I just uninstalled and requested a refund of Norton Anti-virus 2005. The ***ed software would not activate itself. I've read about the software coninualy demanding to activate, but mine would never successfully activate.
And as for support.... they wasted several days asking questions that I had answered in my original submission. They kept thinking that there was some firewall or proxy problem, which seems very unlikely given that I could extract the URL requested by the Anti-virus s/w from my squid logs and successfully request that same URL using a browser on the same machine. Plus there were no dropped packets reported in the logs or errors reported in the squid logs.
Now they say that perhaps their own product (BIS ) is blocking the activation. Only problem -- I don't have NIS
Lesson: Symantec has lost the plot with their activation.
First, no court or judge can overturn a verdict of "not guilty". That's the "double indemnity clause". You can't be tried twice for the same crime -- once you're found innocent, that's it.
According to a friend of mine who was studying law, judges can indeed overrule a "not guilty" ruling -- it would be part of the same trial, not an additional trial and hence not additional jeopardy.
It's just that judges rarely (if ever) actually overrule a not guilty verdict.
If the company moves to an OTCBB or pink sheet listing, then some funds may be forced to sell, because the company's stock does not fit the fund's investment profile.
While that does not make the company or its lawsuit go away, it would likely depress the stock price, so insiders would make less money from their options.
Hasn't the Royal Mail got some new trendy name now -- courtesy of Blair and his acolytes?
A package sent my relatives from the UK to CA did not arrive. Within 24 hours, the Royal mail told me they had delivered it to Oakland. 6 months later, the USPS told me they had no clue about it.
Tuesday, I sent a package from Fremont, CA to Menlo Park, CA (must be at least 15 miles) via FedEx. When I checked earlier today, the package was in Memphis, TN.
there are more newsgroups than ever.
This is just one free service. There are still other free services -- just because one company can't compete does not mean the medium is dying.
The rotating turrent is nice as well since you can pan around without having to move the vehicle itself.
If it works. Last October, I bought what looks to be a similar tank (different colors, but otherwise the same) from II Sports.com.
On Christmas day we opened it to find that the turret only rotates through a few degrees. II Sports would not replace it because more than a month had passed since we bought it. One MONTH -- that's the length of their guarantee. I searched the packaging and handbook and their is no mention of a manufacturer's guarantee -- well, there is not even a mention of a guarantee.
So, we tell my son (the recipient of said Christmas gift) to play with it anyway and within a few hours, there is a pellet stuck fast in the barrel -- it will not fire any more.
Now, I have to wonder why there were pellets in the tank when we bought it -- had it been returned previously and shipped out again by an unethical seller?
By rubbing your shoes on the carpet, lifting them up and holding your finger milimeters away from the metal keyboard lock a static discharge would then hit the lock. Monitor would go black and an instant fried motherboard was the result.
I remeber when my employer had one computer that kept locking up (usually after several hours of unsaved editing). A similar technique was used to get it going again.
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Lets see, the first thing she noticed was your unmatched socks. She eventually married you. That really doesn't sound like a convincing argument for guys making sure that their socks are matched
Try telling that to my wife.....
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Do people really spend that much time examining your feet?
Actually, the first thing that my wife noticed about me was that I was wearing unmatched socks.
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However, there is a way to ease the loss: Always buy the same kind of socks in the same color so you at least don't have to deal with "singles".
And your solution for uneven fading of the socks after multiple washes is.......?
I buy multiple socks at the same time. I still end up trying to figure out what is the optimum set of matches (many partial shade matches, without too many gross shade mismatches)
Anybody have a recommendation for a car that's new enough that you can get parts for it, reliable enough that it's not a Yugo, but predates electronic controls such that it will still start after the EMP?
The trick is to buy a classic car. If in California, you should buy a '74 model or earlier (pre-emissions). There are lots of models to choose from. Many of the US-built cars from that era use parts that can be sourced from your neighborhood parts store (maybe even Autozone!) because the same parts were used on much later vehicles.
My (old British) car has at most one semiconductor device on it (there may be a diode in the fuel pump). I'm not worried about EMP! Parts are readily available, but it is not really the sort of car you need for long drives.
That really is a decent idea, but it assumes a couple of things (which don't exist in my work environment).
What's to stop you creating packages in a chrooted environment? You can create any number of different environments (disk space and cpu time permitting) and build binary packages there.
Furthermore, regarding "nearly identical hardware": most vendors don't provide different binary packages for different hardware (I mean differences amongst the x86 family, or differences amongst the sparc family), why should you? Just compile for the lowest common denominator.
If a phisher can modify the hosts file, then the phisher can also:
Install a key-logger -- and eliminate the need to have the victim go to a fake site.
Add their own certificates to the root certificates store, so that the victim can be (re)directed to an SSL phishing site without any certificate errors.
Either way, it seems a little pointless to modify the hosts file alone.
Isn't this whole issue about (or similar to) software patents?
It's quite clear that if a physical product is made abroad and imported, it is subject to local patent laws. In other words, manufacturing abroad does not allow one to avoid patents.
In this cases, the email and other services are being provided locally, but using servers running abroad. In other words, it is analagous to manufacturing abroad.
The real issue is whether such patents should be allowed in the first place.
have to reboot my CM pretty regularly too. It's on a UPS and the only machine connected directly to it is a linux system so I'm pretty sure it is either the fauly of the CM or the cable company, in my case comcast.
Next time your cable modem is down call Comcast. Get them to send a truck out. Explain that the cable modem keeps failing.
I did this and I have not had a single droppped connection since the tech came and re-routed the wires. And, yes, it is Comcast! The problem was that the initial installer had put too tight a curve in one of the wires.
Or Sendmail, or Postfix, or about any mail server...
A DNS lookup failure is considered to be a transient error, and the mail is deferred for re-transmittal on the mailserver
I think this is a configuration option in Postfix. Why do I think this? Because I tested it on my own MTA, running Postfix before posting. Here is an entry from my logs after trying again. You will see that the status is: "bounced":
Jan 13 20:26:38 mail postfix/smtp[10474]: EBC601DE0D8: to=, relay=none, delay=1, status=bounced (Host or domain name not found. Name service error for name=lajfjlajldjaljf.com type=A: Host not found)
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Too bad DNS does have the ability to offer different caches for positive vs. negative pools. The the hit rate for positives wouldn't be affected by negatives.
Well, for positive caching at least the cache time is defined by the data received (the TTL), not by the nameserver (or at least that's the way the RFC is written -- some ISP's run broken nameservers that ignore TTLs)
For negative caching, I think is is the same, there is a TTL for ".com" (and other TLDs) and this TTL defines how long the negative hits should be cached.
No, it will put it in the defered queue and try again later, finally giving up after 5-7 days, and potentially filling a mail queue with 20k-50k deferred bounce messages.
Well, this seems to be implementation dependent. Postfix does not do this (I just checked). Perhaps Exchange does (another poster suggested this), in which case it is merely an implementation problem in SOME MTAs (as I suggested in my original post)
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I just uninstalled and requested a refund of Norton Anti-virus 2005. The ***ed software would not activate itself. I've read about the software coninualy demanding to activate, but mine would never successfully activate. And as for support.... they wasted several days asking questions that I had answered in my original submission. They kept thinking that there was some firewall or proxy problem, which seems very unlikely given that I could extract the URL requested by the Anti-virus s/w from my squid logs and successfully request that same URL using a browser on the same machine. Plus there were no dropped packets reported in the logs or errors reported in the squid logs. Now they say that perhaps their own product (BIS ) is blocking the activation. Only problem -- I don't have NIS Lesson: Symantec has lost the plot with their activation.
According to a friend of mine who was studying law, judges can indeed overrule a "not guilty" ruling -- it would be part of the same trial, not an additional trial and hence not additional jeopardy.
It's just that judges rarely (if ever) actually overrule a not guilty verdict.
If the company moves to an OTCBB or pink sheet listing, then some funds may be forced to sell, because the company's stock does not fit the fund's investment profile.
While that does not make the company or its lawsuit go away, it would likely depress the stock price, so insiders would make less money from their options.
Hasn't the Royal Mail got some new trendy name now -- courtesy of Blair and his acolytes?
A package sent my relatives from the UK to CA did not arrive. Within 24 hours, the Royal mail told me they had delivered it to Oakland. 6 months later, the USPS told me they had no clue about it.
Tuesday, I sent a package from Fremont, CA to Menlo Park, CA (must be at least 15 miles) via FedEx. When I checked earlier today, the package was in Memphis, TN.
there are more newsgroups than ever. This is just one free service. There are still other free services -- just because one company can't compete does not mean the medium is dying.
That's because MCI was effectively taken over by Worldcom. Ebbers was the CEO of Worldcom before the "merger".
If it works. Last October, I bought what looks to be a similar tank (different colors, but otherwise the same) from II Sports.com.
On Christmas day we opened it to find that the turret only rotates through a few degrees. II Sports would not replace it because more than a month had passed since we bought it. One MONTH -- that's the length of their guarantee. I searched the packaging and handbook and their is no mention of a manufacturer's guarantee -- well, there is not even a mention of a guarantee.
So, we tell my son (the recipient of said Christmas gift) to play with it anyway and within a few hours, there is a pellet stuck fast in the barrel -- it will not fire any more.
Now, I have to wonder why there were pellets in the tank when we bought it -- had it been returned previously and shipped out again by an unethical seller?
Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia.... oh, wait!
I remeber when my employer had one computer that kept locking up (usually after several hours of unsaved editing). A similar technique was used to get it going again.
Try telling that to my wife.....
Actually, the first thing that my wife noticed about me was that I was wearing unmatched socks.
And your solution for uneven fading of the socks after multiple washes is.......?
I buy multiple socks at the same time. I still end up trying to figure out what is the optimum set of matches (many partial shade matches, without too many gross shade mismatches)
Is that Elderly are a helluva a lot more dangerous than drunk drivers and should really be taken off the road.
I think that most people would agree that:
In order to use the roads, we have to accept a certain amount of risk.
There are no viable alternatives to cars in much of the USA
Aging is inevitable while alcohol, drug and cellphone usage are not.
Accepting a level of risk should allow for less than perfect but competant drivers (eg. old people) to make necessary use of the roads.
So, in summary, old people with reasonable capability to drive should be allowed to continue driving. Remember, you too will be old one day.
The trick is to buy a classic car. If in California, you should buy a '74 model or earlier (pre-emissions). There are lots of models to choose from. Many of the US-built cars from that era use parts that can be sourced from your neighborhood parts store (maybe even Autozone!) because the same parts were used on much later vehicles.
My (old British) car has at most one semiconductor device on it (there may be a diode in the fuel pump). I'm not worried about EMP! Parts are readily available, but it is not really the sort of car you need for long drives.
Furthermore, regarding "nearly identical hardware": most vendors don't provide different binary packages for different hardware (I mean differences amongst the x86 family, or differences amongst the sparc family), why should you? Just compile for the lowest common denominator.
Install a key-logger -- and eliminate the need to have the victim go to a fake site.
Add their own certificates to the root certificates store, so that the victim can be (re)directed to an SSL phishing site without any certificate errors.
Either way, it seems a little pointless to modify the hosts file alone.
Isn't this whole issue about (or similar to) software patents?
It's quite clear that if a physical product is made abroad and imported, it is subject to local patent laws. In other words, manufacturing abroad does not allow one to avoid patents.
In this cases, the email and other services are being provided locally, but using servers running abroad. In other words, it is analagous to manufacturing abroad.
The real issue is whether such patents should be allowed in the first place.
I guess anything that Sun touches has to have messed up version numbers -- just look at SunOS vs. Solaris version numbers.
Not according to the Gnome website.
Next time your cable modem is down call Comcast. Get them to send a truck out. Explain that the cable modem keeps failing.
I did this and I have not had a single droppped connection since the tech came and re-routed the wires. And, yes, it is Comcast! The problem was that the initial installer had put too tight a curve in one of the wires.
Did the name really have no connection to Douglas Adams' creation, the Googleplex Star Thinker in the Seventh Galaxy of Light and Ingenuity ?
A DNS lookup failure is considered to be a transient error, and the mail is deferred for re-transmittal on the mailserver
I think this is a configuration option in Postfix. Why do I think this? Because I tested it on my own MTA, running Postfix before posting. Here is an entry from my logs after trying again. You will see that the status is: "bounced":
Jan 13 20:26:38 mail postfix/smtp[10474]: EBC601DE0D8: to=, relay=none, delay=1, status=bounced (Host or domain name not found. Name service error for name=lajfjlajldjaljf.com type=A: Host not found)
Well, for positive caching at least the cache time is defined by the data received (the TTL), not by the nameserver (or at least that's the way the RFC is written -- some ISP's run broken nameservers that ignore TTLs)
For negative caching, I think is is the same, there is a TTL for ".com" (and other TLDs) and this TTL defines how long the negative hits should be cached.
Well, this seems to be implementation dependent. Postfix does not do this (I just checked). Perhaps Exchange does (another poster suggested this), in which case it is merely an implementation problem in SOME MTAs (as I suggested in my original post)
How about "sitefinder" -- the wildcard in the .com domain?