What's with all these moronic comments? Has this turned into slashdouchebag.com?
I didn't know that quite of the bit anti-social scumm on slashdot also consists of rabid anti-semites.
Man, you're lucky that you are writing from your mother's basement. You are in great danger that someone will rip your fscking lungs out.
Unbelievable what fucked up douchebags are creeping out of the woodwork if there is some news item about Israel. But it is also a constant reminder that Israel needs to be on guard to be able to defend itself.
For my eyes, black on black is the best combination. But from time to time my eyes could also do with a gentle peach colored pastel tone with the faintest hue of light forest green on a gentle peach colored pastel tone with the faintest hue of light forest green.
Not that this is good for reading, though. But that wasn't the question, right?
It's picture of the Russian teenie pop band t.a.t.u that was popular in Russia a couple of years ago. Since the photos on Art Lebedev's website shows the same keyboard layout with the same bitmaps I assume that it's included in the default keymap.
The nice diagrams show what browsers visit pcworld.com - a site whose visitors usually run Windows pre-installed without much tinkering. I remember other statistics from another IDG website where Firefox was leading. Take these statistics with a grain of salt. They say more about your visitors and not much about the actual market share of a browser.
Nevertheless, more than 30 percent is pretty impressive for Firefox, especially on a site like pcworld.com.
I wonder how they are going to operate this computer without the religious police shutting it down immediately. You see - zero is an Indian invention and therefore "kuffar" and unislamic. So they can only use 1s.
I am glad to hear that less users have the chance to be exposed to the Biased-Brainfucked-Company's inaccurate reporting. I cannot wait for the day that they go offline completely.
The example in the article is not very well chosen. It describes some guy involved with IT as an CEO explaining how many mails had to be deleted from the inboxes by hand.
One can only speculate about their state of mail servers. If the mail server runs spamassassin they shouldn't have gotten that huge amounts of UBE/UCE.
Client-side spam-filtering is never good. But if the company can't afford an admin, then there're mail clients with spam-filters, e.g. thunderbird, mozilla -mail.
False positives are always problem. Due to faulty mail-clients, silly subjects or just improper email header fields.
If the senders can't write a proper email they'll have to call me on the telephone. It's a harsh policybut it works.
From the article: "Ironically, the main character in these wonderful books by Sheila McCullagh was Roger Red-hat. Conspiracy theorists should go wild with this new information."
Not quite, the picture shows a drawing with a white dog going by. Shouldn't it be a yellow dog?
He doesn't like the ads and he would have rejected them. But he couldn't because he was not in the position any more. There are sound reasons for every publisher to discard ads: too cheap, too offending, too late. But if a competitor buys ad-space from you it always means that you are doing alright. Otherwise the competitor wouldn't mind spending money. Ads mean that a competitor takes you serious. And he's funding you without obligations. I see lots of ads in Linux/Unix affine publications with Microsoft advertisments. I don't oppose that. If Microsoft PR thinks they want to spend money to have printed ads, pop-ups, banners or other (strictly seperated) forms of advertisment in a Linux magazine, it's pefectly OK as long as ads and editorial content doesn't get mixed. Or does the submitter suggest that editorial content and advertisements are no longer strictly separated in this case? That would be a grave accusation indeed. And if he wants to raise only the slightest suspicion that is the case then he has to come up with citations, examples, precedences to prove his point.
You are not the common Windows user. You know how to keep Windows XP running without seeing the need to re-install. For lots of others this painstakening procedure is part of their montly routine. Even if there'd be more convenient ways to do/fix things with the CLI, the registry editor or the recovery console. And if even this fails Bart's PE Builder may still save you from rebuilding XP from scratch.
But most users just don't know that these things exist. They tend to rely on a fresh installation, even if it wouldn't be necessary. An example: one of my customers bought a small neat router to connect his computer to DSL. Some sites wouldn't open in his browser. So he kept on re/installing Windows instead of fixing the MTU size. The only systems he knew were the old DOS-based Windows. Back then re-installing seemed to work like a charm for most issues he had.
I can't say that re-installing is always useless, though. If there's any trace of unknown processes that seem to listen on ports that haven't been opened by intention I'd always advice quarantine, re-installation of Windows and all programmes, offline-patching and restoration of data from an unaltered backup that dates before the current system was compromised. With all those Sasser-like worms compromisation happens quite frequently.
The examples you mentioned are user friendly in comparison to diskpart.exe . Fortunately, most Windows users don't use the CLI because they are used to re-install their systems from scratch.
When I can open every single one of my Word and Excel files without a single error then it will be "good enough".
So from your oint of view OOo has to be even better than MS office. Because I frequently get errors when opening large DOCs with Word. (I wouldn't have chosen this format for my documents but the publisher insists on using DOCs.).
But why should one support a crippled proprietary format in the first place? OOo's format is open and well documented. If I was even more naive I'd say that it's Microsoft's job to implement this superior format in their office suite.
Back on topic: I agree that the Linux desktop has to improve to get the slick look&feel Windows-users love so much. And games! If more games were available for Linux many more users would replace their Windows OS. Doom III could help making Linux more popular.
What do you complain about? The suspected author of Sasser is in custody and not in detention right now. He will face a trial after all pieces of evidence are gathered and puzzled together to charge him. Considering his age the "Jugendstrafrecht" (penology for adolescents) will apply. I think he will be sentenced to 2 years in a youth detention center, lot's of social service, probation and a huge financial damage to pay back which he can't. Even if he'll be guest in every talkshow there is.
I you liked the book "Cukoo' Egg'you might also enjoy the movie "23". The movie's plot is based on the true story of a group those hackers from Hannover. Karl Koch is one of the main characters and the story writers did a good job in depicting his fall into drug addiction and paranoia. This movie is fiction so the portrayal of technical details is not always historically correct but it recreates the atmosphere quite well.
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Websites can provide an idea about reasonable prices for hardware you want to buy. But I haven't found an online-store that could beat my local computer stores yet. I get on my bike and pick up the dire needed RAM, CPUs or mainboards when I need them - no waiting, no payment-formalities, no delays with shipping going haywire. And when buying larger quantities (s/bike/car) there's always the art of haggling that can save you a lot. How do I haggle in a webshop? With books it is much different. Its difficult to get a book if there're only a few thousand cpies printed. This is when online-stores are a friend.
You can't really stop spyware with illegalizing it. It comes as a addition to a programm your average Windows-users want to install. So it's their fault if they also install features that they do not want. And what's the difinition of 'spyware' anyway? Is the Windows media player spyware because it transmits your UID to Microsoft? Is Windows XP spyware with all this activation stuff? First, there has to be a clear definition of this term and it's uses. Then there might be some kind of strict and standardized guarantee or approval that the original distributor of a proprietary software product doesn't use additional features of tracking users and uses. Then a company can be held reliable if they infringe with the rules of an standardized "spyware-free"-label. But alas, no law can stop users who have the habit of double-clicking everything clickable, be in their Outlook in-box, their desktop or on some local network share. There's only one way to stop it: education for users that happen to have a computer just by incident but don't understand a thing about it and are happy without having to read manuals or EULAs
In Europe there was a huge problem with camouflaged dialers that establish a connection to some over-priced service-providers charging as much as $35 per call. Only after the media got interested in people who got an devastating phone bill, politicians got aware of this problem and illegalized certain numbers that dialers use. Lots of loopholes are still open, but just the media coverage and the discussion about illegalizing a certain telephony service sensitized the average Windows-user that dialers is something they don't want and double-clicking unknown objects can indeed have a real-life effect.
You are right. Now that you mention it - recently I saw the cricket drama "Lagaan". In this movie the British are always called the "firangi".
The possible ethmology of "Ferengi" keeps getting more interesting.
The majority of games lacks geekieness thus they won't be bestselling in nerdland. Some of my fellow geek freak out about Far Cry but to others (me included) it looks like another FPS with gimmicks set in map of Tropico.
I pay far more attention to projects like Exult and ScummVM that allow you play old classics on your current platform (without the hassle of booting and rebooting).
I just wondered where the original story writers got the word "ferengi" from. In many languages of the east there's the similar sounding word "farangee", the name of leek (lat. Allium ampeloprasum). Coincidence?
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What's with all these moronic comments? Has this turned into slashdouchebag.com? I didn't know that quite of the bit anti-social scumm on slashdot also consists of rabid anti-semites. Man, you're lucky that you are writing from your mother's basement. You are in great danger that someone will rip your fscking lungs out.
Unbelievable what fucked up douchebags are creeping out of the woodwork if there is some news item about Israel. But it is also a constant reminder that Israel needs to be on guard to be able to defend itself.
For my eyes, black on black is the best combination. But from time to time my eyes could also do with a gentle peach colored pastel tone with the faintest hue of light forest green on a gentle peach colored pastel tone with the faintest hue of light forest green. Not that this is good for reading, though. But that wasn't the question, right?
It's picture of the Russian teenie pop band t.a.t.u that was popular in Russia a couple of years ago. Since the photos on Art Lebedev's website shows the same keyboard layout with the same bitmaps I assume that it's included in the default keymap.
The nice diagrams show what browsers visit pcworld.com - a site whose visitors usually run Windows pre-installed without much tinkering. I remember other statistics from another IDG website where Firefox was leading. Take these statistics with a grain of salt. They say more about your visitors and not much about the actual market share of a browser. Nevertheless, more than 30 percent is pretty impressive for Firefox, especially on a site like pcworld.com.
I wonder how they are going to operate this computer without the religious police shutting it down immediately. You see - zero is an Indian invention and therefore "kuffar" and unislamic. So they can only use 1s.
Israel doesn't threaten to eradicate another country. And neither does the USA. This is why Iran's religious radicalness and worse.
I am glad to hear that less users have the chance to be exposed to the Biased-Brainfucked-Company's inaccurate reporting. I cannot wait for the day that they go offline completely.
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The example in the article is not very well chosen. It describes some guy involved with IT as an CEO explaining how many mails had to be deleted from the inboxes by hand. One can only speculate about their state of mail servers. If the mail server runs spamassassin they shouldn't have gotten that huge amounts of UBE/UCE. Client-side spam-filtering is never good. But if the company can't afford an admin, then there're mail clients with spam-filters, e.g. thunderbird, mozilla -mail. False positives are always problem. Due to faulty mail-clients, silly subjects or just improper email header fields. If the senders can't write a proper email they'll have to call me on the telephone. It's a harsh policybut it works.
The ZD editor got it right and used the term 'viruses' and not 'virii'. So learning Latin was good for something.
From the article:
"Ironically, the main character in these wonderful books by Sheila McCullagh was Roger Red-hat. Conspiracy theorists should go wild with this new information."
Not quite, the picture shows a drawing with a white dog going by. Shouldn't it be a yellow dog?
He doesn't like the ads and he would have rejected them. But he couldn't because he was not in the position any more.
There are sound reasons for every publisher to discard ads: too cheap, too offending, too late.
But if a competitor buys ad-space from you it always means that you are doing alright. Otherwise the competitor wouldn't mind spending money. Ads mean that a competitor takes you serious. And he's funding you without obligations.
I see lots of ads in Linux/Unix affine publications with Microsoft advertisments. I don't oppose that. If Microsoft PR thinks they want to spend money to have printed ads, pop-ups, banners or other (strictly seperated) forms of advertisment in a Linux magazine, it's pefectly OK as long as ads and editorial content doesn't get mixed.
Or does the submitter suggest that editorial content and advertisements are no longer strictly separated in this case? That would be a grave accusation indeed. And if he wants to raise only the slightest suspicion that is the case then he has to come up with citations, examples, precedences to prove his point.
*pling* You have advanced one level.
You are not the common Windows user. You know how to keep Windows XP running without seeing the need to re-install. For lots of others this painstakening procedure is part of their montly routine. Even if there'd be more convenient ways to do/fix things with the CLI, the registry editor or the recovery console. And if even this fails Bart's PE Builder may still save you from rebuilding XP from scratch.
But most users just don't know that these things exist. They tend to rely on a fresh installation, even if it wouldn't be necessary. An example: one of my customers bought a small neat router to connect his computer to DSL. Some sites wouldn't open in his browser. So he kept on re/installing Windows instead of fixing the MTU size. The only systems he knew were the old DOS-based Windows. Back then re-installing seemed to work like a charm for most issues he had.
I can't say that re-installing is always useless, though. If there's any trace of unknown processes that seem to listen on ports that haven't been opened by intention I'd always advice quarantine, re-installation of Windows and all programmes, offline-patching and restoration of data from an unaltered backup that dates before the current system was compromised. With all those Sasser-like worms compromisation happens quite frequently.
The examples you mentioned are user friendly in comparison to diskpart.exe . Fortunately, most Windows users don't use the CLI because they are used to re-install their systems from scratch.
When I can open every single one of my Word and Excel files without a single error then it will be "good enough".
So from your oint of view OOo has to be even better than MS office. Because I frequently get errors when opening large DOCs with Word. (I wouldn't have chosen this format for my documents but the publisher insists on using DOCs.).
But why should one support a crippled proprietary format in the first place? OOo's format is open and well documented. If I was even more naive I'd say that it's Microsoft's job to implement this superior format in their office suite.
Back on topic: I agree that the Linux desktop has to improve to get the slick look&feel Windows-users love so much. And games! If more games were available for Linux many more users would replace their Windows OS. Doom III could help making Linux more popular.
What do you complain about? The suspected author of Sasser is in custody and not in detention right now. He will face a trial after all pieces of evidence are gathered and puzzled together to charge him. Considering his age the "Jugendstrafrecht" (penology for adolescents) will apply. I think he will be sentenced to 2 years in a youth detention center, lot's of social service, probation and a huge financial damage to pay back which he can't. Even if he'll be guest in every talkshow there is.
I you liked the book "Cukoo' Egg'you might also enjoy the movie "23". The movie's plot is based on the true story of a group those hackers from Hannover. Karl Koch is one of the main characters and the story writers did a good job in depicting his fall into drug addiction and paranoia. This movie is fiction so the portrayal of technical details is not always historically correct but it recreates the atmosphere quite well.
Websites can provide an idea about reasonable prices for hardware you want to buy. But I haven't found an online-store that could beat my local computer stores yet. I get on my bike and pick up the dire needed RAM, CPUs or mainboards when I need them - no waiting, no payment-formalities, no delays with shipping going haywire. And when buying larger quantities (s/bike/car) there's always the art of haggling that can save you a lot. How do I haggle in a webshop?
With books it is much different. Its difficult to get a book if there're only a few thousand cpies printed. This is when online-stores are a friend.
A decent file manager:
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You can't really stop spyware with illegalizing it. It comes as a addition to a programm your average Windows-users want to install. So it's their fault if they also install features that they do not want. And what's the difinition of 'spyware' anyway? Is the Windows media player spyware because it transmits your UID to Microsoft? Is Windows XP spyware with all this activation stuff? First, there has to be a clear definition of this term and it's uses. Then there might be some kind of strict and standardized guarantee or approval that the original distributor of a proprietary software product doesn't use additional features of tracking users and uses. Then a company can be held reliable if they infringe with the rules of an standardized "spyware-free"-label.
But alas, no law can stop users who have the habit of double-clicking everything clickable, be in their Outlook in-box, their desktop or on some local network share.
There's only one way to stop it: education for users that happen to have a computer just by incident but don't understand a thing about it and are happy without having to read manuals or EULAs
In Europe there was a huge problem with camouflaged dialers that establish a connection to some over-priced service-providers charging as much as $35 per call. Only after the media got interested in people who got an devastating phone bill, politicians got aware of this problem and illegalized certain numbers that dialers use. Lots of loopholes are still open, but just the media coverage and the discussion about illegalizing a certain telephony service sensitized the average Windows-user that dialers is something they don't want and double-clicking unknown objects can indeed have a real-life effect.
You are right. Now that you mention it - recently I saw the cricket drama "Lagaan". In this movie the British are always called the "firangi".
The possible ethmology of "Ferengi" keeps getting more interesting.
The majority of games lacks geekieness thus they won't be bestselling in nerdland. Some of my fellow geek freak out about Far Cry but to others (me included) it looks like another FPS with gimmicks set in map of Tropico.
I pay far more attention to projects like Exult and ScummVM that allow you play old classics on your current platform (without the hassle of booting and rebooting).
I just wondered where the original story writers got the word "ferengi" from. In many languages of the east there's the similar sounding word "farangee", the name of leek (lat. Allium ampeloprasum). Coincidence?