I think it would be wise for companies to switch to use something like GPG and keep keys safe. The sooner this happens the sooner scammers will have a more difficult job with this style of social engineering.
I use to shower keyboards all the time, since the late 80s, when they'd been peed on or drooled on by special needs children. Give them an isopropyl alcohol rinse, let'em dry, and you're good to go. Also works with Apple ][ motherboards, joysticks, and the occasional 5-1/4" floppy that had jello shoved inside it (don't ask...). A few rules apply; no mechanical systems (there's a special cleaning solution for those), no power systems, no monitors (unless you LIKE grisly death), no headphones, no speakers, et cetera. Just solid state components and key switches only please. Q-tips, Vaseline, canned air, and isopropyl alcohol are all still tools of the trade. It's amazing what you can do with them even on modern hardware. probably the most informative post on this thread. thanks for the information
i might be wrong, in fact, very likely to be wrong, but wouldn't applying voltage cause hydrogen, or other gasses to be released from the water, and thus reduce the life span of the lens if it has to do much refocusing? and even so, wouldnt the released gasses interfere with the focusing?
When did "puking" and "barfing" become scientific terms? Wouldn't "ejaculate" be a more appropriate term? Ok, you asked, I think exhaust would be more appropriate.
who do i thank for that? i thought i had a descent dns block list, but they all got through. but i guess it serves me right for not updating it for some time, and i did take doubleclick.* out so that some other network users could see the ebay pages without white space.
but, for the article i was about to say that i am the fly in the otherwise perfect ms ointment that is the company where i work. everyone else is using and developing on windows desktops while i monitor the network and work as a sysadmin/developer with my gcc and perl. honestly, i can do stuff a lot faster, and mainly because i have 4 times the desktop real estate that everyone else is crammed into.
It depends on your domain. I've had my domain for several years now doing this exact same thing and get zero random spam. I would imagine that any half decent spammer is aware of the + addressing technique and is quite able to eliminate the +, and send directly to your primary e-mail account. Of course, my domain isn't really used for anything other than e-mail, so it's not likely to get targeted since there isn't really anything there. I get minimal spam anyway, and I use gmail for my domain and it generally gets caught right there. i dont think that anyone can think like this now, especially if they use a mail list of any volume. i use my mail addresses for work, home, family etc. but the moment one of them gets an address book harvest, then i have to make another address or domain...
Exactly. Even better, If you have your own domain name where all email gets delivered to one "catch all" makes it even easier. My friend uses a different email address for each site he signs up for to see who spams him or sells his email out. It's also a good way to know if a site is being honest with any policy where they state they won't do anything with your email address.
Additionally, it is a good idea to not use the exact same username for each site you have to "sign up" for, especially if you are unsure of the sites policies. The main problem for most folks is trying to remember all of this information when they want to log in. I've heard of devices that will help with this but have never tried them. oh please, please, for the love of god don't do that to yourself. so much spam is sent to rand()@example.com that this simply isn't feasible these days. it's better to use aliases@example.com than a -default.
No, they will change the manufacturing process to stop those dastardly internet pirates.
Every single bullet on the planet will be recoded to stop working in old unpatched guns. you say this... but i remember hearing that soviet ak47's have a slightly larger round than the exported model. the reason being that if they capture enemy weaponry they could use the smaller rounds in the russian model, but the enemy who capture russian rounds is shit outta luck. how true this is i cannot say, as i would think that the chamber should be a snug fit for the ammo.
Well I'm in the UK and I have one; for a few reasons
I hate the iPod interface, the twirling of the fingers is unnatural for me, and with bad carpal tunnel it can hurt.
iTunes bites under Windows (I swear Apple do it on purpose just to nudge people to OSX. That whole "Oh don't use Vista it will kill your iPod" was such FUD it was laughable; it's not like Vista betas weren't available for years). It's fat, bloated, forces QuickTime on you which then steals file extensions even if you tell it not to (the Zune software isn't good either, it's buggy as hell, and if it can't reach the network share your music is on it thinks it's gone and proceeds to clean it from the device. Morons)
My music is in mp3 and wma; I am not prepare to change formats after ripping upwards of 400 CDs, and re-encoding on device load just kills quality.
My creative zen was on it's last legs
Mind you the only other UK person I saw with one was an MS employee.
just one question, why did you rip to wma? seems odd to me when most players on the market are called 'mp3 players' rather than 'wma players', i've never noticed a 'wma player' in the argos catalogue.
You realize that a million isn't much right in the grand scheme of populations right?
In the UK, if a million were sold there you'd have a 1/54 chance [or so] of knowing someone who owned a Zune. In Canada, it'd be about 1/32 or so. And given that I don't regularly hang out with 32 peeps [assuming all were sold in Canada though...] it's not surprising me that I haven't seen one.
Tom but i work in a place where everyone has the latest gadget, nearly everyone has an ipod and a fancy phone. well, i dont see the need for the zune, unless it's going to be incredibly cheaper than the ipod here.
who bought these? i don't know anyone in the uk who has a zune.. for that matter i don't know anyone who has even SEEN a zune. did ms employees buy these at a knock-down rate?
Preoptimization sucks. Now if you wish to do anything DB related, you can't do anything too fancy because it's in a bdb.:P. Create the system sanely, then optimize w/ the complex heavy parts optimized.
Oh wait, I forgot this is php. Let's be clever! it totally depends on the job in hand and how often it is called. a 'system' might rely heavily on pre-optimisation, simply because of the way it's intended to function. a good cache can help tremendously.
[troll]Use Perl, mod_perl, profile your applications, and cache, cache, cache.[/troll] that's actually the best advice in this thread, caching that is. and perl does that well with hash lookups... so you dont need a db... just use bdb for most of the pages and get them from the bdb based on page url. that's much faster than dynamically creating the page and should be less of a resource hog overall.
How come a bunch of operating system vendors haven't got together yet and set up their own DNS-like system? Interesting. I guess that's easy enough to do, mirror the ubuntu mirror, and modify the root NS list in bind... then you can put the ISO up for others to download... Bingo, your own root NS, you could probably influence the people who look after the bind repository to do this for you anyway, for the right amount of money... maybe some of the OEM vendors also would do this quietly...
it's actually a pretty cool concept, tho (as with any good idea) it's been variously interpreted and applied.
from Wikipedia: [ducks] oohh! UBUNTU, for ages i've been reading it as 'ubutnut'... [/ducks]
that is a very interesting perspective to look at this with. i was just sitting and reading the thread trying to think of someway to suggest that ms will use this to try and find ways to sell vista.. but your reply is much better than anything i could have thought of as it's probably true.
Can't RTFA (since appear to be/.'d), but I just wonder, how many of these licenses were sold to Dell, Toshiba, HP, etc...
And since there are no more XP, well... well, i don't know how linux sales can count... shouldn't that be 'iso downloads'?
... whine about silly crap much? I disagree, the OP has a valid point. LED's are a distraction. In my car I have a radio that has some really pointless lights on it. Ultra bright LED's used to be cool, that is, until they start blinking like mad when I leave my computer on at night and it's just not important to see the power LED anymore, you know the computer is on from the sodding noise it makes.
Yeah, you're right here in that no matter where you get it from, torrent or straight from a server, it's still going to take ALOT of extremely unnecessary bandwidth to do this, on either a client or server side. They already speak of the state of the internet becoming bandwidth critical as we use more video online, why would anyone ever propose this? maybe the ISPs *want* people to use bandwidth to line their pockets when people need more, or rather, when the users demand a faster QoS from the software provider...
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I think it would be wise for companies to switch to use something like GPG and keep keys safe. The sooner this happens the sooner scammers will have a more difficult job with this style of social engineering.
[obligatory] in soviet russia broadband find you!! [/obligatory]
... in soviet russia google finds you!!
i might be wrong, in fact, very likely to be wrong, but wouldn't applying voltage cause hydrogen, or other gasses to be released from the water, and thus reduce the life span of the lens if it has to do much refocusing? and even so, wouldnt the released gasses interfere with the focusing?
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How long did you have to wait for the wii to come out?
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but, for the article i was about to say that i am the fly in the otherwise perfect ms ointment that is the company where i work. everyone else is using and developing on windows desktops while i monitor the network and work as a sysadmin/developer with my gcc and perl. honestly, i can do stuff a lot faster, and mainly because i have 4 times the desktop real estate that everyone else is crammed into.
Additionally, it is a good idea to not use the exact same username for each site you have to "sign up" for, especially if you are unsure of the sites policies. The main problem for most folks is trying to remember all of this information when they want to log in. I've heard of devices that will help with this but have never tried them. oh please, please, for the love of god don't do that to yourself. so much spam is sent to rand()@example.com that this simply isn't feasible these days. it's better to use aliases@example.com than a -default.
Every single bullet on the planet will be recoded to stop working in old unpatched guns.
you say this... but i remember hearing that soviet ak47's have a slightly larger round than the exported model. the reason being that if they capture enemy weaponry they could use the smaller rounds in the russian model, but the enemy who capture russian rounds is shit outta luck. how true this is i cannot say, as i would think that the chamber should be a snug fit for the ammo.
Why does the author use code that won't compile in the documentation?
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I totally agree with TIP #2 though, #define should not have been dropped from some modern C derivatives though.
so ... when is genthree coming out?
Well I'm in the UK and I have one; for a few reasons
Mind you the only other UK person I saw with one was an MS employee.
just one question, why did you rip to wma? seems odd to me when most players on the market are called 'mp3 players' rather than 'wma players', i've never noticed a 'wma player' in the argos catalogue.In the UK, if a million were sold there you'd have a 1/54 chance [or so] of knowing someone who owned a Zune. In Canada, it'd be about 1/32 or so. And given that I don't regularly hang out with 32 peeps [assuming all were sold in Canada though...] it's not surprising me that I haven't seen one.
Tom but i work in a place where everyone has the latest gadget, nearly everyone has an ipod and a fancy phone. well, i dont see the need for the zune, unless it's going to be incredibly cheaper than the ipod here.
who bought these? i don't know anyone in the uk who has a zune.. for that matter i don't know anyone who has even SEEN a zune. did ms employees buy these at a knock-down rate?
Oh wait, I forgot this is php. Let's be clever! it totally depends on the job in hand and how often it is called. a 'system' might rely heavily on pre-optimisation, simply because of the way it's intended to function. a good cache can help tremendously.
from Wikipedia: [ducks] oohh! UBUNTU, for ages i've been reading it as 'ubutnut'... [/ducks]
that is a very interesting perspective to look at this with. i was just sitting and reading the thread trying to think of someway to suggest that ms will use this to try and find ways to sell vista.. but your reply is much better than anything i could have thought of as it's probably true.
And since there are no more XP, well... well, i don't know how linux sales can count... shouldn't that be 'iso downloads'?
Be back later. Remember: it's down the street, not across the road.
... whine about silly crap much? I disagree, the OP has a valid point. LED's are a distraction. In my car I have a radio that has some really pointless lights on it. Ultra bright LED's used to be cool, that is, until they start blinking like mad when I leave my computer on at night and it's just not important to see the power LED anymore, you know the computer is on from the sodding noise it makes.What next? Lights to tell us the lights work?