but the latest round of 2005 versions basically have adware in with their virus defs.
Norton AV 2004 detects it, as does 2005. They don't seem to do anything effective with them. Symantec v9 can detect them in a scan, but doesn't in the on-access scan.
Adaware & Spybot, give them the lecture on how they can do it for themselves, charge for time. Ka-ching!
Most e-voting problems, they insist, are [l]user issues, where people who don't know how to deal with the new technology cause delays as they seek assistance.
Weren't Miami's problems in 2000 also "user issues, where people who don't know how to deal with the" (old) "technology cause delays" etc.?
The recent shutdown of LAX due to an FAA radio outage was apparently caused by a Windows 2000 integration flaw, possibility related to an old Windows 95 bug. An article at the LA Times claims that the outage was caused by human error, as the system will automatically shut down after 49.7 days (related to this Windows 95 flaw?), and a technician didn't reboot the system monthly as he should have. This happened after an upgrade from Unix to Windows.
Oh. Good. Lord.
There's just so much wrong with this picture. At least they picked the version of Windows least likely to flake out.
(Personal nightmare: finding a Windows computer running your life support)
I was not a librarian, I was one of the lowly "non-academic staff".
Tried to move up in civil service there (bennies were good (we haven't had health insurance most years since leaving)), but I never got anywhere, despite being at to top of the list for various civil service job rosters. I suspected (and still do) that I was on a blacklist of some sort.
Last bad job I voluntarily left, back in 1991, I gave 2 weeks notice, then counted down the seconds.
I still get nightmares about the place, sometimes.
Excuse me. I'll pass. I'd rather have a real knife than one of those weenie tech toys. An SAK can be expected to be useful for, easily, a human lifetime. This thing will be obsolete in 5 years.
"This is happening here because of an epidemic of kidnappings and murders in the last few years. Parents are really scared. Just this week there were two stories in the news, one a middle aged school teacher who tried to abduct two girls, and the other a 50 something policeman caught in molestation. Every week brings more stories. It has me scared too.
"On top of that, the 'youth culture' here is really out of control. Parents are just scared silly that their kids are heading into Tokyo to
work the streets for quick yen. The girls selling sex, of course, and the boys doing muggings and the like.
"There are real problems and parents are desperate for any kind of solution."
Liberty, American Rifleman (one of the US National Rifle Assoc. member magazines), the occational issue of Handloader, sometimes one of the other gun rags.
Computer trade rags get skimmed briefly then tossed, or just tossed.
I smile as I hear thunder, as it usually means one or more customers on dialup, with no surge protection on their phone line, coming in with toasted modem, dead computer, etc. Ka-ching!
Debian for the PPC. Set up Windowmaker. Set it up so the [i]only[/i] item in the the popup menu is Mozilla. You'll probably want a 3 button usb wheely mouse.
Remember the cynical geek-speek "your mileage may vary"? It comes from the observation that EPA mileage ratings have no necessarily close connection with reality.
Maybe. The company I was with in 1999 and 2000, Inacom, went from $70 to $.70 before trading stopped on it. Four years later I get a whopping big $6 check from settlement money for my ESOP.
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Hmm. My brother has been living at home for a few months, so I'll be needing to clean off porn dialers and crap like that, if history is any guide.
Adaware, Spybot.
Maybe put Firefox on and change the icon to the big blue E icon.
Check to see if Norton has expired, and bump them to a new version if it has.
If things are too awful I'll pull it in and do the backup and repave thing.
If she comes I'll be giving my sister a PII set up with Win2k, to replace an old W98 beater I gave them 2 or 3 years ago. No modem, no Internet.
I haven't had to look since getting this job in 2001. Thank God. So I've got no real feel for what things are like now.
I love the field and hate it at the same time. Maybe I should just go and get an FFL, and say "screw this computer lunacy."
I have a buddy of mine that's gone back into the Air Force. They're running him through school for M$ certs (he used to be an MP).
He's telling me I should go and be an overseas civilian contractor, for $100K or more. Uhhh, no thanks.
This story must be bogus. Australia has Gun Control now, and is perfectly safe.
Norton AV 2004 detects it, as does 2005. They don't seem to do anything effective with them. Symantec v9 can detect them in a scan, but doesn't in the on-access scan.
Adaware & Spybot, give them the lecture on how they can do it for themselves, charge for time. Ka-ching!
Weren't Miami's problems in 2000 also "user issues, where people who don't know how to deal with the" (old) "technology cause delays" etc.?
Why isn't there a checkbox for "never trust Microsoft"?
I can quit any time I want to, really.
If the federales try to make us decaffeinate coffee, they will have a real, live, hang-them-from-the-lamposts problem.
You don't blame the bike, you blame the person trying to use a grossly inappropriate tool.
Oh. Good. Lord.
There's just so much wrong with this picture. At least they picked the version of Windows least likely to flake out.
(Personal nightmare: finding a Windows computer running your life support)
But does McAfee do anything effective with them? How about McAfee Corporate (good) vs. the home user version (ukkkk!)?
The latest Norton (2004) detectes malware, but doesn't seem to do anything effective about it.
The best prevention is good surfing habits, and giving most Windows users no rights at all to install stuff.
Kinda low tech, but post a target like this in your window.
I was not a librarian, I was one of the lowly "non-academic staff".
Tried to move up in civil service there (bennies were good (we haven't had health insurance most years since leaving)), but I never got anywhere, despite being at to top of the list for various civil service job rosters. I suspected (and still do) that I was on a blacklist of some sort.
All sorts of other nasty things going on.
Last bad job I voluntarily left, back in 1991, I gave 2 weeks notice, then counted down the seconds. I still get nightmares about the place, sometimes.
Excuse me. I'll pass. I'd rather have a real knife than one of those weenie tech toys. An SAK can be expected to be useful for, easily, a human lifetime. This thing will be obsolete in 5 years.
"This is happening here because of an epidemic of kidnappings and murders in the last few years. Parents are really scared. Just this week there were two stories in the news, one a middle aged school teacher who tried to abduct two girls, and the other a 50 something policeman caught in molestation. Every week brings more stories. It has me scared too.
"On top of that, the 'youth culture' here is really out of control. Parents are just scared silly that their kids are heading into Tokyo to work the streets for quick yen. The girls selling sex, of course, and the boys doing muggings and the like.
"There are real problems and parents are desperate for any kind of solution."
BTW, Jim March is not now a programmer, he's a full time lobbyest for a gun owner's rights group.
Computer trade rags get skimmed briefly then tossed, or just tossed.
Gun owners have been putting up with this ATF crap for generations.
I smile as I hear thunder, as it usually means one or more customers on dialup, with no surge protection on their phone line, coming in with toasted modem, dead computer, etc. Ka-ching!
Debian for the PPC. Set up Windowmaker. Set it up so the [i]only[/i] item in the the popup menu is Mozilla. You'll probably want a 3 button usb wheely mouse.
Remember the cynical geek-speek "your mileage may vary"? It comes from the observation that EPA mileage ratings have no necessarily close connection with reality.
('89 Chevy Caprice, consistant low 20s highway.)
Maybe. The company I was with in 1999 and 2000, Inacom, went from $70 to $.70 before trading stopped on it. Four years later I get a whopping big $6 check from settlement money for my ESOP.