These stats aren't worth crap, but it's cool Firefox got 2 million downloads. How many Windows installs were installed in 2 days when Win98 was released?
WHO GOES THERE? Another protection: vanishing e-mail. Called VaporStream, the system lets people send e-mails that cannot be tracked, copied, forwarded, or printed--leaving no trail. Users pay $39.99 a year to subscribe to the service and must log into the site every time they want to send a confidential e-mail.
Wow, I'm sure nobody will ever find a way to print it out or take a screenshot of it.
Stamped email are so ridiculous, what the hell is to stop a virus from sending an email saying OMG SCANNED BY AVG NO VIRUS IN HERE LOLLLLIPOP!|!!111
nothing.
Yeah that's what I thought, so when you stamp your email, you only give false security to the people reading it.
In canada our ATM cards have a preference for French/English on them. Even if you go to an english speaking province with a french card it'll default to french...
It's useful when you want someone's internet IP and they don't know anything about their router. I personally have my own page setup for that, but telling a clueless user "Go to whatismyip.com" is always easier than "Ok, first, let's find your default gateway, then type this IP in your web browser, remember the password, now go into WAN, see if there's an IP address in there not starting with 192.168.x.x"
Yesterday, I was looking for a way to change a serial on Windows 2003 Server, and ended up on some crack sites. One of them launched a Java applet, which launched Internet Explorer, which spawned a bunch of popups, and then bam, I had a stupid toolbar in IE and 2-3 weird processes running. Took a while to clean..
That was browsing with Firefox, with the latest Java 2 and Windows XP Service pack 2 with all the current fixes for Internet Explorer, security settings at HIGH for internet zone...
Yes, that is called "Publishing" an application. You can make it available in the start menu (Even though it is not installed) or in Add/Remove Under Add programs..
The program needs to be an MSI installer though, or you need to make your own MSI package of it.
Here, I do not publish applications, I assign them (Installed at boot), so I make my own UltraVNC, Firefox, Thunderbird MSIs..
Pew File-Sharing Survey Gives a Voice to Artists By TOM ZELLER Jr.
Published: December 6, 2004
The battle over digital copyrights and illegal file sharing is often portrayed as a struggle between Internet scofflaws and greedy corporations. Online music junkies with no sense of the marketplace, the argument goes, want to download, copy and share copyrighted materials without restriction. The recording industry, on the other hand, wants to squeeze dollars - by lawsuit and legislation, if necessary - from its property.
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The issue, of course, is far subtler than this, but one aspect of the caricature is dead on: the artists are nowhere to be found. A survey released yesterday by the Pew Internet and American Life Project, an arm of the Pew Research Center in Washington, aims to change that. The report, "Artists, Musicians and the Internet," combines and compares the opinions of three groups: the general public, those who identify themselves as artists of various stripes (including filmmakers, writers and digital artists) and a somewhat more self-selecting category of musicians.
Most notably, it is the first large-scale snapshot of what the people who actually produce the goods that downloaders seek (and that the industry jealously guards) think about the Internet and file-sharing.
Among the findings: artists are divided but on the whole not deeply concerned about online file-sharing. Only about half thought that sharing unauthorized copies of music and movies online should be illegal, for instance. And makers of file-sharing software like Kazaa and Grokster may be unnerved to learn that nearly two-thirds said such services should be held responsible for illegal file-swapping; only 15 percent held individual users responsible.
The subset of 2,755 musicians, who were recruited for the survey through e-mail notices, announcements on Web sites and flyers distributed at musicians' conferences, had somewhat different views. Thirty-seven percent, for instance, said the file-sharing services and those who use them ought to share the blame for illegal trades. Only 17 percent singled out the online services themselves as the guilty parties.
"This should solve the problem once and for all about whether anyone can say they speak for all artists," said Jenny Toomey, the executive director of the Future of Music Campaign, a nonprofit organization seeking to bring together the various factions in the copyright wars.
Ms. Toomey, whose group helped draft part of the survey, believes that artists are usually underrepresented in the debates about the high-tech evolution of the industry.
"These decisions need to be made with artists at the table," she said, adding, "it's not enough for both sides to reach out and get an artist who supports their position."
Indeed, big-ticket acts like Metallica and Don Henley have famously denounced illegal file sharing. And the Recording Industry Association of America, which has filed thousands of lawsuits against individual file-sharers, often invokes musicians as prime movers in its crusade.
"Breaking into the music business is no picnic," its Web site reads. "Piracy makes it tougher to survive and even tougher to break through."
File-sharers, on the other hand, often point to high-profile performers like Moby and Chuck D who acknowledge that the online swap meet has provided them with valuable exposure.
"I know for a fact that a lot of people first heard my music by downloading it from Napster or Kazaa," Moby wrote in his online journal last year. "And for this reason I'll always be glad that Napster and Kazaa have existed."
Without questioning the convictions of artists who feel strongly one way or another, however, the Pew survey appears to show that the creative set is both mindful of the benefits the Internet promises and ambivalent about the abuses it facilitates.
"The overall picture," said Lee Rainie, the director of the Pew Project, "is that the musician-ar
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These stats aren't worth crap, but it's cool Firefox got 2 million downloads. How many Windows installs were installed in 2 days when Win98 was released?
Making MSIs with WiX is pretty easy. I wish someone distributed a good MSI of Firefox in FRENCH.
WHO GOES THERE? Another protection: vanishing e-mail. Called VaporStream, the system lets people send e-mails that cannot be tracked, copied, forwarded, or printed--leaving no trail. Users pay $39.99 a year to subscribe to the service and must log into the site every time they want to send a confidential e-mail. Wow, I'm sure nobody will ever find a way to print it out or take a screenshot of it.
If you can install tcpdump on that thing, I'm sure you could use that. You'd need somewhere to store the logs though..
I'll go on a limb and say that Sony is a really good company that rarely makes any planning mistakes.
To be the first species to post !
Stamped email are so ridiculous, what the hell is to stop a virus from sending an email saying OMG SCANNED BY AVG NO VIRUS IN HERE LOLLLLIPOP!|!!111 nothing. Yeah that's what I thought, so when you stamp your email, you only give false security to the people reading it.
Like, 75% gas 25% oil like any good rotary !
How would cycling help?
In canada our ATM cards have a preference for French/English on them. Even if you go to an english speaking province with a french card it'll default to french...
It's useful when you want someone's internet IP and they don't know anything about their router. I personally have my own page setup for that, but telling a clueless user "Go to whatismyip.com" is always easier than "Ok, first, let's find your default gateway, then type this IP in your web browser, remember the password, now go into WAN, see if there's an IP address in there not starting with 192.168.x.x"
As long as you're not a "backdoor AnalYzer" ..
We'd like to be Knoppix. That just sounds TOO nerdish. Geez!
User agent switcher or the Opera equivalent, set User Agent to:
Googlebot/1.0 (googlebot@googlebot.com http://googlebot.com/)
Works for a bunch of sites..
Terminal server is better than TightVNC (For servers, at least) - RDP for XP..
To get 1tb I'd get at least 4. Where else would I backup 1Tb for cheap ?
That's the problem with home users now, they have 200gig hard drives but they never think they might lose that 200gig pretty easily..
Hard drives get bigger and bigger, we might reach the 1TB limit one day ! More at 10.
Yesterday, I was looking for a way to change a serial on Windows 2003 Server, and ended up on some crack sites. One of them launched a Java applet, which launched Internet Explorer, which spawned a bunch of popups, and then bam, I had a stupid toolbar in IE and 2-3 weird processes running. Took a while to clean..
That was browsing with Firefox, with the latest Java 2 and Windows XP Service pack 2 with all the current fixes for Internet Explorer, security settings at HIGH for internet zone...
Yes, that is called "Publishing" an application.
You can make it available in the start menu (Even though it is not installed) or in Add/Remove Under Add programs..
The program needs to be an MSI installer though, or you need to make your own MSI package of it.
Here, I do not publish applications, I assign them (Installed at boot), so I make my own UltraVNC, Firefox, Thunderbird MSIs..
Pew File-Sharing Survey Gives a Voice to Artists
By TOM ZELLER Jr.
Published: December 6, 2004
The battle over digital copyrights and illegal file sharing is often portrayed as a struggle between Internet scofflaws and greedy corporations. Online music junkies with no sense of the marketplace, the argument goes, want to download, copy and share copyrighted materials without restriction. The recording industry, on the other hand, wants to squeeze dollars - by lawsuit and legislation, if necessary - from its property.
Advertisement
The issue, of course, is far subtler than this, but one aspect of the caricature is dead on: the artists are nowhere to be found. A survey released yesterday by the Pew Internet and American Life Project, an arm of the Pew Research Center in Washington, aims to change that. The report, "Artists, Musicians and the Internet," combines and compares the opinions of three groups: the general public, those who identify themselves as artists of various stripes (including filmmakers, writers and digital artists) and a somewhat more self-selecting category of musicians.
Most notably, it is the first large-scale snapshot of what the people who actually produce the goods that downloaders seek (and that the industry jealously guards) think about the Internet and file-sharing.
Among the findings: artists are divided but on the whole not deeply concerned about online file-sharing. Only about half thought that sharing unauthorized copies of music and movies online should be illegal, for instance. And makers of file-sharing software like Kazaa and Grokster may be unnerved to learn that nearly two-thirds said such services should be held responsible for illegal file-swapping; only 15 percent held individual users responsible.
The subset of 2,755 musicians, who were recruited for the survey through e-mail notices, announcements on Web sites and flyers distributed at musicians' conferences, had somewhat different views. Thirty-seven percent, for instance, said the file-sharing services and those who use them ought to share the blame for illegal trades. Only 17 percent singled out the online services themselves as the guilty parties.
"This should solve the problem once and for all about whether anyone can say they speak for all artists," said Jenny Toomey, the executive director of the Future of Music Campaign, a nonprofit organization seeking to bring together the various factions in the copyright wars.
Ms. Toomey, whose group helped draft part of the survey, believes that artists are usually underrepresented in the debates about the high-tech evolution of the industry.
"These decisions need to be made with artists at the table," she said, adding, "it's not enough for both sides to reach out and get an artist who supports their position."
Indeed, big-ticket acts like Metallica and Don Henley have famously denounced illegal file sharing. And the Recording Industry Association of America, which has filed thousands of lawsuits against individual file-sharers, often invokes musicians as prime movers in its crusade.
"Breaking into the music business is no picnic," its Web site reads. "Piracy makes it tougher to survive and even tougher to break through."
File-sharers, on the other hand, often point to high-profile performers like Moby and Chuck D who acknowledge that the online swap meet has provided them with valuable exposure.
"I know for a fact that a lot of people first heard my music by downloading it from Napster or Kazaa," Moby wrote in his online journal last year. "And for this reason I'll always be glad that Napster and Kazaa have existed."
Without questioning the convictions of artists who feel strongly one way or another, however, the Pew survey appears to show that the creative set is both mindful of the benefits the Internet promises and ambivalent about the abuses it facilitates.
"The overall picture," said Lee Rainie, the director of the Pew Project, "is that the musician-ar
Wow, a whooping 600$ a year or something!
Wep cracking on modern firmwares takes some time (and/or CPU) - I wouldn't do it on a DS..Running Kismet on it WOULD be nice though.
At 0 posts..
I guess people who can design good UIs can't administrate servers or something.
Yeah, Windows 2 was AWESOME !!
Here it is...tested on few computers (Two Win2ks SP4, One WinXP Sp2, removing previous versions before installing this one is recommended) Send comments to gepeto@aliencow.com ! If too many of you guys download it I'll have to make a Torrent only...