some t0sser called Misiko posted a "DSC-00465.jpeg" file into some binary newsgroups on Monday 18th... it was really a *.jpeg.pif, and would have automatically infected any user browsing those groups using outlook express and image preview set on.
Unfortunately I've since deleted it (It's an offence to knowingly possess viruses in the UK)
perhaps this is how the new one got launched into the wild???
if anyone's interested, the message reference that it was in is [MPG.19ab40b72e8ed720989682@news.easynews.com] but google doesn't archive those groups. This might help those trying to trace the culprit though. If anyone needs more info, I've archived a copy of the warning I sent out in reply to it.
"N" gauge is a model railroad track scale. In American spelling it would be "N" Gage. I think they may confuse some people with this name. I know it's snappy, but...
They have got one... just copy the front page of the FFII...
But that FFII logo isn't snappy enough... we need a simple one like those Aids Ribbons or the Free Speech one that went around some years ago. And have it placed at the front of websites taking part, at the top, right across... not lurking at the bottom of the page several scroll screens down like some I've seen lurking in territory that very few browsers scroll to.
I'm all for this campaign but it really neds a better logo.
fancy exposing everything just to put a CD in the drive... people are going to leave that front door open just cos of the hassle of opening and closing it everytime they want to play a DVD etc...
and that case is going to be a real pain to fit new cards and pull others out of... looks like anything you put in it is going to stay put.
Nah, it couldn't possibly be because the movies stink
Charlie's Angels II was good, provided you left your disbelief out in the parking lot. There were loads of sly references to other films in there. I will watch carefully when it gets DVD release later for all of the references.
Howver, they showed the trailer for Hulk at that same showing... and you could tell the audience was not impressed at all. Loads of muttering, very little of it sounding good. My daughter leant over to me and remarked something on the lines of " Dad, that's rubbish... I don't want to see that"... so I can reasonably assume that most of her peers will be disappointed with it as well. Which is rather amusing as she's probably in their target demographic (14 with plenty of pocket money burning a hole in her pocket). About the only people I could imagine going for The Hulk would be 4 year olds...
Guess what my daughter did afterwards... she txt'd her friends and told them that Charlies Angels II was OK but the Hulk sucked...
Unless he really needs to be able to brag that he's got a rocket scientist on the team, or the position actually needs that level of qualification... then he's going to go for the cheaper option.
Just having a Ph.D doesn't mean you're any good at the job... it has to be relevant to it in order to open up the doors to get the interview. After that, you actually have to be able to "cut the mustard".
ps. I've stopped mentioning my honours degree and don't put the letters after my name in normal correspondence. I only use them in a job application when the job requires them, otherwise I run into the "sorry chum, you're too qualified" response if I'm lucky to get a response.
learn Chinese... soon... you'll need to. If you want to trade with them, they'll start demanding that all documentation, contracts, conversation etc. be in Chinese. They will be the masters.
Either that, or come up with some new drug to hook them all on... viz the "Opium Wars" all over again.
[http://www.hyperhistory.com/online_n2/civil_n2/ hi stscript6_n2/opium.html]
Read up on some history... see what the British did to them to get them to trade on their terms. (The Chinese wanted gold for their goods, they didn't want anything else as they were self sufficient... the British wouldn't have any of that and used military force in the end to make them take Opium)
Last week, they declared that they will apply very strong restrictions on their soybean and grain imports, effectively putting most American and Japanese grain trading companies on a blacklist for most of the main grain originating countries (US for corn, Brazil and Argentina for soybean and other grain products). Needless to say this will have a big impact on the world economy.
you'll just have to find some other market to dump your GM crud onto then won't you...
[http://www.organicconsumers.org/gefood/usfoodai d. cfm] and I don't want to see it being dumped into here (UK) either...
If you want to really confuse an ms-windows user... drag their taskbar up to the top of the window...:)
A fair percentage (like most of them) don't even know you can do little things like that. And if you really really want to be nasty... drag the top edge of the task bar so as to turn it into one that's only a few pixels thick as well...
sounds like the scum who used to hang around AOL pretending to be AOL personel asking users to confirm their details... and would then procede to run up AOL bills by logging in as those same customers.
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I figure if the technology advances enough, we may even be able to pack hundreds of pixels into a single square inch!;)
hmmm. looks like they already have...:)
[http://www.spie.org/web/oer/october/oct98/tv.ht ml ] www.spie.org some nice piccies there showing how it's done...
have you seen how far computing has come in the last 10 years??? I've got a little handheld Palm OS machine here that blows my old 386 into the weeds. I'm expecting similar increases in computing power and scaling to hold true over the next ten years as well... In otherwords, I'm expecting the power of my desktop machine to fit into a Palm format machine in less than two years. Imagine, 20Gig of hard disk space with 512MB and 2 GHz processing in that form factor... just imagine how much desktop machines are going to improve in the near future when Opterons and similar processors get incorporated... No problems then in getting these cognitive machines into the desktops in ten years time.
Sounds just like one of the weapons used in Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle's science fiction book Footfall (1985, ISBN 0-7221-6339-8) against the alien invaders by the crew of the Project Orion type spaceship built to fight the invaders... it used simple nuclear bombs to trigger gamma ray lasers.
One wonders just where this "device" will get it's X-Rays from to do the pumping and if the two authors can claim copyright on the idea.
So you would be quite happy for user choice to be taken out of the equation for you??? If that's what you want, then stick with MS or Mac...
I like the multitude of choice available. If there were no choice then I'd have so much trouble running a Linux GUI on a low spec machine if the Distro of my choice (SuSE) had dumped all the other desktop managers and had gone with one inflexible choice...
I love being able to completely change the character of this machine just by selecting which desktop I want at login... mostly I stay in KDE, but I really enjoy going into Blackbox and XFCe etc. as _I_ want... sheer freedom which I'm certain I wouldn't be enjpoying if you got your way.
Any large office will preconfigure the machines(even Windows) and try to keep general users from fiddling with them and installing spyware , trojans, virii, etc.
[Blatant_troll ="on"]yup... Linux comletely fails the usability test in this regard... it is very hard for Joe user to fiddle with things, install spyware, trojans and viruses when he's using a Linux desktop...:) with ms-windows it's far far too easy... witness the current worm du jour... [Blatant_troll ="off"]
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Unfortunately I've since deleted it (It's an offence to knowingly possess viruses in the UK)
perhaps this is how the new one got launched into the wild???
if anyone's interested, the message reference that it was in is [MPG.19ab40b72e8ed720989682@news.easynews.com] but google doesn't archive those groups. This might help those trying to trace the culprit though. If anyone needs more info, I've archived a copy of the warning I sent out in reply to it.
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"N" gauge is a model railroad track scale. In American spelling it would be "N" Gage. I think they may confuse some people with this name. I know it's snappy, but
But that FFII logo isn't snappy enough... we need a simple one like those Aids Ribbons or the Free Speech one that went around some years ago. And have it placed at the front of websites taking part, at the top, right across... not lurking at the bottom of the page several scroll screens down like some I've seen lurking in territory that very few browsers scroll to.
I'm all for this campaign but it really neds a better logo.
I think we can start a fund going to cover Vinny and Luigis's fee... here's my /. two cent's worth...
and that case is going to be a real pain to fit new cards and pull others out of... looks like anything you put in it is going to stay put.
Anyone else notice that node in Florida go down as well???
I fell asleep whilst watching the original Solaris... I'm _Not_ making the same mistake again...
Charlie's Angels II was good, provided you left your disbelief out in the parking lot. There were loads of sly references to other films in there. I will watch carefully when it gets DVD release later for all of the references.
Howver, they showed the trailer for Hulk at that same showing... and you could tell the audience was not impressed at all. Loads of muttering, very little of it sounding good.
My daughter leant over to me and remarked something on the lines of " Dad, that's rubbish... I don't want to see that"... so I can reasonably assume that most of her peers will be disappointed with it as well. Which is rather amusing as she's probably in their target demographic (14 with plenty of pocket money burning a hole in her pocket). About the only people I could imagine going for The Hulk would be 4 year olds...
Guess what my daughter did afterwards... she txt'd her friends and told them that Charlies Angels II was OK but the Hulk sucked...
Your admins aren't worth the money they're being paid...
they should be pushing the updates out to your machines overnight using SUS [http://www.susserver.com/]
Just having a Ph.D doesn't mean you're any good at the job... it has to be relevant to it in order to open up the doors to get the interview. After that, you actually have to be able to "cut the mustard".
ps. I've stopped mentioning my honours degree and don't put the letters after my name in normal correspondence. I only use them in a job application when the job requires them, otherwise I run into the "sorry chum, you're too qualified" response if I'm lucky to get a response.
that's cos they're still feverishly trying to paste them into the source...
I was already in and reading both the article and pulling down the TinyOS and MICA stuff when the place got slashdotted...
Either that, or come up with some new drug to hook them all on... viz the "Opium Wars" all over again.
/ hi stscript6_n2/opium.html]
[http://www.hyperhistory.com/online_n2/civil_n2
Read up on some history... see what the British did to them to get them to trade on their terms. (The Chinese wanted gold for their goods, they didn't want anything else as they were self sufficient... the British wouldn't have any of that and used military force in the end to make them take Opium)
you'll just have to find some other market to dump your GM crud onto then won't you...
[http://www.organicconsumers.org/gefood/usfooda
and I don't want to see it being dumped into here (UK) either...
A fair percentage (like most of them) don't even know you can do little things like that. And if you really really want to be nasty... drag the top edge of the task bar so as to turn it into one that's only a few pixels thick as well...
That I get the "See How Judy Did It" e-bay add on this page...
Will I get a "How to scam people" guide if I click on the link???
sounds like the scum who used to hang around AOL pretending to be AOL personel asking users to confirm their details... and would then procede to run up AOL bills by logging in as those same customers.
hmmm. looks like they already have...
[http://www.spie.org/web/oer/october/oct98/tv.h
some nice piccies there showing how it's done...
Nothing there to affect anyway... :)
oh wow... that's like a really "accurate" map man!!!... I'll bet there's a very high level of abstraction there just to make it look simple as well.
have you seen how far computing has come in the last 10 years??? I've got a little handheld Palm OS machine here that blows my old 386 into the weeds. I'm expecting similar increases in computing power and scaling to hold true over the next ten years as well... In otherwords, I'm expecting the power of my desktop machine to fit into a Palm format machine in less than two years. Imagine, 20Gig of hard disk space with 512MB and 2 GHz processing in that form factor... just imagine how much desktop machines are going to improve in the near future when Opterons and similar processors get incorporated... No problems then in getting these cognitive machines into the desktops in ten years time.
Sounds just like one of the weapons used in Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle's science fiction book Footfall (1985, ISBN 0-7221-6339-8) against the alien invaders by the crew of the Project Orion type spaceship built to fight the invaders... it used simple nuclear bombs to trigger gamma ray lasers.
One wonders just where this "device" will get it's X-Rays from to do the pumping and if the two authors can claim copyright on the idea.
I like the multitude of choice available. If there were no choice then I'd have so much trouble running a Linux GUI on a low spec machine if the Distro of my choice (SuSE) had dumped all the other desktop managers and had gone with one inflexible choice...
I love being able to completely change the character of this machine just by selecting which desktop I want at login... mostly I stay in KDE, but I really enjoy going into Blackbox and XFCe etc. as _I_ want... sheer freedom which I'm certain I wouldn't be enjpoying if you got your way.
Why do you never see a Polar Bear eating a Penguin???
They can't get the wrappers off.
[Blatant_troll ="on"]yup... Linux comletely fails the usability test in this regard... it is very hard for Joe user to fiddle with things, install spyware, trojans and viruses when he's using a Linux desktop...
[Blatant_troll ="off"]