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yep.. and it's still a pain if you don't live in the US and don't use NTSC and have national TV stations that don't put their schedules up on the web in an easy-to-parse-format
What I need is a calendar which will add tasks automaticly.
You probably say that in jest, but what you're actually describing is a collaborative calendar. When people want to book a meeting with me, it should appear on my calender automatically.
Unfortunately, sunbird isn't very integrated with what my employer uses (novell groupwise).. mainly due to groupwise being very proprietary and ignoring standards. (sounds like another company we know)
Irony: As I type this message praising MS software, the delete key has stopped working in this IE window.
Heh.. my left arrow key (and only the left arrow key) decides to stop working i n mozilla just last night.. couldn't get anything to fix it other than closing moz and restarting.
2 days ago, I turned on my computer in the morning as I do every day, and noticed things were noticeably slower at starting up than usual. I started up task manager and was rather shocked to discover a bunch of 4 letter.exe programs (eg, asjw.exe or similar) that I'ld never seen before. I immediately killed them and then spent the next 2 hours figuring out what had happened, how it had happened, and getting things back to normal.
Using my squid logs, I found out that I had opened a webpage in mozilla on what looks likely to have been www.azlyrics.com, and that had started a JAVA application, which popped up a dialog asking yes/no for something. Stupidly, I didn't think much of it at the time because I thought it would just be some background music or something someone had done with java
Somehow, the sun j2re machine thought the java application had permission to open iexplore.exe by name, and had pointed it at a number of webpages designed to exploit bugs/features in IE that allowed a heap of spyware to install itself without any further popups or questions.
My computer is running w2k, fully service packed and updated just last week with the latest from windows update. I use internet explorer solely for accessing windows update and never open it otherwise.
One of the first things I did was disable java in mozilla, and then uninstalled the JRE completely. It took multiple reboots, many manual file and regkey deletions, and multiple spyware scanners to get rid of everything that had clawed its way in.
Adaware found most things, but removed very little.. even though it said it was quarantining everything, none of the.exe files in system32 actually got deleted and I had to delete them manually. There was also a service called ZESOFT that sat in the background and reinstalled stuff as I deleted it.
In the end, I downloaded Microsoft's (giant's) antispyware tool and it found a number of files, other than the.exe, that were created by the spyware apps, and was able to delete all but one of them. I had to delete the last one manually, and it wasn't file locked or anything, so I don't know why it couldn't delete it itself.
I just had a look at spy sweeper, and ran the free scan, and it STILL finds remnamts of the same 5 pieces of sh*t that adaware and MS antispyware both found, although because it's the free scan, it won't tell me what files or regkeys it actually located.
The crap in question is:
Bargain Buddy
InternetOptimizer
IstBar
MoneyTree
NaviSearch
All in all, a very scary experience.. it is certainly very worrying that the Sun JRE apparently allowed this to happen.
It is even more worrying that even with microsoft's new attitude (firewall on by default, and so on) that IE is *STILL* wide open and allows spyware to be installed without any action from the user.
So beware.. even using firefox or mozilla, you can still get infested.
Methinks that's rather too eloquant a post for slashdot. Spelling - check, Grammar - check, on-topic - check, and what's this, poise - check, and all in the same posting ?
I don't want anyone to know I'm into lemur racing. Is my information private?
Yes, your information is private. Google Suggest does not base its suggestions on your personal searches, although it does use information about the relative popularity of common searches to rank its suggestions. Your Google Suggest searches, like all the information you send to Google, are covered under Google's privacy policy.
mine is when some idiot sends an email containing a body of "Please see attachment", and the sole attachment is a word document with 2-3 lines of plain text in it.
Any coward can die for what he believes in. It is easy to die. Its much harder to live and bear the burden of compromising your principles for what you know is a long term good.
You know, I think you just paraphrased Shakespeare
I often wonder how anyone can describe China as a communist society, because the closest to communism the country has ever been is a wish by the government to *create* a communistic society, and they're a long long way from doing that today.
As things stand now, China has quite a capitalist society, where a hell of a lot of people are very poor at the expense of a small number of very rich people who use their connections for their own benefit and gain (sound like any other large countries you know?)
In a truely communistic society, everyone would be driving around Beijing in black Audi's - not just the elite that currently do that.
Control and censorship of news, is quite definitely one of the current government's policies, but it is not the result of communism, socialism, or capitalism.
l. Until computers can hold the whole level in memory at once, we'll have to cope with it.
I had 512mb in my machine when I first played HL, and it was quite smooth at 800x600.. then I increased the resolution to 1024x768, and found it got a bit jerky due to swapping activity on the hard drive. I checked in task manager and found total memory usage was just below 700mb.
So the next day, I went out and got a couple of 512mb chips, and popped those in, and all the slowdowns disappeared.
However, it still doesn't use any more than that amount of memory, so even though there's a total of 1.2GB of RAM in my machine now, HL2 doesn't seem interested in using any of it.
So it doesn't seem to be 'when computers can hold the whole level in memory'.
Telstra doesn't give a rat's arse about 'protecting' people from anything. It is solely concerned with profits and public image, and can not afford to be seen standing idly by, in effect endorsing this because as unfortunate as it is, our society loves to place blame on others for anything that parents have miserably failed to teach their children about.
I would be extremely suprised if the majority of those teenages viewing the.com would be offended or surprised by finding gay porn on the net.
In addition, it's not like the.com doesn't warn you. There's a font size=+4 warning telling everyone that you're entering the site of a "gay porn superstar", and asks you to confirm you want to enter.
How are young people supposed to learn about anything like this if they're desperately shielded from it until their 18th birthday. It's like the UK driving laws.. you're not allowed to drive on the motorway at all until you have your full license, which means you can't possible get any practice at it before being expected to be an expert.
This sort of thing is made significantly easier if there's a continually running transmitter on mars pointed at the entire earth because you can just look at the received signal strength and optimize on that.
Of course, how you get it pointed at the earth is an excercise left for the chicken and egg.
I have often thought about the possibilities of storing data by constantly keeping in transit over the internet... if you want to store something, send it in segments as a ping packet... if you send it far enough away, or over a slow enough link, that's a good few seconds you don't need to store it on your local computer.. now do that to several million locations, and have a fat enough pipe out to the rest of the world, and you could be onto something.
Not sure if you already took this into account, but the latest service pack for XP automatically executes
SetSecurityPriv('Administrator');
...when the object is first created. Microsoft found that some sysadmins are unable to execute any command they liked without first raising their security level, so incorportated that into the default behaviour
I expect that after releasing Lornhorn, Microsoft will successfully patent the concept of having tabbed browsing, and the proceed to sue the crap out of every other browser that has it.
Don't forget that China *is* a poor country, and that the best way to get internet access is to go to an internet 'bar'
I was in just such a place a couple of months ago, in Shanghai. Imagine a dimly lit where you can barely see to the other side because of all the smoking, with a few fans and air con units running 24 hours a day, some people sleeping and drinking beer in corners or at their computers, with 100 other people wearing headphones playing diablo, counterstrike, and so on.
That's pretty much what most internet bars over there are like.
I know I'm replying to my own post, but there was something important I forgot to add to the original.
This is something that many people are unaware of - the NZ Consumer Guarantee Act states that if a product is replaced with a new one, the reasonable period of life clause applies to the new one just as it did to the original product.
In other words, if I buy that DVD player, and it has a one year warranty, dies after 18 months, gets replaced with a new one, which then dies after another 18 months, I'm still entitled to another replacement (or refund), even though 36 months have elapsed since the original purchase.
This is quite different from what most manufacturer's warranty says - where the warranty applies to the original purchase date, and not to the date of replacement.
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yep.. and it's still a pain if you don't live in the US and don't use NTSC and have national TV stations that don't put their schedules up on the web in an easy-to-parse-format
You probably say that in jest, but what you're actually describing is a collaborative calendar. When people want to book a meeting with me, it should appear on my calender automatically.
Unfortunately, sunbird isn't very integrated with what my employer uses (novell groupwise).. mainly due to groupwise being very proprietary and ignoring standards. (sounds like another company we know)
Irony: As I type this message praising MS software, the delete key has stopped working in this IE window. Heh.. my left arrow key (and only the left arrow key) decides to stop working i n mozilla just last night.. couldn't get anything to fix it other than closing moz and restarting.
I'm glad someone appreciates it... I see someone else thoughfully modded me down for my efforts.
Using my squid logs, I found out that I had opened a webpage in mozilla on what looks likely to have been www.azlyrics.com, and that had started a JAVA application, which popped up a dialog asking yes/no for something. Stupidly, I didn't think much of it at the time because I thought it would just be some background music or something someone had done with java
Somehow, the sun j2re machine thought the java application had permission to open iexplore.exe by name, and had pointed it at a number of webpages designed to exploit bugs/features in IE that allowed a heap of spyware to install itself without any further popups or questions.
My computer is running w2k, fully service packed and updated just last week with the latest from windows update. I use internet explorer solely for accessing windows update and never open it otherwise.
One of the first things I did was disable java in mozilla, and then uninstalled the JRE completely. It took multiple reboots, many manual file and regkey deletions, and multiple spyware scanners to get rid of everything that had clawed its way in.
Adaware found most things, but removed very little.. even though it said it was quarantining everything, none of the .exe files in system32 actually got deleted and I had to delete them manually. There was also a service called ZESOFT that sat in the background and reinstalled stuff as I deleted it.
In the end, I downloaded Microsoft's (giant's) antispyware tool and it found a number of files, other than the .exe, that were created by the spyware apps, and was able to delete all but one of them. I had to delete the last one manually, and it wasn't file locked or anything, so I don't know why it couldn't delete it itself.
I just had a look at spy sweeper, and ran the free scan, and it STILL finds remnamts of the same 5 pieces of sh*t that adaware and MS antispyware both found, although because it's the free scan, it won't tell me what files or regkeys it actually located. The crap in question is:
Bargain Buddy
InternetOptimizer
IstBar
MoneyTree
NaviSearch
All in all, a very scary experience.. it is certainly very worrying that the Sun JRE apparently allowed this to happen.
It is even more worrying that even with microsoft's new attitude (firewall on by default, and so on) that IE is *STILL* wide open and allows spyware to be installed without any action from the user.
So beware.. even using firefox or mozilla, you can still get infested.
Working that out with c=pi*r*2, r= (1.22/2) / pi, which gives a radius of 1.9mm / diameter of 3.8mm
So that's the maximum size of your holes.
And as the previous poster mentioned, they're doing a bit of overkill with your microwave door, with holes approximately 1/3rd of that size (1mm).
Methinks that's rather too eloquant a post for slashdot. Spelling - check, Grammar - check, on-topic - check, and what's this, poise - check, and all in the same posting ?
I don't want anyone to know I'm into lemur racing. Is my information private? Yes, your information is private. Google Suggest does not base its suggestions on your personal searches, although it does use information about the relative popularity of common searches to rank its suggestions. Your Google Suggest searches, like all the information you send to Google, are covered under Google's privacy policy.
Would still show as a HTTP/200 in the logs
mine is when some idiot sends an email containing a body of "Please see attachment", and the sole attachment is a word document with 2-3 lines of plain text in it.
Occasionally, probably through sheer statisical probability, someone posts something sensible and thought-out on slashdot.
You know, I think you just paraphrased Shakespeare
As things stand now, China has quite a capitalist society, where a hell of a lot of people are very poor at the expense of a small number of very rich people who use their connections for their own benefit and gain (sound like any other large countries you know?)
In a truely communistic society, everyone would be driving around Beijing in black Audi's - not just the elite that currently do that.
Control and censorship of news, is quite definitely one of the current government's policies, but it is not the result of communism, socialism, or capitalism.
Yup.. works exactly the same way for me... when I'm in that flow, I can do more in a few hours than I could have done in weeks 'out' of the flow.
I had 512mb in my machine when I first played HL, and it was quite smooth at 800x600.. then I increased the resolution to 1024x768, and found it got a bit jerky due to swapping activity on the hard drive. I checked in task manager and found total memory usage was just below 700mb.
So the next day, I went out and got a couple of 512mb chips, and popped those in, and all the slowdowns disappeared.
However, it still doesn't use any more than that amount of memory, so even though there's a total of 1.2GB of RAM in my machine now, HL2 doesn't seem interested in using any of it.
So it doesn't seem to be 'when computers can hold the whole level in memory'.
Telstra doesn't give a rat's arse about 'protecting' people from anything. It is solely concerned with profits and public image, and can not afford to be seen standing idly by, in effect endorsing this because as unfortunate as it is, our society loves to place blame on others for anything that parents have miserably failed to teach their children about.
I would be extremely suprised if the majority of those teenages viewing the .com would be offended or surprised by finding gay porn on the net.
In addition, it's not like the .com doesn't warn you. There's a font size=+4 warning telling everyone that you're entering the site of a "gay porn superstar", and asks you to confirm you want to enter.
How are young people supposed to learn about anything like this if they're desperately shielded from it until their 18th birthday. It's like the UK driving laws.. you're not allowed to drive on the motorway at all until you have your full license, which means you can't possible get any practice at it before being expected to be an expert.
That sounds like the slashdot I've been reading for years.
Yup... was known as IBM Lan Manager back then. the LANMAN bit still appears in SMB packets today.
Of course, how you get it pointed at the earth is an excercise left for the chicken and egg.
I have often thought about the possibilities of storing data by constantly keeping in transit over the internet... if you want to store something, send it in segments as a ping packet... if you send it far enough away, or over a slow enough link, that's a good few seconds you don't need to store it on your local computer.. now do that to several million locations, and have a fat enough pipe out to the rest of the world, and you could be onto something.
You don't play multiplayer PC games, do you ?
I expect that after releasing Lornhorn, Microsoft will successfully patent the concept of having tabbed browsing, and the proceed to sue the crap out of every other browser that has it.
I was in just such a place a couple of months ago, in Shanghai. Imagine a dimly lit where you can barely see to the other side because of all the smoking, with a few fans and air con units running 24 hours a day, some people sleeping and drinking beer in corners or at their computers, with 100 other people wearing headphones playing diablo, counterstrike, and so on.
That's pretty much what most internet bars over there are like.
This is something that many people are unaware of - the NZ Consumer Guarantee Act states that if a product is replaced with a new one, the reasonable period of life clause applies to the new one just as it did to the original product.
In other words, if I buy that DVD player, and it has a one year warranty, dies after 18 months, gets replaced with a new one, which then dies after another 18 months, I'm still entitled to another replacement (or refund), even though 36 months have elapsed since the original purchase.
This is quite different from what most manufacturer's warranty says - where the warranty applies to the original purchase date, and not to the date of replacement.