Cydoor? Hmm, my grandparents actually asked me to put that one BACK ON! (for eGames Collector's Edition to work) It actually came with the WildTangent Web Driver, which can be some good, but appears to be spyware. Also, I've heard Alexa fucks with your browser. Isn't it the spy data gathered from Alexa that builds the Web Archive?
Flyswat, by any chance? Their site doesn't exist anymore. It's rather tame - shows up in A/RP, clean uninstall, disables MOST tracking, they're upfront about their tracking policy, installs are primarily voluntary downloads of the app itself, no hijacking. eZula TopText is the other app that does this, and it's a LOT more evil. Both cause all links generated by them to turn yellow upon a mouseover.
New.net - they're a bunch of bastards that want to make TLDs that InterNIC hasn't made yet. Of course, their method of accessing New.net domains via *nix is actually tame - it's adding them as a third DNS server (it won't find, for example, site.xxx on either of the two DNS servers your ISP gives you access to, so it goes to the New.net one).
I've seen almost ALL of this on my school's boxes. DAMN IT, I TOLD them that the filesharing apps wouldn't work throught the proxy, and you'd get spyware!
That explains it - one student at my school was experiencing SEVERE problems with porn popups, and I ended up telling him about Alt-F4 and telling the teachers that it's not his fault - it's the fault of the people who download KaZaA onto our shit-boxes (OLD-ass Dells). BTW, I'd have them cleaned with SbS&D, but the apps seem to know how to propagate the network, much like a worm.
$80 for a fscking keylogger. Yeah right. BTW, keyloggers are the tools of skr1p7 k1dd13z. If you're trying to steal passwords, use better forms of espionage (for example, looking over the user's shoulder (and I can tell you, I've been 10WPM faster than the fastest attempt at that could go - they got about half the password), tricking them into letting it slip, looking for post-its on the monitor, etc.) than this, where someone just has to unplug their kb to stop the logging. If you're trying to log someone, these are too small capacity - I'd rather use a logging proxy or maybe a listen-only VNC client that was modded to read keystrokes. It's definitely spyware, but less useful than I'd think.
Google Toolbar doesn't count, because it is a VOLUNTARY move to enable the spying features (default is to disable them, they give you a nice short EULA that tells you they'll get some info from you if you enable PageRank). Gator and the more insiduous MemoryBlaster (or something like that - it's a taskbar icon that shows you percent free RAM, and takes up about 50% of RAM on a 128MB box with XP itself) count. Taking into account that someone could be blindly clicking links, one could VERY easily get the whole GAIN suite in a few seconds. (BTW, there are MUCH nicer alternatives to those - I've heard RoboForm isn't spyware, and can even import your Gator data if you did once use it, Date Manager? double click on the clock! (oh wait, roblimo can't figure that out) PrecisionTime? ArgoSoft Time Synchronizer is what I use - good ol' fashioned freeware)
Read a Win2K SP3 or SP4 EULA. Yep, it lets MS fuck about with your box whenever they want (at least it says it in the part BEFORE you have to start scrolling down).
Hmm, let's try a Word doc in both CutePDF and PDFCreator (the two best free apps, and both based in GhostScript, bar none - I expect the only differences to be in UI, seeing as they ARE both GS based):
CutePDF Install Process: Fail VERY quickly (can't get through WZSE (Error 0 running SETUP.EXE) Hand unzipped (nobody would think of this) into C:\cuteprintertemp. Installer crashed my print spooler.
PDFCreator Install Process: I think it worked right, but I forget...
CutePDF: Ease of use (according to help file is braindead level (click print, save file). However, I uninstalled it ASAP, so no testing.
PDFCreator: HORRIBLE UI, but it works rather nicely. (no test results - I'm not rebooting yet)
Japanese keyboard, japanese drivers, poor support for external CD-ROM drives (only three Sony models (starting at $400) for FireWire, hit and miss for PCMCIA, and NO USB models supported), shorter battery life than the faster Interlink 7310...
I think I'll pass. (Granted, I've heard something about the Celery 600A really being a Pentium M ULV 600MHz, but I'm gonna call BS on that... it's probably a severely underclocked tualie)
What if you need an app that you don't have the time to compile under Linux (it's open source), but you DO have a Windows version, and you have Wine running on Linux? OK, so you can fire up Ultr@VNC Client, and run with it! (my server uses the domain-based authentication - a bit more security)
The 65(c)02 in the Apple II ran at 1MHz (closer to 0.9MHz in the Apple IIe line - they underclocked it for hardware compatibility, as several cards, including the Supercard, didn't work at 1.0MHz on the Apple IIe), except for the Apple IIc+ (4MHz). The Apple/// ran at 2MHz.
Hmm... Corvus must have made MANY HDDs for boxes that couldn't take HDDs - they made a 10MB one for the//c (I want one, a serial-to-ethernet adaptor, and a port of Contiki)
Damn, and I thought the Commell boards had a lot of area for the CPU+heatsink (comes from using a Cel466 all the time)! How much would an Athlon 64 take up?!? You PROBABLY couldn't get something like that. However, you could try to call Transmeta up - they DID license the AMD64 technology, so maybe the Uh-fishy-on could handle it.
On that day, millions of thy cursed shall hang their head in shame and try to figure why they cannot see the article.
Or, they just use slashdot124 pass:slashdot. After all, I've been telling people to use that for a couple months now, and I think an AC mentioned it first.
Actually, it IS possible to spend $2000 on a Mini-ITX box without cramming cash in it (which wouldn't affect the cooling that much - it's a friggin C3, after all!). Get ripped off on the M10000, use 2GB sticks of Crucial (can it even take 2GB sticks?), use a fscking 600W ATX PSU, use a slimline DVD burner, use a 300GB HDD, use a floppy, custom build the case out of stained glass, and include the NEW Endura Pro 104 and 20" LCD flat panel.
However, no one would be STUPID enough to do that - after all, it's a 1GHz CPU!
you can't turn your old piece of junk into a nice PC
He wasn't referring to upgradability of Mini-ITX boards. He was referring to the fact that you can gut (insert old computer equipment here) and throw a MITX board in it, and get a semi-modern PC in an old C64 or Apple//c case (DEAD//c's ONLY!).
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Cydoor? Hmm, my grandparents actually asked me to put that one BACK ON! (for eGames Collector's Edition to work) It actually came with the WildTangent Web Driver, which can be some good, but appears to be spyware. Also, I've heard Alexa fucks with your browser. Isn't it the spy data gathered from Alexa that builds the Web Archive?
Behold the power of Google (if you can because of fucked up spyware):
e w_ Net_Users/Q_20640277.html
http://www.experts-exchange.com/Miscellaneous/N
(if you can read it - ee tends to need an account)
Flyswat, by any chance? Their site doesn't exist anymore. It's rather tame - shows up in A/RP, clean uninstall, disables MOST tracking, they're upfront about their tracking policy, installs are primarily voluntary downloads of the app itself, no hijacking. eZula TopText is the other app that does this, and it's a LOT more evil. Both cause all links generated by them to turn yellow upon a mouseover.
New.net - they're a bunch of bastards that want to make TLDs that InterNIC hasn't made yet. Of course, their method of accessing New.net domains via *nix is actually tame - it's adding them as a third DNS server (it won't find, for example, site.xxx on either of the two DNS servers your ISP gives you access to, so it goes to the New.net one).
I've seen almost ALL of this on my school's boxes. DAMN IT, I TOLD them that the filesharing apps wouldn't work throught the proxy, and you'd get spyware!
That explains it - one student at my school was experiencing SEVERE problems with porn popups, and I ended up telling him about Alt-F4 and telling the teachers that it's not his fault - it's the fault of the people who download KaZaA onto our shit-boxes (OLD-ass Dells). BTW, I'd have them cleaned with SbS&D, but the apps seem to know how to propagate the network, much like a worm.
$80 for a fscking keylogger. Yeah right. BTW, keyloggers are the tools of skr1p7 k1dd13z. If you're trying to steal passwords, use better forms of espionage (for example, looking over the user's shoulder (and I can tell you, I've been 10WPM faster than the fastest attempt at that could go - they got about half the password), tricking them into letting it slip, looking for post-its on the monitor, etc.) than this, where someone just has to unplug their kb to stop the logging. If you're trying to log someone, these are too small capacity - I'd rather use a logging proxy or maybe a listen-only VNC client that was modded to read keystrokes. It's definitely spyware, but less useful than I'd think.
Google Toolbar doesn't count, because it is a VOLUNTARY move to enable the spying features (default is to disable them, they give you a nice short EULA that tells you they'll get some info from you if you enable PageRank). Gator and the more insiduous MemoryBlaster (or something like that - it's a taskbar icon that shows you percent free RAM, and takes up about 50% of RAM on a 128MB box with XP itself) count. Taking into account that someone could be blindly clicking links, one could VERY easily get the whole GAIN suite in a few seconds. (BTW, there are MUCH nicer alternatives to those - I've heard RoboForm isn't spyware, and can even import your Gator data if you did once use it, Date Manager? double click on the clock! (oh wait, roblimo can't figure that out) PrecisionTime? ArgoSoft Time Synchronizer is what I use - good ol' fashioned freeware)
Read a Win2K SP3 or SP4 EULA. Yep, it lets MS fuck about with your box whenever they want (at least it says it in the part BEFORE you have to start scrolling down).
Hmm, let's try a Word doc in both CutePDF and PDFCreator (the two best free apps, and both based in GhostScript, bar none - I expect the only differences to be in UI, seeing as they ARE both GS based):
CutePDF Install Process: Fail VERY quickly (can't get through WZSE (Error 0 running SETUP.EXE)
Hand unzipped (nobody would think of this) into C:\cuteprintertemp.
Installer crashed my print spooler.
PDFCreator Install Process: I think it worked right, but I forget...
CutePDF: Ease of use (according to help file is braindead level (click print, save file).
However, I uninstalled it ASAP, so no testing.
PDFCreator: HORRIBLE UI, but it works rather nicely. (no test results - I'm not rebooting yet)
BTW, PDFCreator is Ghostscript based.
Or you could RTFA:
I found one, here.
BTW, this is the one I use when I'm not using SO7, and I need a PDF.
Japanese keyboard, japanese drivers, poor support for external CD-ROM drives (only three Sony models (starting at $400) for FireWire, hit and miss for PCMCIA, and NO USB models supported), shorter battery life than the faster Interlink 7310...
I think I'll pass. (Granted, I've heard something about the Celery 600A really being a Pentium M ULV 600MHz, but I'm gonna call BS on that... it's probably a severely underclocked tualie)
What if you need an app that you don't have the time to compile under Linux (it's open source), but you DO have a Windows version, and you have Wine running on Linux? OK, so you can fire up Ultr@VNC Client, and run with it! (my server uses the domain-based authentication - a bit more security)
Exchange with web services enabled, Ximian, or Firebird (It is a webpage after all.)
Parent was referring to evolution.
The 65(c)02 in the Apple II ran at 1MHz (closer to 0.9MHz in the Apple IIe line - they underclocked it for hardware compatibility, as several cards, including the Supercard, didn't work at 1.0MHz on the Apple IIe), except for the Apple IIc+ (4MHz). The Apple /// ran at 2MHz.
Hmm... Corvus must have made MANY HDDs for boxes that couldn't take HDDs - they made a 10MB one for the //c (I want one, a serial-to-ethernet adaptor, and a port of Contiki)
It was actually a port for a modem for online lottery services. It didn't come out due to fears of hacking.
When will someone finish porting Contiki to the Apple II and write a LANceGS driver for it?
Plex86, anyone? It's the X86 virtualization version of Bochs (blechh...)
Oh (scroll down) yeah?
Damn, and I thought the Commell boards had a lot of area for the CPU+heatsink (comes from using a Cel466 all the time)! How much would an Athlon 64 take up?!? You PROBABLY couldn't get something like that. However, you could try to call Transmeta up - they DID license the AMD64 technology, so maybe the Uh-fishy-on could handle it.
On that day, millions of thy cursed shall hang their head in shame and try to figure why they cannot see the article.
Or, they just use slashdot124 pass:slashdot. After all, I've been telling people to use that for a couple months now, and I think an AC mentioned it first.
Actually, it IS possible to spend $2000 on a Mini-ITX box without cramming cash in it (which wouldn't affect the cooling that much - it's a friggin C3, after all!). Get ripped off on the M10000, use 2GB sticks of Crucial (can it even take 2GB sticks?), use a fscking 600W ATX PSU, use a slimline DVD burner, use a 300GB HDD, use a floppy, custom build the case out of stained glass, and include the NEW Endura Pro 104 and 20" LCD flat panel.
However, no one would be STUPID enough to do that - after all, it's a 1GHz CPU!
you can't turn your old piece of junk into a nice PC
//c case (DEAD //c's ONLY!).
He wasn't referring to upgradability of Mini-ITX boards. He was referring to the fact that you can gut (insert old computer equipment here) and throw a MITX board in it, and get a semi-modern PC in an old C64 or Apple