Install Grub as the bootloader. Make the default boot partition (labeled as WinXP or something,like that) into a small linux that runs Duke's Boot & Nuke. Have a selectable option to boot the windows partition with a password.
The thief gets a boot menu, ignores it and it will take the default after 10 seconds so DB&N boots and trashes the HD
The normal user chooses his protected entry and can boot the machine into Windows normally. The only risk is if he misses the GRUB menu and heads into DB&N by accident.
There's also things like BIOS passwords that can be used to defeat the casual thief
Now, if the venerable IBM would please grow up and Open Source IMS we could have the best of both worlds.
That's not going to happen.
About 45% of IMS is still supplied as assembler source to licenced customers. It was first generally available before the IBM dictat that said "all source is confidential" and we'll only supply OCO (object code only) materials to customers.
DB2, IBM's hierarchical database was developed by the same people originally as a complete replacement for DL/I. But, DL/I databases are sill alive and well and supporting them is paying my mortgage.
It was used as the parts database for the Apollo program, Neil Armstrong wouldn't have made it to "One small step..." without IMS
IMS is still faster than DB2, but DB2 is easier to use from an application design and application programming point of view. That's why there's a Java/SQL interface to IMS databases.
Listening to a walkman with a friend constitutes a public performance. You have not acquired the proper license for for said performance. You now owe the RIAA $80,000 for infringement.
There's no RIAA in Aberdeenshire. But what the heck you'd have had to read the article to find that.
He may get a bill from The Performing Rights Society if more than ten folk can hear his Walkman.
I'm old enough that when I was at school in the UK (started at age 5 in 1968) we were taught imperial AND metric. We were taught base 12 and base 16 arithmetic. Then in 1971 they changed our money from pounds, shillings and pence (with twelve pence to the shilling and twenty shillings to the pound) to metric pounds and pence (100 new pence to the pound).
Since then we've switched from measuring petrol (gasoline) in imperial gallons (4.54litres) to litres. We've switched food and drink weights and measures from pounds and pints (20oz) to kilogrammes and litres (except for beer which is still served in a 20oz pint). We've switched from inches, feet and yards (3ft), furlongs, miles to centimetres, metres and kilometres (except for distances and speed limits). We've switched from acres to ares. We've switched from imperial tons (2240lb) to metric tonnes (1000Kg).
My children don't get taught the imperial stuff. They don't have to learn base 12 (inches to the foot) and base 16 (ounces to the pound) maths.
One day we'll ditch the old crap and stick with Napoleon's nice French, decimal units.
Sure there are a lot of vehicles, but the complexity can be managed by the following easy two-step process:
1. Today switch passenger cars to the right hand side
2. A week from now follow with the trucks too...
We do drive on the right (correct) side. The right side of the car on the left side of the street.
The switch was done by Sweden, one Thursday night at 18:00 they all moved to driving on the wrong (right) side of the street. I think they had the trucks switch over on the same day. Or they'd have been borked like the Swedish Chef.
Our stupid, inept, incompetent, incorrigable Gov't don't know their arse from their elbow. They can promise £250m, £500m or £5Bn. But while BT (a private company) own the infrastructure including the last mile local loop we won't get high-speed broadband unless they can turn it into a profit and keep their shareholders sweet.
My BT circuit (I don't get a choice there isn't a cable co.) has the last 800m from their cabinet on aluminium cables. I can't see that being replace with fibre any time soon.
The day this Moronic Gov't promises something that makes a difference to me and doesn't cost a fortune in wasted taxation I'll eat my hat.
I don't agree with censorship of any kind in any form. I'm straight so this being a GLBTQ issue doesn't bother me. What does bother me is that Amazon.com can adopt a policy like this.
Give users a safesearch option (like Google), if they're sensitive to stuff like this or homophobic, but don't inflict it on everyone.
Amazon.co.uk hasn't implemented the policy but I'd guess it will happen really soon.
That's precisely what RedHat are scared of. RH isn't keeping their original share of early desktop users because Ubuntu is a) easier to install, b) easier to maintain (give or take their security screw up), c) has better support for laptops and d) isn't RedHat.
Why Scotland? Nobody lives in Scotland, they send all their bankers and politicians south of the border to ruin my life and charge me exorbitant taxes.
I wish BT would get a move on with this in England. I'm on aluminium cable last 800 metres from the cabinet to my house and that struggles to run 512/216 ADSL.
This problem is only a problem because stupid people are careless with their passwords. Once that problem is solved (hah!) we're back to normal again.
The problem is because the Twitter authentication model sucks (the bozos that run Twitter are still using http basic auth). They never considered third-party auth using application authentication so that you don't have to enter your Twitter password on any website except twitter.com. (They should take a look at identi.ca which a) used OpenID and b) supports a proper 3rd party auth system.
The UK Advertising Standards Authority are a bunch of complete tossers.
Seldom has a truer statement been written on Slashdot. The ASA are a toothless quango, nobody takes them seriously, they serve to make the UK as complete laughing stock. The sooner they're disbanded and replaced by legislation the better.
In the wonderful land of Microsoft windows there's a threat of a virus/trojan/malware since Win3.1 with the glut of boot sector viruses that were popular when folks shared floppy diskettes - I don't understand why Microsoft haven't done more to fix it (perhaps they like folks making money from selling anti-virus software). The average threat currently lasts about a week before the virus writers move on to the next virus/trojan/malware and the old one starts to die. So the primary need for anti-virus software is to prevent the zero-day threat.
When folks publish an article saying company X anti-virus found nn% of the viruses we threw at it in our testing. That's nonsense, it should find 100% (unless the testers are writing new viruses or re-engineering old ones). If it doesn't then I don't want it.
On the whole they would do much better to assess the anti-virus on a) how it reacts to a zero-day threat, b) how much performance it takes out of your CPU and/or hard disk, c) whether it has to scan the whole disk every day/every week/every month or whether it has a constantly running service. Assess anti-virus on cost/performance. How often does it update, how fast does the vendor get the updates puushed out to the users to protect from something new. How much do they screw you for annual subscription.
In general I'm happy running freeware anti-virus like AVG or Avast. (On my linux machines I simply don't bother with having any anti-virus.)
And if the answer to that is "yes", then we should be asking the question: Why can't these vendors make a product that only allows my "good" programs to execute and nothing else?
Because such a product wouldn't need to be updated every year or require monthly subscriptions.
Which funnily enough is just how mainframe software is managed.
Guess what? We don't have viruses on mainframes, we have an IBM guarantee (since 1981) of security and integrity.
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For x64 machines, Go to the folder HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE > SOFTWARE > Wow6432Node > Mozilla > Firefox > Extensions
Delete key name '{20a82645-c095-46ed-80e3-08825760534b}'
It doesn't matter. .SE is only Sweden. If .SEX fell off; then the whole Internet would melt down into a small singularity.
Here's an idea.
Install Grub as the bootloader. Make the default boot partition (labeled as WinXP or something,like that) into a small linux that runs Duke's Boot & Nuke. Have a selectable option to boot the windows partition with a password.
The thief gets a boot menu, ignores it and it will take the default after 10 seconds so DB&N boots and trashes the HD
The normal user chooses his protected entry and can boot the machine into Windows normally. The only risk is if he misses the GRUB menu and heads into DB&N by accident.
There's also things like BIOS passwords that can be used to defeat the casual thief
Now, if the venerable IBM would please grow up and Open Source IMS we could have the best of both worlds.
That's not going to happen.
About 45% of IMS is still supplied as assembler source to licenced customers. It was first generally available before the IBM dictat that said "all source is confidential" and we'll only supply OCO (object code only) materials to customers.
DB2, IBM's hierarchical database was developed by the same people originally as a complete replacement for DL/I. But, DL/I databases are sill alive and well and supporting them is paying my mortgage.
It was used as the parts database for the Apollo program, Neil Armstrong wouldn't have made it to "One small step ..." without IMS
IMS is still faster than DB2, but DB2 is easier to use from an application design and application programming point of view. That's why there's a Java/SQL interface to IMS databases.
Listening to a walkman with a friend constitutes a public performance. You have not acquired the proper license for for said performance. You now owe the RIAA $80,000 for infringement.
There's no RIAA in Aberdeenshire. But what the heck you'd have had to read the article to find that.
He may get a bill from The Performing Rights Society if more than ten folk can hear his Walkman.
Since then we've switched from measuring petrol (gasoline) in imperial gallons (4.54litres) to litres. We've switched food and drink weights and measures from pounds and pints (20oz) to kilogrammes and litres (except for beer which is still served in a 20oz pint). We've switched from inches, feet and yards (3ft), furlongs, miles to centimetres, metres and kilometres (except for distances and speed limits). We've switched from acres to ares. We've switched from imperial tons (2240lb) to metric tonnes (1000Kg).
My children don't get taught the imperial stuff. They don't have to learn base 12 (inches to the foot) and base 16 (ounces to the pound) maths.
One day we'll ditch the old crap and stick with Napoleon's nice French, decimal units.
Next task for UK: driving on the right hand side.
Sure there are a lot of vehicles, but the complexity can be managed by the following easy two-step process: 1. Today switch passenger cars to the right hand side 2. A week from now follow with the trucks too...
We do drive on the right (correct) side. The right side of the car on the left side of the street.
The switch was done by Sweden, one Thursday night at 18:00 they all moved to driving on the wrong (right) side of the street. I think they had the trucks switch over on the same day. Or they'd have been borked like the Swedish Chef.
... so who needs a weblog (or "diary" as we used to call them when they were written on pulped dead trees).
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I had to google for that. Didn't make any sense.
IBM, otherwise known as "Big Blue", has filed a for a patent on 'Corporate logo's that include blue and white striped words that spell out I-B-M'.
Er, no. That's called a Worldwide registered trademark.
They already get 15% (VAT sales tax) when I buy something in the UK or Europe. They already get import duty on stuff from outside the EU.
They're also clueless on Internet advertising, I've not had unsolicited adverts for years, thanks to AdBlock and AdBlockPlus suppressing that crap.
My BT circuit (I don't get a choice there isn't a cable co.) has the last 800m from their cabinet on aluminium cables. I can't see that being replace with fibre any time soon.
The day this Moronic Gov't promises something that makes a difference to me and doesn't cost a fortune in wasted taxation I'll eat my hat.
And bears do defecate in the woods.
A glitch is a bug or a fuck up. It's nothing like a policy decision to remove adult, gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and questioning material.
press release
I don't agree with censorship of any kind in any form. I'm straight so this being a GLBTQ issue doesn't bother me. What does bother me is that Amazon.com can adopt a policy like this.
Give users a safesearch option (like Google), if they're sensitive to stuff like this or homophobic, but don't inflict it on everyone. Amazon.co.uk hasn't implemented the policy but I'd guess it will happen really soon.
That's precisely what RedHat are scared of. RH isn't keeping their original share of early desktop users because Ubuntu is a) easier to install, b) easier to maintain (give or take their security screw up), c) has better support for laptops and d) isn't RedHat.
You may not be able to run Linux. But SUPER MARIO KARTS is running on this SNES toaster
I wish BT would get a move on with this in England. I'm on aluminium cable last 800 metres from the cabinet to my house and that struggles to run 512/216 ADSL.
If they want a beta tester I'll do that for them.
My wireless access point is called Marconi. My old printer was Caxton. The new printer is Gutenberg.
Server and two desktop machines are Tom, Dick and Harry.
This problem is only a problem because stupid people are careless with their passwords. Once that problem is solved (hah!) we're back to normal again.
The problem is because the Twitter authentication model sucks (the bozos that run Twitter are still using http basic auth). They never considered third-party auth using application authentication so that you don't have to enter your Twitter password on any website except twitter.com. (They should take a look at identi.ca which a) used OpenID and b) supports a proper 3rd party auth system.
I prefer punch cards, but you've got to watch out for those pregnant chads.
I'm also going to vote down every result that Google returns that points to that crappy site.
It gets my vote for "most useless waste of ones and zeros".
Butane + Oxygen + spark = kabooom.
If the kid dies, he'll get my vote for a Darwin Award.
The UK Advertising Standards Authority are a bunch of complete tossers.
Seldom has a truer statement been written on Slashdot. The ASA are a toothless quango, nobody takes them seriously, they serve to make the UK as complete laughing stock. The sooner they're disbanded and replaced by legislation the better.
When folks publish an article saying company X anti-virus found nn% of the viruses we threw at it in our testing. That's nonsense, it should find 100% (unless the testers are writing new viruses or re-engineering old ones). If it doesn't then I don't want it.
On the whole they would do much better to assess the anti-virus on a) how it reacts to a zero-day threat, b) how much performance it takes out of your CPU and/or hard disk, c) whether it has to scan the whole disk every day/every week/every month or whether it has a constantly running service. Assess anti-virus on cost/performance. How often does it update, how fast does the vendor get the updates puushed out to the users to protect from something new. How much do they screw you for annual subscription.
In general I'm happy running freeware anti-virus like AVG or Avast. (On my linux machines I simply don't bother with having any anti-virus.)
And if the answer to that is "yes", then we should be asking the question: Why can't these vendors make a product that only allows my "good" programs to execute and nothing else?
Because such a product wouldn't need to be updated every year or require monthly subscriptions.
Which funnily enough is just how mainframe software is managed.
Guess what? We don't have viruses on mainframes, we have an IBM guarantee (since 1981) of security and integrity.