Re:You don't need to hack the registry...
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To redirect Documents and Settings to a drive. You can use gpedit.msc and/or tweakUI to handle that (on a per user basis even).
Easier solution would be to use the "mountvol" command or Disk Management and mount a partition directly on your Documents and Settings folder. Then C:\Doucments and Settings\ is actually a seperate filesystem you can backup, restore, etc.
Except that Documents and Settings would have to be an empty folder to be able to mount a partition to it. Besides, I am the user who likes to sometimes type out command lines. Who has the time to type out "C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\My Documents\" when you can type "C:\Home\Owner\Documents\" instead? (C:\Home is a mounted partition on my box, BTW)
Why tell him? Set the permissions so that he can't save to it.
Because if nobody tells the average user that he is being locked out of the System Drive and then said user receives an access denied message, said user is going to raise some hell.
Re:I want an integrated tool!
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I think the integrated tool you're looking for is called "properly configured Linux".
I am not trying to be anti-Linux here, since I am booted into it anyway, but I tend to believe that there is a "properly configured Windows XP" too.
It includes:
All users use a Limited account
The is ONE admin account, to be configured with a red desktop and boring scheme as to place zero doubt that no one is supposed to be there to do anything except to install software. Except for Windows Update, no user under any circumstance whatsoever should use Internet Explorer in the Admin account.
Zone Alarm
Ad-Aware
XP installed on 4-8GB partition
Documents and Settings redirected to another partition (yes, it is possible with a single reg hack)
Norton Ghost (on a FAT32 partition)
Good copy of System partition image on the FAT32 partition
Any suggestions?
I have a theory that the scumware threat in Internet Explorer becomes extremely inert when someone browses the Internet while logged into a limited account. Can't write to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT or HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE. Heck, can't write anywhere on the system partition. Can anyone confirm this theory?
Yes I have. Libel is making a false statement of a person. Calling him a name is not a true or false statement, but is rather opinion. Libel is not calling someone an asshat or shyster. Libel is saying he killed Nichole Brown Simpson. Libel is saying he accepted money from Evil, Corp. when in fact he didn't.
Libel is the difference between demeaning opinions and demeaning false statements.
Even a very good driver can have an accident with fatality because of normal lapses of human attention, motor control or health. Should we lock up or even financially ruin people for plain bad luck?
The real issue here is if the driver made a reasonable effort to drive safely. Have a DVD player on is certainly suspicious. He should still have a chance to prove he was looking at the road from the facts of the accident itself.
That is what the Jury is designed to do, isn't it? Driver A may have had a lapse of attention because he was looking at a street sign to see if it was the street he needed to turn on. I would reasonably expect a jury to rule that he wasn't grossly negligent. However, driver B, who was watching a DVD would be the negligent party.
I definitely believe that anyone who decides to watch DVDs while driving should have severe sanctions placed on him, while the driver who was innocently distracted trying to find a street sign shouldn't. However, I still think that innocent driver should take action to prevent an incident like that to occur again.
I have to agree. Quite frankly, I think some of the laws I have heard about should be modded -1, Redundant. As an (offtopic) example, I saw this John Kerry-bashing commercial, saying he voted against the Laci Peterson Law, designed to "protect pregnant women from violence," as if it weren't already illegal. Unfortunately, laws do not stop criminals, especially laws that outlaw a specific crime that has already been outlawed to begin with.
So if lawmakers stopped passing all these useless, redundant laws, we might just save some resources to perhaps ENFORCE the laws we already have.
In the process, I determined that one drive was bad, so I went to test the other. So then I plugged it in, then I realized after a pop that I still had my computer on.
think it would be a good start to develop an OS that can last ten years. It will become a huge strain on a budget to have to completely upgrade a system every two years.
Instead of putting out an OS that will die in two years, they should develop an OS that is highly expandable.
Besides, I still know a few people who still run Win95, and hell, even 3.1, and choose not to upgrade.
Maybe this is a step in the right direction for Microsoft.
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I believe that's my line, stranger...</mccoy>
Some people may call me a perennialist prick, but perhaps some of the struggles that some people have in math is not only that math just isn't their subject, but they tend to actively avoid it and toss me the "I don't get it" attitude, especially when they aren't trying. It is one thing for a student to have difficulty understanding some math, but it is different when they take the defeatist attitude. For these certain students, if they had a choice, they wouldn't do anything. Sometimes, there are just some things that we teachers just need to require. I want to make sure that all students take some knowledge from my classroom. If certain students refuse to have anything to do with math, I am not going to give them a free pass.
Now, on a side note, my 8-year-old nephew (well, 8 at the time) picked up my HP 49 to play with it. He is decent at math, though it is definitely not his favorite subject. Now after a little help from me, he caught on to RPN pretty quickly. Now, I am sure that he was most interested in getting the calculator to work as he expects. I don't think learning RPN would be too difficult for most students.
Giving a student an RPN calculator to work/play with is definitely a Constructivist moment, though.
One thing I am pondering is during the first week or two of a school term, I may have students study the basics of RPN and quiz them on it, like giving them an algebraic expression, and respond with a key sequence that will produce the expression.
More directly (without induction):
if T = 2^(2p+1) + 1:
T = 2^(2p+1) - 2 [mod 3]
T = 2(2^2p - 1) [3]
T = 2(4^p - 1) [3]
T = 2(1^p - 1) [3]
T = 0 [3]
qed
Um, you may have to clarify why 4^p (mod 3) is congruent to 1^p (mod 3).
In order for them to sue you, they must produce the songs in some format to the court as evidence. At that point, countersue them for "theft" (since they so like to use that word) of your IP and violation of your extremely restrictive EULA. Then offer them the chance to settle out of court for $20,000 -- the "value" of your songs at $2 each. Plus legal fees, pain and suffering, mental anguish, etc. of course.;)
The problem with that is that you place them on the Internet, which could void your theft claim.
Perhaps I would sing some songs, and put the recordings on the Internet, naming the files by song title only, leaving out names. Afterall, I don't want to get in trouble for misrepresentation.
My usage agreement could be something like this: Recordings are free for personal use only. Commercial/Corporate Entities must either pay a licensing fee or purge the MP3 immediately. Radio Stations must pay an additional fee to broadcast. Should a commercial/corporate entity choose to purchase a license to an MP3, they must also download and keep a copy of the license agreement in the folder with the MP3 at all times.
As far as I can tell, they are NOT suing people for downloading songs. They're suing them for UPLOADS.
On the contrary... I forgot the link at the moment, but 2 DOWNloaders in Connecticut were indeed sued by the RIAA. I'll post the link when (if) I find it.
The way to defeat browser caching is to make the IMG SRC point to a CGI that returns a REDIRECT (302) that points to the single-pixel image. So you might have IMG SRC="server/path/to/cgi?key1=val1&key2=val2". The browser will have to tick the CGI because it has "dynamic" parameters. However, the CGI has to return a REDIRECT because an intelligent proxy server in the middle might be trying to cache the output too. You don't care if the single-pixel image itself is cached, you just want to capture the CGI hit with all the parameters.
Go.com web-email actually throws in an extra parameter, like &r=[some random integer], to each link as a way to get around cache.
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To redirect Documents and Settings to a drive. You can use gpedit.msc and/or tweakUI to handle that (on a per user basis even). Easier solution would be to use the "mountvol" command or Disk Management and mount a partition directly on your Documents and Settings folder. Then C:\Doucments and Settings\ is actually a seperate filesystem you can backup, restore, etc. Except that Documents and Settings would have to be an empty folder to be able to mount a partition to it. Besides, I am the user who likes to sometimes type out command lines. Who has the time to type out "C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\My Documents\" when you can type "C:\Home\Owner\Documents\" instead? (C:\Home is a mounted partition on my box, BTW)
Because if nobody tells the average user that he is being locked out of the System Drive and then said user receives an access denied message, said user is going to raise some hell.
I am not trying to be anti-Linux here, since I am booted into it anyway, but I tend to believe that there is a "properly configured Windows XP" too.
It includes:
All users use a Limited account
The is ONE admin account, to be configured with a red desktop and boring scheme as to place zero doubt that no one is supposed to be there to do anything except to install software.
Except for Windows Update, no user under any circumstance whatsoever should use Internet Explorer in the Admin account.
Zone Alarm
Ad-Aware
XP installed on 4-8GB partition
Documents and Settings redirected to another partition (yes, it is possible with a single reg hack)
Norton Ghost (on a FAT32 partition)
Good copy of System partition image on the FAT32 partition
Any suggestions?
I have a theory that the scumware threat in Internet Explorer becomes extremely inert when someone browses the Internet while logged into a limited account. Can't write to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT or HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE. Heck, can't write anywhere on the system partition. Can anyone confirm this theory?
Yes I have. Libel is making a false statement of a person. Calling him a name is not a true or false statement, but is rather opinion. Libel is not calling someone an asshat or shyster. Libel is saying he killed Nichole Brown Simpson. Libel is saying he accepted money from Evil, Corp. when in fact he didn't.
Libel is the difference between demeaning opinions and demeaning false statements.
The point being I was trying to emphasize a habit of fixing something that isn't broken.
The day that Tim Taylor types long to never have to work on their cars is the day slashdotters long to never have to work on their computers.
Why? Because I know how to utilize the Security settings. No Javascript nor ActiveX controls will run from any site that I have not approved.
The real issue here is if the driver made a reasonable effort to drive safely. Have a DVD player on is certainly suspicious. He should still have a chance to prove he was looking at the road from the facts of the accident itself.
That is what the Jury is designed to do, isn't it? Driver A may have had a lapse of attention because he was looking at a street sign to see if it was the street he needed to turn on. I would reasonably expect a jury to rule that he wasn't grossly negligent. However, driver B, who was watching a DVD would be the negligent party.
I definitely believe that anyone who decides to watch DVDs while driving should have severe sanctions placed on him, while the driver who was innocently distracted trying to find a street sign shouldn't. However, I still think that innocent driver should take action to prevent an incident like that to occur again.
So if lawmakers stopped passing all these useless, redundant laws, we might just save some resources to perhaps ENFORCE the laws we already have.
In the process, I determined that one drive was bad, so I went to test the other. So then I plugged it in, then I realized after a pop that I still had my computer on.
Better than buying a Compaq.
That reminds me... Pizza Hut was getting ready to fund a proton space rocket, though I think the deal went sour.
Instead of putting out an OS that will die in two years, they should develop an OS that is highly expandable.
Besides, I still know a few people who still run Win95, and hell, even 3.1, and choose not to upgrade.
Maybe this is a step in the right direction for Microsoft.
I use Winamp and I certainly love having my Win+Z,X,C,V,N,{arrow keys} hotkeys to control Winamp.
I believe that's my line, stranger...</mccoy>
Some people may call me a perennialist prick, but perhaps some of the struggles that some people have in math is not only that math just isn't their subject, but they tend to actively avoid it and toss me the "I don't get it" attitude, especially when they aren't trying. It is one thing for a student to have difficulty understanding some math, but it is different when they take the defeatist attitude. For these certain students, if they had a choice, they wouldn't do anything. Sometimes, there are just some things that we teachers just need to require. I want to make sure that all students take some knowledge from my classroom. If certain students refuse to have anything to do with math, I am not going to give them a free pass.
Now, on a side note, my 8-year-old nephew (well, 8 at the time) picked up my HP 49 to play with it. He is decent at math, though it is definitely not his favorite subject. Now after a little help from me, he caught on to RPN pretty quickly. Now, I am sure that he was most interested in getting the calculator to work as he expects. I don't think learning RPN would be too difficult for most students.
Giving a student an RPN calculator to work/play with is definitely a Constructivist moment, though.
Well, that's enough rambling for me....
One thing I am pondering is during the first week or two of a school term, I may have students study the basics of RPN and quiz them on it, like giving them an algebraic expression, and respond with a key sequence that will produce the expression.
The only perception we have ever known is our own.
RPN is NOT inconvenient if you get used to it.
I actually prefer RPN.
This is why I chose the Induction proof over mod proof.
I was referring to 4^p and 1^p, not just 4 and 1.
More directly (without induction):
if T = 2^(2p+1) + 1:
T = 2^(2p+1) - 2 [mod 3]
T = 2(2^2p - 1) [3]
T = 2(4^p - 1) [3]
T = 2(1^p - 1) [3]
T = 0 [3]
qed
Um, you may have to clarify why 4^p (mod 3) is congruent to 1^p (mod 3).
Something tells me they want JS and Cookies enabled?
The problem with that is that you place them on the Internet, which could void your theft claim.
Perhaps I would sing some songs, and put the recordings on the Internet, naming the files by song title only, leaving out names. Afterall, I don't want to get in trouble for misrepresentation.
My usage agreement could be something like this:
Recordings are free for personal use only.
Commercial/Corporate Entities must either pay a licensing fee or purge the MP3 immediately.
Radio Stations must pay an additional fee to broadcast.
Should a commercial/corporate entity choose to purchase a license to an MP3, they must also download and keep a copy of the license agreement in the folder with the MP3 at all times.
On the contrary... I forgot the link at the moment, but 2 DOWNloaders in Connecticut were indeed sued by the RIAA. I'll post the link when (if) I find it.
Go.com web-email actually throws in an extra parameter, like &r=[some random integer], to each link as a way to get around cache.