A year ago, spyware wasn't nearly as bad as it is now. I was at a friend's house trying to show him some stuff from my gallery on his P4 2.0ghz, and it choked by starting Internet Explorer. 3 toolbars over each other, hard drive spinning like hell because all the ram is eaten up by spyware...
Had to run Spybot, ad-aware, spybot, ad-aware over and over for like 2 hours while rebooting to get rid of everything...
At least the latest Norton Antivirus scans some of it and so does Network Associate's antivirus. I wish Trend Micro's would do it too, it probably will soon...
I haven't seen the site since it doesn't load, but most people I know who are fans of Tom's Hardware are gamers who will tell you stuff such as "OMFG LOL!!!111 Did u see that burning athlon on tomshardware !? AHHAR ROFLELFELFLE" and who will never actually READ anything unless it's a chart with big colorful bars for FPS rates on video cards.
I was just trying to buy a 20gig Neuros but NO they can't ship outside of USA...yeah Canada is so far and complicated. Well I guess I just saved some monies.
Building a Knoppix clone with this running would be quite interesting indeed.. Especially if you could replace the web-based interface with a GUI that starts up as soon as you login, then you could select the partition you want to backup to, where you want to save your settings..
My friend uses it a lot on his network, because his girlfriend uses a laptop for school and the HD dying on that thing would basically be the end of the world...or worse. He fetches the stuff from the laptop using the SMB protocol, and it downloads only new files/modified files.
For people who have a Linux server around the house, BackupPC is a pretty good solution that can fetch files to backup through Samba and Rsync ! Nice web based interface, too.
That's pretty cool, I guess we'll see a slew of userfriendly server distros based around that... And dedicated server companies installing them on cheap hardware instead of the non-free alternatives! Gotta admit that it's pretty nice for a company to open-source what they will not use for profit anymore..
I do have my own mail server. I just figure if people can't press reply and send a reply the first time they email me, what they were gonna send me wasn't worth reading anyways.
I've recently setup TMDA (www.tmda.net) to filter my inbox and it's awesome... People who confirm their email addresses get whitelisted, it generates emails for websites (ie: gepeto-keyword-9391319@aliencow.com) that I'll need to communicate with for a few days (confirmation emails etc..).. Ok getting the confirmation prompt the first time you email me might be annoying..but if everyone had this it'd be annoying but much less than spam.
What my ipod-owning friends told me is that the ipod does that indeed.. yet if you just copy an mp3 to it it doesn't show up on it and you can't play it because it's not registered in a database or playlist or something... is that even remotely true or are they just dumb?
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A year ago, spyware wasn't nearly as bad as it is now. I was at a friend's house trying to show him some stuff from my gallery on his P4 2.0ghz, and it choked by starting Internet Explorer. 3 toolbars over each other, hard drive spinning like hell because all the ram is eaten up by spyware...
Had to run Spybot, ad-aware, spybot, ad-aware over and over for like 2 hours while rebooting to get rid of everything...
At least the latest Norton Antivirus scans some of it and so does Network Associate's antivirus. I wish Trend Micro's would do it too, it probably will soon...
When you can find a way to do it remotely !
I haven't seen the site since it doesn't load, but most people I know who are fans of Tom's Hardware are gamers who will tell you stuff such as "OMFG LOL!!!111 Did u see that burning athlon on tomshardware !? AHHAR ROFLELFELFLE" and who will never actually READ anything unless it's a chart with big colorful bars for FPS rates on video cards.
I was just trying to buy a 20gig Neuros but NO they can't ship outside of USA...yeah Canada is so far and complicated. Well I guess I just saved some monies.
So why not having to VPN in from the Wifi network ? What would be the difference from being at home on a crappy Linksys access point ?
Geez you forgot to shutdown the power before removing everything ! n00b !
Errr make that 366.
I predict that Kernel updates will prevent me from having a 365days uptime this year :(
Building a Knoppix clone with this running would be quite interesting indeed.. Especially if you could replace the web-based interface with a GUI that starts up as soon as you login, then you could select the partition you want to backup to, where you want to save your settings..
My friend uses it a lot on his network, because his girlfriend uses a laptop for school and the HD dying on that thing would basically be the end of the world...or worse. He fetches the stuff from the laptop using the SMB protocol, and it downloads only new files/modified files.
For people who have a Linux server around the house,
BackupPC is a pretty good solution that can fetch files to backup through Samba and Rsync ! Nice web based interface, too.
That's pretty cool, I guess we'll see a slew of userfriendly server distros based around that... And dedicated server companies installing them on cheap hardware instead of the non-free alternatives!
Gotta admit that it's pretty nice for a company to open-source what they will not use for profit anymore..
9. Mirror an ISO of said distro to get a +5 post on slashdot.
Yeah nevermind just booting grub by sending commands by hand to disable framebuffer, that would be way too hard.
At least the Xbox can emulate the physical size of a big iron !
Well if you can't be bothered to reply to the first email you send me, maybe what you were going to send me was worthless anyways.
But in any case I blacklist arrogant Kernel geeks like you and Linus anyways, so you wouldn't even get my "pollution" !
I do have my own mail server. I just figure if people can't press reply and send a reply the first time they email me, what they were gonna send me wasn't worth reading anyways.
I've recently setup TMDA (www.tmda.net) to filter my inbox and it's awesome... People who confirm their email addresses get whitelisted, it generates emails for websites (ie: gepeto-keyword-9391319@aliencow.com) that I'll need to communicate with for a few days (confirmation emails etc..).. Ok getting the confirmation prompt the first time you email me might be annoying..but if everyone had this it'd be annoying but much less than spam.
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Talk about biased...
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Maybe a boot mode where everything but Windows update is dropped... so you could use it with any ISP or even broadband..
What my ipod-owning friends told me is that the ipod does that indeed.. yet if you just copy an mp3 to it it doesn't show up on it and you can't play it because it's not registered in a database or playlist or something... is that even remotely true or are they just dumb?
I bet he did that only to see how much load his server could handle ! Hope the university admins don't knock at your "house" in a few minutes!
Just kind of how Apple killed everyone trying to make mp3 software for the Mac too..
Same problem for me.
Wow, that was taken down pretty fast...
Anybody has had the time to snatch it and could make a torrent of it?