We'll teach you that an addiction to No-Doz for our obscenely long crunch times is good. You will receive no medical reimbursement should you fail this assignment, and your grade will fall to an F.
Well, not only that, the SEOs (such as Adminshop, a known blog/link/referral spammer) have no qualms about linkdumping or incestuous link-farm sites, which don't really do anything but improve a PageRank. It's incredibly underhanded, but they do it.
Some of these SEO companies also do browser hijacking and popups, or they run PPC search engines. The entire CoolWebSearch series of hijackers comes to mind at this.
And at the _ELEMENTARY SCHOOL_ where I'm the LAN administrator, the entire staff got an e-mail from the heads of Tech Services about hardware keyloggers and how to watch out for them.
Now, I know at this level, we don't have to worry about it; elementary kids aren't likely to do crap like this. But middle and high-school kids... that's the age when the teachers and students should have dumb terminals and X11/Terminal Server sessions. There's no excuse for this, not on the kid's part or the teacher's part - but then again, most teachers don't know crap about this stuff, so they're hardly to blame.
And to think that when I was in high school, I just got in via teachers leaving their machines logged in and unlocked - and all student passwords were in Excel spreadsheets. Ah, the good old days...
Standard two buttons, plus scrollwheel, plus buttons for scroll up/scroll down, back, forward, _AND_ switch program, for a grand total of 7 buttons and a wheel.
As long as people use IE and browsers that don't natively support ad-blocking (or pop-up blocking, as is the case up to SP2), ads will still be the driving force behind Internet mainstream news. Once ad-blockers really catch on, registration will be required more for spam purposes, then after that, it'll require real registration and payment.
One of the software's niftiest features is its ability to use a video camera to read a product's bar code, which is used to fetch product details from the net.
Remember the CueCat? That which scanned items and barcodes and transmitted them out over the 'Net to marketers? No offense, but I really don't think that open profiles with scanned barcode data for individual people won't be exploited somehow.
Good idea, guys, but unless the profile information is inaccessible to robots, the consumer gets the shaft.
Isn't it possible that this could be used to download and execute files from predetermined locations on the 'Web - I.E. CoolWebSearch hijackers?
Secondly, why in the HELL is anyone using HTML files for help documents? Why not just put it into.hlp files like it used to be? I don't recall any security issues with those.
It doesn't cut into the socializing time; that's what IM and e-mail is for, and unless you're on >=56K, you're not missing any phone calls either.
That, and I'd rather spend five weeks on the Internet and see as many ads in that time as I'd see in five minutes watching television (thanks, Adblock and Firefox).
Take out all the substrains created by script kiddies who took the original code and edited it a bit to make their own strains and knockoffs, and we're left with what, twenty thousand strains?
Gaobot alone has what, ten thousand variants? Symantec's up to something like Worm.Gaobot.BGC to describe the strains now, which is 26^3 or something like that.
The real problem is the whiny little bratty script kiddies who make the damn knockoffs of the viruses and worms (ESPECIALLY the Bagle and NetSky groups), not the people who make the original master strains of the virus. Shoot the kiddies like Jaschen, and the world will be a LOT better off.
And in Korea, only young people will use it. Old people will use standard PCs and graphics cards and complain about "young whippersnappers and their newfangled mini-PCs."
SBC (and in some areas, Time Warner) is now shipping DSL modems with routers _BUILT IN_. That's right. Their modems come with a router. So don't buy one. Use the one in the modem.
You don't need to pay crap for antivirus software. Grisoft AVG's good and free.
Same thing with antispyware - the best stuff is free. Ad-Aware, Spybot, HijackThis, CWShredder, the SpywareInfo.com forums.
That MS will bundle this with the next version of Windows, thus going up against LiveJournal and taking a large percentage of the new bloggers with it.
How about the fact that Kazaa includes spyware like mad? How much you want to bet that there'll be speech-recognition software (a la that in OS 9) that picks up on keywords in calls and uses Kazaa's adware to create popups based on it?
C:\ = Moon HD. System and installed programs. Nothing else.
D:\ = Mercury HD. Random crap that I never really go through anymore - mostly stuff left over from porting and backups.
E:\ = Mars HD. Music. Fifty-someodd gigs of music are on this drive, sorted by series/artist then album.
F:\ = Jupiter HD. Anime stuff. Root-level directories are simple - Fansubs, Music Videos, Doujinshi, et cetera.
G:\ = Venus HD. Installers for programs, their dependent files, and backups of map files and such for games.
H:\ = Uranus HD. A running copy of Basilisk II that's ready to fire up on any machine - just change the path to the ROM in the GUI editor.
I:\ = Neptune HD. Wallpapers. Nothing but wallpapers, again sorted by series or artist.
J:\ = Pluto HD. Old documents, projects, and work, mostly ported over from a dead laptop. Sorted by year and subject.
K:\ = Saturn HD. Current projects and work. Sorted by subject or client.
It's somewhat complex at first, but I'm used to it, and that's all it takes.
And before anyone screams about ten drives in one machine, quit your bitching. 3 SATA PCI controllers (six ports), 2 onboard SATA ports, and IDE make it easy.
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We'll teach you that an addiction to No-Doz for our obscenely long crunch times is good. You will receive no medical reimbursement should you fail this assignment, and your grade will fall to an F.
It assigns a UID when the installer is run.
Each one is something like this:
620ad934fc97bebb65f77bc883211351
That makes me wonder - just what does each one represent?
That Longhorn will ship with the full retail version of Duke Nukem Forever.
Well, not only that, the SEOs (such as Adminshop, a known blog/link/referral spammer) have no qualms about linkdumping or incestuous link-farm sites, which don't really do anything but improve a PageRank. It's incredibly underhanded, but they do it.
Some of these SEO companies also do browser hijacking and popups, or they run PPC search engines. The entire CoolWebSearch series of hijackers comes to mind at this.
And at the _ELEMENTARY SCHOOL_ where I'm the LAN administrator, the entire staff got an e-mail from the heads of Tech Services about hardware keyloggers and how to watch out for them.
Now, I know at this level, we don't have to worry about it; elementary kids aren't likely to do crap like this. But middle and high-school kids... that's the age when the teachers and students should have dumb terminals and X11/Terminal Server sessions. There's no excuse for this, not on the kid's part or the teacher's part - but then again, most teachers don't know crap about this stuff, so they're hardly to blame.
And to think that when I was in high school, I just got in via teachers leaving their machines logged in and unlocked - and all student passwords were in Excel spreadsheets. Ah, the good old days...
Bah! That's a PANSY MOUSE!
Try the Logitech MX510.
Standard two buttons, plus scrollwheel, plus buttons for scroll up/scroll down, back, forward, _AND_ switch program, for a grand total of 7 buttons and a wheel.
Do they have to buy robot insurance on this?
Or are we leading up to Zero-One here?
As long as people use IE and browsers that don't natively support ad-blocking (or pop-up blocking, as is the case up to SP2), ads will still be the driving force behind Internet mainstream news. Once ad-blockers really catch on, registration will be required more for spam purposes, then after that, it'll require real registration and payment.
Remember the CueCat? That which scanned items and barcodes and transmitted them out over the 'Net to marketers? No offense, but I really don't think that open profiles with scanned barcode data for individual people won't be exploited somehow.
Good idea, guys, but unless the profile information is inaccessible to robots, the consumer gets the shaft.
According to a Google search, the default settings for these are as follows:
Username: root
Password: pass
I'll lay odds there are complacent admins out there.
THIS INFORMATION IS FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY. DON'T BE A FUCKHEAD.
Isn't it possible that this could be used to download and execute files from predetermined locations on the 'Web - I.E. CoolWebSearch hijackers?
.hlp files like it used to be? I don't recall any security issues with those.
Secondly, why in the HELL is anyone using HTML files for help documents? Why not just put it into
Your green laser will not work on the blue police.
You are promptly shot for twenty-five damage with the additional penalty of a "pound-me-in-the-ass state prison" takced on.
You are demoted to Red and lose one clone from your six-pack.
It doesn't cut into the socializing time; that's what IM and e-mail is for, and unless you're on >=56K, you're not missing any phone calls either.
That, and I'd rather spend five weeks on the Internet and see as many ads in that time as I'd see in five minutes watching television (thanks, Adblock and Firefox).
It seems that 16 bits and 640K wasn't enough for them after all.
Take out all the substrains created by script kiddies who took the original code and edited it a bit to make their own strains and knockoffs, and we're left with what, twenty thousand strains?
Gaobot alone has what, ten thousand variants? Symantec's up to something like Worm.Gaobot.BGC to describe the strains now, which is 26^3 or something like that.
The real problem is the whiny little bratty script kiddies who make the damn knockoffs of the viruses and worms (ESPECIALLY the Bagle and NetSky groups), not the people who make the original master strains of the virus. Shoot the kiddies like Jaschen, and the world will be a LOT better off.
And in Korea, only young people will use it. Old people will use standard PCs and graphics cards and complain about "young whippersnappers and their newfangled mini-PCs."
I guess you could say this is...
ZIG-nigificant?
Or that we should take off every Zig?
Thank you, thank you, I'm here all week.
Ad-Aware/VX2 Plugin can't get the new VX2 strain. It can't even be removed manually as of yet.
These little bastards are the older brother of CWS, and they've got legitimate backing to do their dirty work.
If you se any HOSTS entries for IEAUTOSEARCH, you're infected - gat Lavasoft's VX2 plugin and hope for the best.
Adware's a big component of this, especially the new VX2/ABetterInternet strain.
It's no real surprise, then, that large corporations and their ad dollars are behind a lot of this.
Okay, let me put this simply.
SBC (and in some areas, Time Warner) is now shipping DSL modems with routers _BUILT IN_. That's right. Their modems come with a router. So don't buy one. Use the one in the modem.
You don't need to pay crap for antivirus software. Grisoft AVG's good and free.
Same thing with antispyware - the best stuff is free. Ad-Aware, Spybot, HijackThis, CWShredder, the SpywareInfo.com forums.
Don't say you have to buy stuff. It's not true.
Been there, done that.
Spyware Vendor Aluria Sells Out to WhenU
Fifty a year for that crap? Dude, that's pathetic.
Hasweb.
It's a dirt-cheap division of Hostdime.
My fifty a year nets me 35GB of bandwidth a month, 2GB disk, and a crapwad of other stuff, including unlimited e-mails, CPanel, and even more.
Register the name with GoDaddy, but get hosting from Hasweb.
That MS will bundle this with the next version of Windows, thus going up against LiveJournal and taking a large percentage of the new bloggers with it.
How about the fact that Kazaa includes spyware like mad? How much you want to bet that there'll be speech-recognition software (a la that in OS 9) that picks up on keywords in calls and uses Kazaa's adware to create popups based on it?
C:\ = Moon HD. System and installed programs. Nothing else.
D:\ = Mercury HD. Random crap that I never really go through anymore - mostly stuff left over from porting and backups.
E:\ = Mars HD. Music. Fifty-someodd gigs of music are on this drive, sorted by series/artist then album.
F:\ = Jupiter HD. Anime stuff. Root-level directories are simple - Fansubs, Music Videos, Doujinshi, et cetera.
G:\ = Venus HD. Installers for programs, their dependent files, and backups of map files and such for games.
H:\ = Uranus HD. A running copy of Basilisk II that's ready to fire up on any machine - just change the path to the ROM in the GUI editor.
I:\ = Neptune HD. Wallpapers. Nothing but wallpapers, again sorted by series or artist.
J:\ = Pluto HD. Old documents, projects, and work, mostly ported over from a dead laptop. Sorted by year and subject.
K:\ = Saturn HD. Current projects and work. Sorted by subject or client.
It's somewhat complex at first, but I'm used to it, and that's all it takes.
And before anyone screams about ten drives in one machine, quit your bitching. 3 SATA PCI controllers (six ports), 2 onboard SATA ports, and IDE make it easy.