AntiVir costs 20 euros per year (less if you buy several years) and I'd say it's worth supporting.
The free version is well worth using (installed it on everyone I know's PC) but paid for version has malware checking, pop scanning, better update servers, well worth the price of a few beers.
Also shame about ClamWin, can it be that hard to hook a real time scanner up to it? (oh and, before you ask, no I cannot write it myself!:)
I seem to remember a lot of doom and gloom around the PS2's launch, how it was overpriced, underpowered, and would be a failure.
PS3 may get a rough start at that price, but given a few months, a couple of price drops, some killer games and more blu-ray movies, I'd be surprised if it wasn't still top seller, or at least a close 2nd.
Will there even be time for a format war? The rate things have been going these days I'll be buying a 24x BluRay-RW/HDDVD-RW/DL DVD+-RW/CDRW compatible burner for £30 in a few years, with low-end dual format players going for about £20.
The only technical difficulty will be how they'll fit all the logos on the tray door
legitimize BitTorrent? I thought BitTorrent was always supposed to be legit. It was, if I remember right (this is a long time ago:) written to enable content providers and OSS groups to distribute large files (eg. ISO images) without needing to spend large amounts on bandwidth.
Hence no built in searching, centralised architecture etc.
It was other people who realised, hey, we could use this to copy pirate movies around.
Is it just me, or has slashdot completely missed the point? Didn't April fools used to be about SUBTLEY making up BELIEVEABLE stories to try and trick people?
This pink color scheme isn't even funny and adding "aprilfools" to the articles is just defeating the point.
April fools used to be about clever wit, not just being as stupid as possible.
At least think geek have the vaguely right idea, tho have perhaps got a bit overexcited and again missed the subtlety part.
You didn't even read the article summary properly did you?
What's happening is Norton is being TOO secure, assuming that any IRC connection could be a bot and then locking your connection if it detects "typical" bot commands.
Of course pretty useless if the bot writers just use different commands, and I'd rather it picked it up with a firewall or when it actually installs, but doesn't seem like a too stupid idea.
Right, so, if for example Sony were the sole inventor of the BluRay DVD encryption scheme, then because they're based in Japan it wouldn't be covered by the DMCA in the US? I think not!
All these complaints against Google (especially from the US government) seem rather hypocritical, given that Google has already been censored with the DMCA.
Ok, the censored sites are viewable by reading the takedown notice, but why is it perfectly ok for Google to be censored by US laws and not Chinese laws? Chinese laws may be much worse at the moment but the principal is still the same.
T1, $500 a month? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA, what is this the late 90's? T1 is what, 1.5mbit? I get 10mbit, cable TV and phone line rental for £45 a month. I'm sure there are internet only deals that are better still then that. (ok it's only 384kbit up, but if the focus of the internet changes I can see them putting more upload bandwidth aside).
Of course this is assuming that broadband in the US is cheaper then the UK, which most things normally are.
The iexplore.exe.local trick seems to work for IE7.
Simply download the installer, use WinRAR or similar to unpack the installer into a folder, add an empty file called "iexplore.exe.local" then run iexplore.exe.
No having to uninstall IE6, or even install IE7 at all. The interface gets a bit messed up but it's definitely running a new engine (still some CSS bugs I can see tho, tut tut....)
Yes, if you're upgrading to an Intel-based iMac from an iMac G5 you bought just a few months ago, all of your non-Universal software will run at half speed.
I know apple users have a reputation for following fads, but I hope people don't rush out and by a new iMac every time they do a CPU upgrade (not even a new form factor!), please tell me they don't!!
People in the ID community have said that we don't even know how bees fly... We were finally able to put this one to rest.
"Finally able to put this one to rest"????
This taken from 1993!
Author: underdog
Text: Can you explain "how" it is that a bee is capable of flying?
Response #: 1 of 1
Author: ProfBill
Text: This is just an old engineering myth. There really is not a
problem understanding how bees fly. The muscles that move the wings down are
powerful enough to generated enough force to lift the weight of the bee. On
the downstroke, the wings are "feathered", that is turned vertically so that
moving up they do not generated a force down to undo all the work of lifting
the bee in the first place. Much like a rower turns the oar parallel to the
water on the return stroke, but perpendicular to the water to generate force
on the power stroke. It all adds up just fine. The real unanswered question
is how the bee's nervous system coordinates all this, especially the bit about compensating for wind, turning, etc.
As far as I can see the only difference with this article is they've got a bit more detail on it, talk about sensationalist headlines!
What ever happened to comfort? Those mini-mice you can get are bad enough, but this looks worse then those apple puck mice. Where do you rest your wrist?
It may look cool, but just looking at it is giving me carpel tunnel!
Slashdot Mirror
"Riken's machine occupies the space of a large walk-in closet and is an energy-sipper"
Remember the green cross code: Stop, Read, then Post.
Pfft, I remember playing with a bootable floppy containing QNX with a complete GUI, web browser, texteditor and full network support.
Ok, it had absolutely _nothing_ else but it was still damn cool.
wrong wrong WRONG!
SVG does support CMYK
It would have been a hideous omission not to include it in the standard, they'd never get anyone working in print to use SVGs without it.
And now, can we have those figures in terms of burning libraries of congress?
AntiVir costs 20 euros per year (less if you buy several years) and I'd say it's worth supporting.
:)
The free version is well worth using (installed it on everyone I know's PC) but paid for version has malware checking, pop scanning, better update servers, well worth the price of a few beers.
Also shame about ClamWin, can it be that hard to hook a real time scanner up to it? (oh and, before you ask, no I cannot write it myself!
I seem to remember a lot of doom and gloom around the PS2's launch, how it was overpriced, underpowered, and would be a failure.
PS3 may get a rough start at that price, but given a few months, a couple of price drops, some killer games and more blu-ray movies, I'd be surprised if it wasn't still top seller, or at least a close 2nd.
Will there even be time for a format war? The rate things have been going these days I'll be buying a 24x BluRay-RW/HDDVD-RW/DL DVD+-RW/CDRW compatible burner for £30 in a few years, with low-end dual format players going for about £20.
The only technical difficulty will be how they'll fit all the logos on the tray door
First of all that UFO looks familiar, and pretty small too, a lot like a small uav or perhaps a model flying wing design.
As for it being blurred, have you never seen this effect before, where you track a moving object with the camera while photographing it?? Duh.
legitimize BitTorrent? I thought BitTorrent was always supposed to be legit. It was, if I remember right (this is a long time ago :) written to enable content providers and OSS groups to distribute large files (eg. ISO images) without needing to spend large amounts on bandwidth.
Hence no built in searching, centralised architecture etc.
It was other people who realised, hey, we could use this to copy pirate movies around.
Well I wouldn't say it was a complete troll.
After all, if you've been writing windows exploits for x number of years in x86 assembly, which will be easier:
a) Writing OSX exploits in x86 assembly
b) Writing OSX exploits in PPC assembly
Of course I'd still be surprised if OSX had anywhere near as many security flaws as Windows, but it only takes one...
Seriously tho, could this april fools BE any worse?
Is it just me, or has slashdot completely missed the point? Didn't April fools used to be about SUBTLEY making up BELIEVEABLE stories to try and trick people?
This pink color scheme isn't even funny and adding "aprilfools" to the articles is just defeating the point.
April fools used to be about clever wit, not just being as stupid as possible.
At least think geek have the vaguely right idea, tho have perhaps got a bit overexcited and again missed the subtlety part.
You didn't even read the article summary properly did you?
What's happening is Norton is being TOO secure, assuming that any IRC connection could be a bot and then locking your connection if it detects "typical" bot commands.
Of course pretty useless if the bot writers just use different commands, and I'd rather it picked it up with a firewall or when it actually installs, but doesn't seem like a too stupid idea.
Right, so, if for example Sony were the sole inventor of the BluRay DVD encryption scheme, then because they're based in Japan it wouldn't be covered by the DMCA in the US? I think not!
I think I heard these playing at an Autechre gig
All these complaints against Google (especially from the US government) seem rather hypocritical, given that Google has already been censored with the DMCA.
Ok, the censored sites are viewable by reading the takedown notice, but why is it perfectly ok for Google to be censored by US laws and not Chinese laws? Chinese laws may be much worse at the moment but the principal is still the same.
Note to self, find more recent posts to copy
T1, $500 a month? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA, what is this the late 90's? T1 is what, 1.5mbit? I get 10mbit, cable TV and phone line rental for £45 a month. I'm sure there are internet only deals that are better still then that. (ok it's only 384kbit up, but if the focus of the internet changes I can see them putting more upload bandwidth aside).
Of course this is assuming that broadband in the US is cheaper then the UK, which most things normally are.
The iexplore.exe.local trick seems to work for IE7.
Simply download the installer, use WinRAR or similar to unpack the installer into a folder, add an empty file called "iexplore.exe.local" then run iexplore.exe.
No having to uninstall IE6, or even install IE7 at all. The interface gets a bit messed up but it's definitely running a new engine (still some CSS bugs I can see tho, tut tut....)
Yes, if you're upgrading to an Intel-based iMac from an iMac G5 you bought just a few months ago, all of your non-Universal software will run at half speed.
:) [pat. pending]
I know apple users have a reputation for following fads, but I hope people don't rush out and by a new iMac every time they do a CPU upgrade (not even a new form factor!), please tell me they don't!!
People in the ID community have said that we don't even know how bees fly ... We were finally able to put this one to rest.
"Finally able to put this one to rest"????
This taken from 1993!
Author: underdog
Text: Can you explain "how" it is that a bee is capable of flying?
Response #: 1 of 1
Author: ProfBill
Text: This is just an old engineering myth. There really is not a
problem understanding how bees fly. The muscles that move the wings down are
powerful enough to generated enough force to lift the weight of the bee. On
the downstroke, the wings are "feathered", that is turned vertically so that
moving up they do not generated a force down to undo all the work of lifting
the bee in the first place. Much like a rower turns the oar parallel to the
water on the return stroke, but perpendicular to the water to generate force
on the power stroke. It all adds up just fine. The real unanswered question
is how the bee's nervous system coordinates all this, especially the bit
about compensating for wind, turning, etc.
As far as I can see the only difference with this article is they've got a bit more detail on it, talk about sensationalist headlines!
Trillian is included. It's not there by default but they do give you the option here
Going a bit of topic here but what's peoples opinions of AntiVir? Seems fine myself but everyone else seems to use AVG
Forget that! We could've had interplanetary ships by the 70s if Kennedy hadn't killed Orion.
What ever happened to comfort? Those mini-mice you can get are bad enough, but this looks worse then those apple puck mice. Where do you rest your wrist?
It may look cool, but just looking at it is giving me carpel tunnel!