patriotism, you should remember what one of our Founding Fathers said - "They who give up an essential Liberty for temporary Security, deserve neither Liberty or Security."
And that was Ben Franklin, by the way.
For Windows 2000/XP users:
/y" and hit Enter.
/y" and hit Enter at the command prompt.
Reboot with your XP/2000 CD in your drive. When you reboot, tap the key to let you boot off the CD.
Access the Recovery Console.
Type "cmd" without the quotes, then hit Enter.
Type "format C:
Congratulations, part one of the fix is applied.
For Windows 98/95 users:
Place your boot floppy into the drive and reboot.
Type "format C:
Congratulations, part one of the fix is applied.
Part Two:
Go to a informed friend's house and beg them for a Debian/Red Hat/OpenBSD CD.
Kiss their boots, and with luck, you'll obtain one.
Return to your domicile and install the OS off that CD.
Sigh in happiness and laugh at the ignorant end-users who still use Windows.
How much you want to bet someone actually _does_ this?
Yes, NIS2K3 is Norton Internet Security. It requires IE6 to install, and it includes it on the CD.
And yes, IE does integrate. If you can view an IFRAME inside IE, or open a web site from My Cmputer, I'd consider that pretty damn integrated.
Because they forced IE to integrate into the shell. Of course, there's IEliminate and similar programs which will shred IE from the system and strip any references to it from various places, and if you install IE6 off the NIS2003 disc, you can edit the install.ini file's ShellIntegration value (set it to 0), and you can use Firebird for everything else.
There's always the fact that those of us who want to use this bug to, say, show "grades" to our "parents" online will keep this unpatched, thus allowing us to give them our "real" grades without the wonders of Photoshop or Fireworks or the GIMP.
It reads like...
- Hurn-de-burn-de-hurn! (Swedish Chef)
- Vogon poetry
- It was run through the Babelfish too many times
- It was written by a beowulf cluster of monkeys
And so on.
They missed two critical things in Windows if they'd really wanted to do damage - spread to and from network shares and use malformed HTML/Java like the CWS hijacker. If they'd done that, they'd have hit _every_ ACU (average clueless user) who runs Windows.
Couldn't it be called "Knighthood CE?"
If you don't read a contract, the terms are still enforceable. The EULA is considered a contract for use of the software. I don't agree with it, but they're there, and they're considered contracts, so deal with them.