Could you elaborate a little more on why you think it doesn't make sense? I remember seeing the original trek when I was a little kid and then the movies and the TNG as I got older.
I'm still on medication. I've been on medication since I was boy. The medication treats my anxiety, adhd, ocd and depression. The schizophrenic problem is more of a tendency than a full time illness. It's something that I inheritted from my mother. Example: Smoking weed causes me to become schizophrenic. So I just have to watch myself and the schizophrenic tendencies aren't an issue. But I still think that in some ways, they still affect my perception and thinking. i.e. proprietary perception. I can see things in a way that makes no sense to anyone else.
DARPA invented the Internet. History of the light buib can be found hereKarl Benz of Germany invented the first motor car. Antonio Meucci invented the telephone.
I have some Schizophrenic Writings you can look at. They're were written when I was having schizophrenic episodes back in college. From my own experience, schizophrenia is both bizarre and terrifying. From thinking that I was a knight of Satan to thinking my own doctor was conspiring against me to believing that I was SKYNET wanting humans dead, I've had some off the wall experiences. I've gotten better at catching delusions before they've amounted to much. I just have to make sure that I avoid excessive stress, don't do drugs and get enough sleep. Otherwise, the voices, delusions and hallucinations start.
Theoretically, running as a non-privileged user on an NT-based system would prevent damage to system files or the registry. It would also prevent raw socket access which is only available to the administrator account. But most developers don't take the security into account and most people don't run 2000/XP as non-admin. O&O software is the first software maker I've seen that takes non-admin user accounts into consideration. They actually ask during setup who you want to have access to the program and its settings.
Why did they have to make XPI? I mean, Mozilla was doing so well. Why not just make a plugin that has an installer or a self-extract zip file or something of that nature? Is there an XPI viewer available?
IIS has a lower market share that Apache, yet it's attacked all the time. I think someone's trying to prove a point with the firefox extension malware.
That in of itself makes it more insecure. I mean, it uses Windows' SSL whereas Mozilla has its own SSL. It has Windows remember passwords whereas Mozilla has a password manager. Mozilla just being a stand alone app makes it safer in that regard. And even a recent exploit caused by an issue with file extension spoofing vulnerability was an issue only with IE. Mozilla still showed the file's name in its entirety.
I remember when I had a Gateway Computer several years ago. It was my first PC and I was still learning stuff. Well, one day, my virus definitions came up missing. Then I could access McAffee's update site. I try to reinstall Windows 98 and it gives me an error saying that the disk is compressed. So, I called Gateway Tech support.
The first thing I'm asked is if I've compressed the disk. And I said,"No. It's FAT32." He asks me what was going on and I told him about the drive compression error. He had me rerun Windows Setup and I got the compression error again. He then asked,"Do you have a wife or kids that might be have messed with the settings on your computer." "No," I replied. He then told me to look at the compression tool. I got the error,"The drive cannot be compressed because it's FAT32."
Putting two and two together on my own, I figured that the compression error and the virus dat files dissappearing was related. "Do you think it might be a virus," I asked. "Yeah. It sounds like you might have gotten a virus," he said. He then told me that there are viruses that can cause the laser in my hard drive to damage the disk surface. There was alot I still didn't know about computers at that time. But I knew that there was no laser in my hard drive and that in no way in hell could a virus do something like that. I knew that because I had at some point opened up a crashed hard dive to see what was inside. That and I had an uncle who used to work at NCR that told me how hard drives worked.
Another time, more recently, I was having problems with my emails being blocked. I talked to a lady from tech support at my ISP. She how I had my IP configuration set up. I said that it was using DHCP. She said,"Do you have it set to automatically receive an IP address or manually?" I said, it's automatic with DHCP. She said,"Oh ok. I don't know what that means." Needless to say, she gave me the most recent DNS server IP addresses to use. DHCP was giving me the wrong DNS information. It had me on the wrong domain. I thought it was funny that she was the tech support person and didn't know what DHCP was.
I know they're not a small company, but I know they support multiple OS's to meet customer needs. This Interview with Martin Fink talks about it. It's kind of old, but it's a good read.
From the Interview:
How would you characterize Linux sales, in terms of hardware?
The vast majority is on Intel x86 servers. We're also seeing sales on Itanium, especially for large supercomputing applications. There's an airport whose approach control system is HP Linux on Itanium. Right now, Linux is definitely the leader on Itanium. HP is not all about Linux. We're about multiple operating systems. Our analysis shows that 85 percent of enterprises have multiple operating systems. The idea of saying, "The world is about Linux" is not the real world. The real world is, "You've got to have a strong Linux solution, but you've also got to have Windows and Unix." Our Systems Insight Manager (formerly Nimbus) is a platform that looks across the whole thing.
HP has a close relationship with Microsoft. How does pushing Linux affect that relationship?
Our strategy is a multi-operating system strategy. IBM is pushing Linux at the expense of other things. We're pushing Linux as part of a complete enterprise solution. Does Microsoft want HP to be selling Linux stuff? No. But at the same time, they understand that Linux is in the market, and we have to compete. It's not about competing with Microsoft. HP is not poking a finger in their eye. It's about competing with Dell and IBM.
"Software will be the single most important force in digital entertainment over the next decade."
Doesn't digital entertainment imply the use of software? Hell, TV's, VCR's DVD players have microprocessors that all use some sort of software. The menu that's invoked when you click the menu button has to come from somewhere. Correct me if I'm wrong.
How does it determine eye contact? Someone could appear to be looking at you. But in reality, you could easily be in their line of sight. It doesn't necessarily mean they're looking at you, let alone making eye contact.
In the movie Armageddon, the reason that nobody saw the giant asteroid coming was problems with funding. Could NASA's money problems result in reduced ability to keep an eye on space for large rocks headed toward Earth?
The ACPI power button can come in real handy when faced with a situation like mass pop-ups. As long as you have it set to turn the machine off, one press and it's a clean shutdown. All processes are terminated. It's an act of desperation, but it works.
It's really suprising that no one's put a destructive load on these worms. With the amount of pc's that have been infected, the damage would be catastrophic.
As far as security goes, NT 4.0 is the main culprit. Microsoft should have done some serious code checking on NT 4.0 before basing future OS's on it. As you've noticed, an exploit on NT 4.0 is also present across the spectrum of NT-based OS's. So Microsoft's priority should be to examine the NT 4.0 code that went into 2000, XP and 2003 and find potential problems before they're exploited.
I don't know if there's a way to automatically install the missing updates or not. I know that qchain will let you install multiple hotfixes with one reboot. You should be able to just use the same batch file regardless of what updates are installed. If an update is already installed, qchain won't install the files for that update.
Believe or not, the NT server product key will accept all 1's. I don't know why Microsoft did that, but it seems to contradict anti-piracy tactics. It almost seems intentional. But if you don't believe me, just give a try.
Windows Update actually deletes downloaded updates once they're installed. You can try to retrieve them before they're installed. But it's easier to just download them from the download center. That way you can qchain 'em if you do a reinstall.
Internet Explorer isn't as integrated as everyone wants to believe. Actually, it's just installed without the option to uninstall it. There is some shell integration with the desktop but that's just the GUI. And that can be turned off.
Some programs use IE's browsing engine as part of their GUI (usually shdocvw.dll).
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Could you elaborate a little more on why you think it doesn't make sense? I remember seeing the original trek when I was a little kid and then the movies and the TNG as I got older.
I'm still on medication. I've been on medication since I was boy. The medication treats my anxiety, adhd, ocd and depression. The schizophrenic problem is more of a tendency than a full time illness. It's something that I inheritted from my mother. Example: Smoking weed causes me to become schizophrenic. So I just have to watch myself and the schizophrenic tendencies aren't an issue. But I still think that in some ways, they still affect my perception and thinking. i.e. proprietary perception. I can see things in a way that makes no sense to anyone else.
Okay. But you said that ALL ports were closed. That's what I was asking about. I guess I misunderstood you.
DARPA invented the Internet. History of the light buib can be found here Karl Benz of Germany invented the first motor car. Antonio Meucci invented the telephone.
I have some Schizophrenic Writings you can look at. They're were written when I was having schizophrenic episodes back in college. From my own experience, schizophrenia is both bizarre and terrifying. From thinking that I was a knight of Satan to thinking my own doctor was conspiring against me to believing that I was SKYNET wanting humans dead, I've had some off the wall experiences. I've gotten better at catching delusions before they've amounted to much. I just have to make sure that I avoid excessive stress, don't do drugs and get enough sleep. Otherwise, the voices, delusions and hallucinations start.
Theoretically, running as a non-privileged user on an NT-based system would prevent damage to system files or the registry. It would also prevent raw socket access which is only available to the administrator account. But most developers don't take the security into account and most people don't run 2000/XP as non-admin. O&O software is the first software maker I've seen that takes non-admin user accounts into consideration. They actually ask during setup who you want to have access to the program and its settings.
Why did they have to make XPI? I mean, Mozilla was doing so well. Why not just make a plugin that has an installer or a self-extract zip file or something of that nature? Is there an XPI viewer available?
Are you sure that's the right site? It just looks like a search directory to me.
IIS has a lower market share that Apache, yet it's attacked all the time. I think someone's trying to prove a point with the firefox extension malware.
That in of itself makes it more insecure. I mean, it uses Windows' SSL whereas Mozilla has its own SSL. It has Windows remember passwords whereas Mozilla has a password manager. Mozilla just being a stand alone app makes it safer in that regard. And even a recent exploit caused by an issue with file extension spoofing vulnerability was an issue only with IE. Mozilla still showed the file's name in its entirety.
I remember when I had a Gateway Computer several years ago. It was my first PC and I was still learning stuff. Well, one day, my virus definitions came up missing. Then I could access McAffee's update site. I try to reinstall Windows 98 and it gives me an error saying that the disk is compressed. So, I called Gateway Tech support.
The first thing I'm asked is if I've compressed the disk. And I said,"No. It's FAT32." He asks me what was going on and I told him about the drive compression error. He had me rerun Windows Setup and I got the compression error again. He then asked,"Do you have a wife or kids that might be have messed with the settings on your computer." "No," I replied. He then told me to look at the compression tool. I got the error,"The drive cannot be compressed because it's FAT32."
Putting two and two together on my own, I figured that the compression error and the virus dat files dissappearing was related. "Do you think it might be a virus," I asked. "Yeah. It sounds like you might have gotten a virus," he said. He then told me that there are viruses that can cause the laser in my hard drive to damage the disk surface. There was alot I still didn't know about computers at that time. But I knew that there was no laser in my hard drive and that in no way in hell could a virus do something like that. I knew that because I had at some point opened up a crashed hard dive to see what was inside. That and I had an uncle who used to work at NCR that told me how hard drives worked.
Another time, more recently, I was having problems with my emails being blocked. I talked to a lady from tech support at my ISP. She how I had my IP configuration set up. I said that it was using DHCP. She said,"Do you have it set to automatically receive an IP address or manually?" I said, it's automatic with DHCP. She said,"Oh ok. I don't know what that means." Needless to say, she gave me the most recent DNS server IP addresses to use. DHCP was giving me the wrong DNS information. It had me on the wrong domain. I thought it was funny that she was the tech support person and didn't know what DHCP was.
I know they're not a small company, but I know they support multiple OS's to meet customer needs. This Interview with Martin Fink talks about it. It's kind of old, but it's a good read.
From the Interview:
How would you characterize Linux sales, in terms of hardware?
The vast majority is on Intel x86 servers. We're also seeing sales on Itanium, especially for large supercomputing applications. There's an airport whose approach control system is HP Linux on Itanium. Right now, Linux is definitely the leader on Itanium. HP is not all about Linux. We're about multiple operating systems. Our analysis shows that 85 percent of enterprises have multiple operating systems. The idea of saying, "The world is about Linux" is not the real world. The real world is, "You've got to have a strong Linux solution, but you've also got to have Windows and Unix." Our Systems Insight Manager (formerly Nimbus) is a platform that looks across the whole thing.
HP has a close relationship with Microsoft. How does pushing Linux affect that relationship?
Our strategy is a multi-operating system strategy. IBM is pushing Linux at the expense of other things. We're pushing Linux as part of a complete enterprise solution. Does Microsoft want HP to be selling Linux stuff? No. But at the same time, they understand that Linux is in the market, and we have to compete. It's not about competing with Microsoft. HP is not poking a finger in their eye. It's about competing with Dell and IBM.
"Software will be the single most important force in digital entertainment over the next decade." Doesn't digital entertainment imply the use of software? Hell, TV's, VCR's DVD players have microprocessors that all use some sort of software. The menu that's invoked when you click the menu button has to come from somewhere. Correct me if I'm wrong.
So port 80 and port 53 are closed by default? How would a Linux novice get on the Internet?
If someone is staring at you, the glasses take a picture for them so it lasts longer.
How does it determine eye contact? Someone could appear to be looking at you. But in reality, you could easily be in their line of sight. It doesn't necessarily mean they're looking at you, let alone making eye contact.
In the movie Armageddon, the reason that nobody saw the giant asteroid coming was problems with funding. Could NASA's money problems result in reduced ability to keep an eye on space for large rocks headed toward Earth?
The ACPI power button can come in real handy when faced with a situation like mass pop-ups. As long as you have it set to turn the machine off, one press and it's a clean shutdown. All processes are terminated. It's an act of desperation, but it works.
If you get bad RAM, you're screwed. I have Win2k here and I just use standby. I have suspend to RAM as an option in my BIOS, but I have it disabled.
It's really suprising that no one's put a destructive load on these worms. With the amount of pc's that have been infected, the damage would be catastrophic.
As far as security goes, NT 4.0 is the main culprit. Microsoft should have done some serious code checking on NT 4.0 before basing future OS's on it. As you've noticed, an exploit on NT 4.0 is also present across the spectrum of NT-based OS's. So Microsoft's priority should be to examine the NT 4.0 code that went into 2000, XP and 2003 and find potential problems before they're exploited.
I don't know if there's a way to automatically install the missing updates or not. I know that qchain will let you install multiple hotfixes with one reboot. You should be able to just use the same batch file regardless of what updates are installed. If an update is already installed, qchain won't install the files for that update.
Believe or not, the NT server product key will accept all 1's. I don't know why Microsoft did that, but it seems to contradict anti-piracy tactics. It almost seems intentional. But if you don't believe me, just give a try.
Go to the Microsoft download center. Use the Microsoft Network Security Hotfix Checker Tool
Or better yet, use the Microsoft Security Baseline Analyzer Tool which includes Hfnetchk.exe.
Windows Update actually deletes downloaded updates once they're installed. You can try to retrieve them before they're installed. But it's easier to just download them from the download center. That way you can qchain 'em if you do a reinstall.
Internet Explorer isn't as integrated as everyone wants to believe. Actually, it's just installed without the option to uninstall it. There is some shell integration with the desktop but that's just the GUI. And that can be turned off.
Some programs use IE's browsing engine as part of their GUI (usually shdocvw.dll).
Both 98lite and 2000/XPlite prove that IE can be removed from Windows.
I thought Lt-Commander Data was the only one that had a Neural Net. I guess the 24th century is coming a little early.