Counter example: My dad
In his 50's, own business, nice big house, etc.
See www.adeptrocketry.com
Electronics nerd, father of two successful computer nerds.
When I called him yesterday he had just put up a new ham antenna....
I prefer the End All Virus myself:
Virus Alert!
If you receive an e-mail message with "End-All-Virus" in the Subject line, don't open it. If you do: End-All will re-write your hard drive. Not only that, it will scramble any disks that are even close to your computer. Not only does End-All accomplish these amazing diabolical tasks, but listen to what its victims have told us that it routinely executes:
recalibrates your refrigerator's coolness setting so all your ice cream goes melty.
demagnetizes the strips on all your credit cards, screws up the tracking on your television and uses subspace field harmonics to scratch any CDs you try to play.
gives your ex-girlfriend your new phone number.
mixes Kool-aid into your fishtank.
leaves dirty socks on the coffee table when company comes over.
puts a dead kitten in the back pocekt of your good suit pants and hides your car keys when you are late for work.
moves your car randomly around parking lots so you can't find it.
kicks your dog.
Is is insidious and subtle. It is dangerous and terrifying to behold. It is also a rather interesting shade of mauve. Finally, while you are lying there on the floor beside yourself with horror:
End-All will give you Dutch Elm disease.
Will leave the toilet seat up.
And it will leave bacon cooling on the stove while it goes out to chase gradeschoolers with your new snowblower.
Don't say we didn't warn you.
That's a great idea. It would be easy. If bank.com/oldbanner.gif is linked to in a mail, then change the bank.com homepage to show newbanner.gif instead, and change oldbanner.gif into a big orange warning. Then nothing shows it but the phishing spams.
I have a Canon F60 and I am most pleased.
Here's a review.
It's huge, but I print rarely and it has not shown any sign of clogging whatsoever so far. And the ink is cheap and CMYK in four separate cartridges. Has a compact flash reader too.
I was so happy to dispose of my Lexmark POS. Their cartridges are expensive and clog immediately. I will never ever give Lexmark another cent again.
I have an MBNA Ebay Mastercard.
Every month I get 1% back in Ebay money.
It's not cash back, but it's almost as useful.
And everybody takes Mastercard.
On a side note, Discover is the worst about hounding people for late payments. Someone living with me on a temporary basis called Discover from my house. They collected my number from their caller id. Then they called me THREE TIMES A DAY looking for him after he'd moved out, wanting their money. Never mind how many times I told them he don't live here anymore, leave me alone.
Sounds like a good ISP, but it would rarely hit 5Mbps at my house, with two people on different shifts, one of them always having the tv on for background noise, and the other falling asleep in front the tv every night.
I'm not trying to define the word router. I'm just trying to say the cheap Compusa device is sufficient to block some incomming worms during windows install/update. Leave everything on defaults. Router gets public ip from cable modem. Computers get local ips from router. A worm tries to come in port xxx. Port xxx has not been forwarded to any of the computers. Computers don't get infected faster than windows update. This cheap Compusa device, commonly called a router, could reduce some worm infection, yet Bellsouth and Comcast discourage them, which I think is dumb. That was my original point.
Yeah, I forget about the unfortunate people who still have to use dialup... But I mean the standard cheap electronic store definition of router. Like this one for $5 after rebate: http://www.compusa.com/products/product_info.asp?p roduct_code=302193&pfp=BROWSE
If no DMZ host set, it'll get you through windows update just fine. Oh and windows messenger spam ads don't come in either.
All you have to do it plug a computer into a router. That's usually enough to stop incoming worms until everything's patched. But what's interesting is broadband providers seem to be opposed to that. Mention the word "router" to Bellsouth or Comcast and it's "sorry we don't support routers". You'd think they'd want the clueless to plug in through that extra layer of protection.
Maybe try http://www.freecycle.org/ to get rid of some things you can't on ebay? Pure giveaway, no selling or trading allowed. At a glance now on the Atlanta group, I see a couch, a fish tank, some computer junk, etc.
Yes, you were lucky. I tried Me and once, and it bluescreened and degraded until one day it locked up as soon as I clicked "my computer". When 95 and 98 died, I could usually reinstall it on top of itself and get things going again.
Haven't had 2K or XP die just for fun. A spontanious reboot prob with 2K was fixed by a bios update on my cheap mobo.
Gee that's rude of them. With MBNA, an operator just answers the phone if the automation doesn't match the numbers, and they confirm name and address and whatnot to activate.
Yeah, they need to work on it. I'm on Comcast near Atlanta. Half the time the sound will be blipping every few seconds, very annoying when you try to watch something. Very nice when you miss a Sopranos or something, but I would never pay $4 to buy a movie through it. If they would put a nice easy to use on demand directory online, and fix their transmission issues, it would be quite nice.
Perhaps you could set it on an icepack of some sort. I'm picturing one of those hard plastic square blue cooler packs. Maybe that could make it run a little longer and speed up your data extraction process.
Heck I just got a wireless router on sale for $45 with a $35 rebate last week.:) But if I already had both a wired and wireless card in my good WinXP desktop, I wouldn't mind running an extra program on that 24x7 machine to talk to my laptop...
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I'm his daughter and I'm just too lazy/busy.
Counter example: My dad In his 50's, own business, nice big house, etc.
See www.adeptrocketry.com
Electronics nerd, father of two successful computer nerds.
When I called him yesterday he had just put up a new ham antenna....
I prefer the End All Virus myself:
Virus Alert!
If you receive an e-mail message with "End-All-Virus" in the Subject line, don't open it. If you do: End-All will re-write your hard drive. Not only that, it will scramble any disks that are even close to your computer. Not only does End-All accomplish these amazing diabolical tasks, but listen to what its victims have told us that it routinely executes: recalibrates your refrigerator's coolness setting so all your ice cream goes melty. demagnetizes the strips on all your credit cards, screws up the tracking on your television and uses subspace field harmonics to scratch any CDs you try to play. gives your ex-girlfriend your new phone number. mixes Kool-aid into your fishtank. leaves dirty socks on the coffee table when company comes over. puts a dead kitten in the back pocekt of your good suit pants and hides your car keys when you are late for work. moves your car randomly around parking lots so you can't find it. kicks your dog. Is is insidious and subtle. It is dangerous and terrifying to behold. It is also a rather interesting shade of mauve. Finally, while you are lying there on the floor beside yourself with horror: End-All will give you Dutch Elm disease. Will leave the toilet seat up. And it will leave bacon cooling on the stove while it goes out to chase gradeschoolers with your new snowblower. Don't say we didn't warn you.
That's a great idea. It would be easy. If bank.com/oldbanner.gif is linked to in a mail, then change the bank.com homepage to show newbanner.gif instead, and change oldbanner.gif into a big orange warning. Then nothing shows it but the phishing spams.
Means taking something apart/studying it to find out how it works. So you can then modify it, or build your own version.
Technically, is was Brad Pitt who was interviewed... mmmm....Brad Pitt...
I have a Canon F60 and I am most pleased.
Here's a review.
It's huge, but I print rarely and it has not shown any sign of clogging whatsoever so far. And the ink is cheap and CMYK in four separate cartridges. Has a compact flash reader too.
I was so happy to dispose of my Lexmark POS. Their cartridges are expensive and clog immediately. I will never ever give Lexmark another cent again.
And a firewall cannot help you when an employee plugs in a laptop with a virus they caught at home.... happened at my company more than once....
I have an MBNA Ebay Mastercard. Every month I get 1% back in Ebay money. It's not cash back, but it's almost as useful. And everybody takes Mastercard.
On a side note, Discover is the worst about hounding people for late payments. Someone living with me on a temporary basis called Discover from my house. They collected my number from their caller id. Then they called me THREE TIMES A DAY looking for him after he'd moved out, wanting their money. Never mind how many times I told them he don't live here anymore, leave me alone.
Sounds like a good ISP, but it would rarely hit 5Mbps at my house, with two people on different shifts, one of them always having the tv on for background noise, and the other falling asleep in front the tv every night.
I'm not trying to define the word router. I'm just trying to say the cheap Compusa device is sufficient to block some incomming worms during windows install/update. Leave everything on defaults. Router gets public ip from cable modem. Computers get local ips from router. A worm tries to come in port xxx. Port xxx has not been forwarded to any of the computers. Computers don't get infected faster than windows update. This cheap Compusa device, commonly called a router, could reduce some worm infection, yet Bellsouth and Comcast discourage them, which I think is dumb. That was my original point.
Yeah, I forget about the unfortunate people who still have to use dialup... But I mean the standard cheap electronic store definition of router. Like this one for $5 after rebate: http://www.compusa.com/products/product_info.asp?p roduct_code=302193&pfp=BROWSE
If no DMZ host set, it'll get you through windows update just fine. Oh and windows messenger spam ads don't come in either.
All you have to do it plug a computer into a router. That's usually enough to stop incoming worms until everything's patched. But what's interesting is broadband providers seem to be opposed to that. Mention the word "router" to Bellsouth or Comcast and it's "sorry we don't support routers". You'd think they'd want the clueless to plug in through that extra layer of protection.
Aw if he was God he would have removed those nasty moles on his face years ago!
Maybe try http://www.freecycle.org/ to get rid of some things you can't on ebay? Pure giveaway, no selling or trading allowed. At a glance now on the Atlanta group, I see a couch, a fish tank, some computer junk, etc.
Yes, you were lucky. I tried Me and once, and it bluescreened and degraded until one day it locked up as soon as I clicked "my computer". When 95 and 98 died, I could usually reinstall it on top of itself and get things going again. Haven't had 2K or XP die just for fun. A spontanious reboot prob with 2K was fixed by a bios update on my cheap mobo.
Gee that's rude of them. With MBNA, an operator just answers the phone if the automation doesn't match the numbers, and they confirm name and address and whatnot to activate.
If you wanna test, this ebay page has the Scob virus... http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&cate gory=48685&item=5705210428
Yeah, they need to work on it. I'm on Comcast near Atlanta. Half the time the sound will be blipping every few seconds, very annoying when you try to watch something. Very nice when you miss a Sopranos or something, but I would never pay $4 to buy a movie through it. If they would put a nice easy to use on demand directory online, and fix their transmission issues, it would be quite nice.
Perhaps you could set it on an icepack of some sort. I'm picturing one of those hard plastic square blue cooler packs. Maybe that could make it run a little longer and speed up your data extraction process.
Actually a 12oz can of Coke is 140 calories :)
/me applauds the jury.
Heck I just got a wireless router on sale for $45 with a $35 rebate last week. :) But if I already had both a wired and wireless card in my good WinXP desktop, I wouldn't mind running an extra program on that 24x7 machine to talk to my laptop...
http://www.recipesource.com/ethnic/asia/chinese/sw eet-sour-spam1.html
How bout a miniature version? Maybe when I scoop the litter box my cats could power a nightlight? :)