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  1. Re:Nope on The Death of BCC · · Score: 1

    I bet he top posts. Filthy savages. Admit it made you grin inside...all of those articles written by "an idiot talking about something he doesn't understand" are good for entertainment.

  2. Mod up Chigbait on Science Channel Buys Rights To Firefly · · Score: 1

    I got the boxed set of S:AAB after giving in to a reminiscent moment. First impression: oh my god the production quality is shocking! Acting was a bit weak and the script was wobbly, but all three did improve and made it a worthwhile addition to my shelf. In fact I may watch some right now :-) I managed to miss the last episode THREE times! (Part of the reason I gave in to the set)

  3. COBOL on Do Tools Ever 'Die?' · · Score: 1

    COBOL since it's now post-Y2K...right? (Please be kind, and lie to me, if not)

  4. Re:Hm. How about tempuri.org on Example.com Has Changed · · Score: 2

    I would trust IANA to ensure the continued availability of the RFC 2606 to the extent that I would not worry about it being pulled. I'd say that since any user that sees $tempuri is testing and/or using the documentation at the time, then they don't need any extra information from $tempuri - it's not there to document - rather as a placeholder for the tester. However, I do agree your points both have merit :-)

  5. Re:Hm. How about tempuri.org on Example.com Has Changed · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Alternatively you could use http://example.com/ instead of making up your own stuff which serves no purpose whatsoever.

  6. Privoxy helps out here on Google Adds To Mozilla's Push For 'Do Not Track' · · Score: 1

    I seem to be on a bit of a Privoxy obsession of late. It comes and goes like a biorhythm. Privoxy goes a long way to help prevent tracking...like tracking by Google, youtube, blogspot, ytimg...oh wait, they're all one and the same.

  7. Re:Great idea but not likely to happen on Mozilla Proposes 'Do Not Track' HTTP Header · · Score: 3, Informative

    You haven't seen what happens when you visit a web site - say with a youtube video, a flash advert, four or five social networking widgets or logos, analytics, plain old and flash cookies, even geolocation.

    It's breathtaking and disturbing. Give Privoxy a try and see just who's watching :-)

  8. Re:Maybe we have our answer? on PayPal Withholding Indie Game Dev's €600,000 Account · · Score: 1

    "We can categorically state we have not released man-eating badgers into the area."

  9. Re:Wrong on US Students Struggle With Understanding of the 'Equal' Sign · · Score: 1

    Maybe your TRS-80 should have tokenized keywords to conserve memory.

    In my day file editors converted all characters into a series of smiley faces to conserve precious memory, depending on the file type.

    BBC BASIC made me smiley face smiley face undecided face unhappy face smiley face sticking-out-tongue smiley face.

  10. Re:At least they are trying... on UK ISP Spots a File-Sharing Loophole, Implements It · · Score: 1

    If you think the review is good, you should see their Continuous Quality Monitoring in action. That and their staff's BT-bashing boots. I trust no other ISP with my customers. Come join us on IRC! irc://irc.z.je/A&A

  11. Crap articles aren't a new problem either on How To Evade URL Filters With (Not-So) Fancy Math · · Score: 1
    Nor is it out of general use - I see phishes using them often. Privoxy is my friend. I've been blocking these since about 2007:

    .0x*./
    .[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]/
    .[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]/
    (Must try the new extended host name pattern matching)

  12. Re:What is the network/multiplayer support like? on Red Alert 1 Released As Freeware · · Score: 1

    You just need to drop a dll into the program files: http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=red%20alert%202%20wsock32.dll&hl=en&meta=

  13. Old news on "Crimeserver" Full of Personal/Business Data Found · · Score: 1

    Gee what gripping news of cutting-edge malware research; I found one of these, of similar size, two years ago. The FTP credentials were in plain text in a config file dropped by the malware. It was childs play getting in and getting enough info for authorities to do something about it. Shortly after that it disappeared. It was created by stupid people who were playing with things they didn't really understand, although I'm sure they understood the $$$. I remember thinking at the time "this would be cool if it wasn't so boringly easy". How wrong I was! Should have cranked up the PR machine and posted it to slashdot!

  14. Never fear on Microsoft To Try Works As Adware · · Score: 1

    The beast shall slay itself.

  15. abuse.net on How Well Do Businesses Respond to Phishing Reports? · · Score: 1

    C:\Documents and Settings\aD\Desktop>whois -h whois.abuse.net paypal.com

    accessviolation@paypal.com (for paypal.com)
    postmaster@paypal.com (for paypal.com)
    spoof@paypal.com (for paypal.com)

    Maybe they get too many phishing spams to abuse@ :-)

  16. Re:Security on Bank E-Communications Aid During London Bombings · · Score: 3, Funny

    What...you've not seen the hidden servers.ini entry in mIRC for irc.gov.uk?

    It's great fun. You should see the op wars in #commons.

    MikeyHoward: "L" is for Labour. "L" is for Lice.
    * MikeyHoward makes TonyB -o
    TonyB: Get over it, Tory boys!
    * ChanServ makes TonyB +o
    -ChanServ- TonyB used Op in #commons
    * BettyBoothroid (services@irc.gov.uk) has joined #commons
    * BettyBoothroid sets mode +b *!*@*
    * BettyBoothroid kicks MikeyHoward from #commons (MKICK from QueenLiz)
    * BettyBoothroid kicks TonyB from #commons (MKICK from QueenLiz)

    sorry. I'll get my hat.

  17. Juice S2 on Best Leatherman-Style Multitool? · · Score: 1

    I've had a Juice S2 for years now and it's still in brill condition and is used often.

    The main blade does not lock and is 6cm long. All of the tools in it are very well manufactured and still open, close and "click" into place perfectly as if it were new.

    The four screwdrivers that come with it are almost always the right size and the pliers/wirecutters do a great job.

    Even the scissors work!

    HTH

  18. [OT] Re:DMCA Violations on Tecmo Sues Game Hackers Under DMCA · · Score: 1

    Surely you mean Up, Down, Left Right, A, B, C, Start and listen for the "ring" sound?

  19. Re:Memory Footprint on Mozilla Thunderbird Reaches 1.0 · · Score: 1

    It does take a bit longer to open than some email clients, first time round. Also it has a fair size memory footprint, mine is currently 38MB physical RAM 30MB page file (TB 0.9 Windows 2000)

    The mailbox files get horribly fragmented and need "compact"ing if you move/delete a large amount of email to reclaim the space.

    Also ensure TB's program files are defragged.

    HTH

  20. TB HTTP links on Mozilla Thunderbird Reaches 1.0 · · Score: 1

    Try this out, let me know if it doesn't work.
    Can't help ATM for Firefox mailto: links. Tried searching the MozillaZine forums?

    Thunderbird not dispatching URLs to Firefox correctly:

    Explorer options, file types, (N/A) HyperText Transfer Protocol, Advanced, Edit, untick "Use DDE"

  21. Re:Sun needs to update their site! on Cross-Platform Java Sandbox Exploit · · Score: 1
    Well after installing _06, when I click the "Update" button in the config under Windows 2000, it says "Your system is currently offline from the network. Please go online and try again."

    Time to give 1.5 a go I think!

  22. WSH and Easy CD Creator on Backups to CD-R? · · Score: 1

    I have a task-scheduled Windows Scripting Host script that runs NTBackup, zips it, defrags it, tests the zip, then exports the registry and does the same to that. It does this early in the morning just after the PC turns itself on, while I'm not using it.

    It finally takes an sha1 of the job lot, and I then fire up Easy CD Creator and burn the lot to CD, finally verifying the sha1 sum.

    I've been thinking about getting a few USB 2 external hard drive enclosures and using them.
    But for the moment I have plenty of space left on a 700MB CD-RW and it doesn't take too long to burn, I'm usually eating breakfast once I've set it going anyway.

    I take disk images using PowerQuest DriveImage 7 and once a week or so copy them plus all my MP3s, downloads etc. onto a removable hard disk which uses an internal 5 1/4" removable tray. Not quite as nifty as a USB enc would be, as you have to power the machine off first. But at least that way I've got 160GB of fast(er) storage when I need it.

    I'm sure for a home-user environment where they're not tech savvy you could do the above but onto a USB hard drive and have them unplug it after it's backed up and keep it safe.

    HTH

  23. Re:What I've seen on Securing Personal Data in Small Companies? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    How dare they use such unsecure systems! Why, they could pay a few more pounds/bucks and use a password-protected MS Access database!

    </satire>
    I've seen that too. Same with back office systems. Worse, actually; some back officies have 5+ years of unencrypted credit card transactions

  24. Re:You poor USians on Securing Personal Data in Small Companies? · · Score: 1

    Heh. The Data Protection Act can be your friend...I recently had my email address along with over 1000 others Cc:ed to a marketing email that a company sent out to it's customers.

    Since then I've had 12+ UCE and 10+ non-UCE email from recipients ignoring the little "CC_List" in their Cc: box.

    Said company told me categorically that they didn't breach the DPA by disclosing my email address. I'd already talked to the Information Commissioner about it who said otherwise.

    I did show the droid that said it wasn't a breach how they could WHOIS my domain name and get my name and home address. Got a standard copied-and-pasted-from-brochure response :-)

    Am now pondering if I want to get the Information Commissioner to formally investigate the thing. I don't want to add to the "compensation culture" but do want the idiots to publicly admit they're wrong and say they did screw up. And then prove they're forwarding (and following-up to) abuse complaints to ISPs/hosts of every UCE that comes from it, ever.

    End of rant

  25. Close, but no BSOD on Public BSOD Sightings? · · Score: 1
    I had the fortune to see this Win2k startup screen (1280x1024 ~600K) while at Gatwick Airport (UK) in August 2001.

    It had seemedly hung too, so I didn't get to see the other software drag itself up, no fair!