If it's ads that contain these annoying sounds, just block the ads. Hit them where it hurts. I recommend Proxomitron because it runs as a proxy and hence covers all all your browsers simultaneously (but you can ad rules for individual browsers with header matching).
Alternatively, if you just use Firefox, you can try the Adblock extension but, personally, Proxo is alot more powerful. If you're comfortable with regex, willing to learn a few $commands()'s, it's the way to go.
Unfortunately it's Windows only, and no longer in development (sadly the author died and never released the source), but it's still widely used and has a quite a little community about it. If you need it, I'm sure someone else can point you to a Linux solution.
Lumberjacks rule! When your tree falls upon and destroys a newly rehomed family's dwelling you can laugh at the accomplished architect maliciously, lunge at him with your axe and whip off his limbs...but watchit he'll bite your legs off
Compared to the time taken for releases by 'the scene' that do 3 pass SVCD encodes and such craziness, the extra time to capture from VCR in real time is insignificant. Not so long ago you could find quite a few VHSRip's.
Installing Daemon Tools and then being given the option to opt out of crapware is not the same as, nor does it even compare to:
Sony BMG's rootkit installing itself without user intervention
The software being of a poor quality. You're Windows analogy suggests essentially that Daemon Tools is now a totally useless or inferior, or somehow less valuable, product just because it is now bundled with some optional junkware. If the software was of a poor quality you wouldn't be installing it, crapware or not.
Something 'wrecking' my hard drive. Daemon Tools doesn't, and even if I installed it's crapware it still wouldn't.
All the examples you give, and infact your entire reply, are about the right and individual has to bitch about something bad that has happened to them. And you can bitch if you're so inclined, I never said grandparent couldn't say it's a damn shame, and that he now has a different opinion of D-Tools or it's author. I was merely pointing out in my first post that Barik should be bloody grateful Daemon Tools is not as bad as any of the examples you give.
On a tangent, your Windows/OS analogy could be better served by Linux. You pay for Windows one way or another, therefore you expect, have some kind of mediocre right to receive, or atleast can acceptably demand, a level of service, maintenance or warrenty with the product. The Linux kernel on the other hand, I believe, is explicitly distributed with "absolutely no warranty, whatsoever". The quality of the product, in reality, is irrelevent to your point.
I don't care if the setup lets you uncheck the option to install the spyware; it shouldn't be there in the first place.
Not that i'm defending the inclusion of (mal|spy|shit)ware with genuinely useful software (I also use a slightly out of date version of Daemon Tools) but you have absolutely no right to say what the author can and can't include in his software package.
The fact that you can choose not to install the crud is a blessing (saves you ripping it out with Spybot afterward). Does an extra setup screen really piss you off that much? Why don't you e-mail the author and suggest he makes it shareware or payware, that'd be a lot better wouldn't it...
In my opinion, and the article concludes with almost the same point, the 'future trends of malware' will be determined in response to the future trends in software, such as the focus on cracking down on browser phishing, the rise in popularity of open source and the totally net integrated space age home the world has always been promised, but just hasnt happened yet.
Conclusion: more of the same but general software reacts to malware much more slowly than the counter reaction.
ext2ifs by John Newbigin (the one linked by parent). It says on the website "This version probably does not work under XP SP2".
ext2ifs by Stephan Schreiber. It's freeware but doesn't appear to be Open Source (so presumeably contains no GPL'd code). There are Windows XP screenshots on the site and it's x86 only.
I was trying to avoid the pagerank debate but heres my 2.2 cents anyway
It's obviously not a significant part of the 'slashdot experience' for a huge majority of slashdot readers.
Unless you're a submitter with a commercial gain to be had from a higher pagerank it doesn't benefit submitters much either (Evidence: see sibling regarding small # of manual clicks).
If a submitter's own website may genuinely be an interesting to/.er's then this should be, or should have been, in a front page summary at some point already. This is what Slashdot is supposed to be about. Theres no need to give such sites a constant stream of hits from unrelated news though.
Points to the contrary:
You could argue that randomly increasing the pagerank of the websites of the technically minded is a good thing for geek awareness everywhere! Right on brother!
Slashdot has ad's already benefiting Rob and Co, but other submitter's don't get paid, why shouldn't they get some commercial gain from a higher page rank? It's not like any news source (/. inclusive) is nuetral, unbiased and uninvolved these days anyway.
Changing the code will mean stretching and possibly tabbing, it's not healthy.
I've been visiting Slashdot for about 3 years now and _I didn't know_ the submitter username linked to a page of their choosing until just now. I always assumed they were links to the submitters user profile and thus never clicked or even hovered my rodent over them.
I'm not sure if i'm making a point here, perhaps that submitter link just isn't very significant?
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Personally i'd rather code in Borland Delphi/Kylix or Free Pascal any time. On the Windows platform it's wonderful, there are handy utilities to convert C (and C++?) header files to Delphi units and extract type libraries from Microsoft's COM/COM+ damnations (I dislike interfaces) so you can get away with alot. Not to mention it was the second language to 'support'.NET (after C#).
Whats sir if one or more said people in the room are not peeping, sleeping, dead or deaf, dumb and blind? This new DRM technology obviously infringes the rights of those with such disabilities.
Basically, a script on the server was compromised, because of incorrect security settings on the server, and used as a zombie phishing mailer script.
To a certain extent this is also the submitters fault. If you must rely on server configuration for security related matters runtime checks for required functionality or config options should be made and if not satisfied your scripts should quickly perform a respectable suicide.
A good example is PHP's magic_quotes_gpc which often protects novice PHP developers from SQL injection attacks, but when moving scripts to a new host where this functionality is disabled it will soon bite them in the arse.
For personal development i've set myself a directory of perl scripts that don't interact directly with live html (they aren't CGI's), but rather perform small web related tasks on a bunch of files. I still edit my markup in a text editor. Here is a taste of what I mean.
paragraph.pl: Replaces "\r\n\r\n" with "</p%gt;\r\n\r\n<p%gt;" to properly paragraph text.
image.pl: Let's me issue a command like "add madness.png 4 right" to add an <img/> tag to before the 4th paragraph of a chunk of text and float it to right (by applying the 'right' class attribute to it).
thumbnails.pl: Give it a directory, it simply creates a subdirectory called 'thumbnails' and creates a dump load of thumbnails of a specific size therein.
I have a few dozen like this organised into folders, some taking a filename parameter but most just slurp stuff in via stdin and spitting out via stdout.
For the most part, this suits my style of personal web development. I find it difficult and discouraging to finish a project and polish it off only to have it 'out of fashion' or hate it myself in a few months time. This method let's me idley write small scripts, almost out of boredom, and put them to use. Recycling code is made very easy as well.
Of course personal pages these days have to have a bit of flashy interactivity. For that I get away with as much as I can on the client side. For example, manipulating lists using javascript for fast navigation (no not using xmlhttprequest, just manipulating the DOM), this saves on dynamic server side navigation code (Think of how many URL's out there you've seen ending in something like 'index.php?page=login'... yuck!).
For real interactivity, commenting underneath photos for example, comments are written using a live (cgi) perl script to a flat text file and a cronjob at my webhost crawls the directory tree every so often, does some filtering and validation, regenerates the comments html, and deletes the source files. The comments HTML in included into the photo page then using a server side include.
Simplistic but.... sufficient for a geeks personal webpage?
Personally I use Symantec AntiVirus 'Corporate' 9 (legit of course), which doesn't seem to suck up too many resources and doesn't look like most Norton crap (and you wouldn't expect it to, since it came out before Norton bought out Symantec).
Not that I care all that much, but THEY set up some goofy "mms" protocol that makes me download their entire !@#!@ movie before playing it, instead of streaming over HTTP like any other sane person... so I'll download the entire thing before watching 10-20 seconds of their 20 minute video...
MMS is a streaming protocol. Streaming over HTTP is just plain dumb, if you want to skip forward/backward in the stream you have to interrupt communications to issue a new request and the protocol offers no resilience to changes in streaming rate.
Think yourself lucky you can download it at all, on Windows you have to use 3rd party software (that doesn't always work) to save an MMS stream to a file.
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If it's ads that contain these annoying sounds, just block the ads. Hit them where it hurts. I recommend Proxomitron because it runs as a proxy and hence covers all all your browsers simultaneously (but you can ad rules for individual browsers with header matching).
Alternatively, if you just use Firefox, you can try the Adblock extension but, personally, Proxo is alot more powerful. If you're comfortable with regex, willing to learn a few $commands()'s, it's the way to go.
Unfortunately it's Windows only, and no longer in development (sadly the author died and never released the source), but it's still widely used and has a quite a little community about it. If you need it, I'm sure someone else can point you to a Linux solution.
Here is a taster of what Engadget can look like after a few rules in Proxo.
P.S.
On the morality of blocking ads: nobody complains when you goto fetch a drink and take a jimmy riddle during the commercial break, now do they?
I wouldnt say there is a hurry in providing decent NTFS drivers for Linux, although they're obviously at a disadvantage it's taking a long time.
Lumberjacks rule! When your tree falls upon and destroys a newly rehomed family's dwelling you can laugh at the accomplished architect maliciously, lunge at him with your axe and whip off his limbs...but watchit he'll bite your legs off
Dunno about the codes being 'leaked', one of my cheapy players came with instructions on a bit of paper in the box.
Compared to the time taken for releases by 'the scene' that do 3 pass SVCD encodes and such craziness, the extra time to capture from VCR in real time is insignificant. Not so long ago you could find quite a few VHSRip's.
(2) these aren't the type of people who would know how to crack it.
So where do all the illegal screener releases come from?
All the examples you give, and infact your entire reply, are about the right and individual has to bitch about something bad that has happened to them. And you can bitch if you're so inclined, I never said grandparent couldn't say it's a damn shame, and that he now has a different opinion of D-Tools or it's author. I was merely pointing out in my first post that Barik should be bloody grateful Daemon Tools is not as bad as any of the examples you give.
On a tangent, your Windows/OS analogy could be better served by Linux. You pay for Windows one way or another, therefore you expect, have some kind of mediocre right to receive, or atleast can acceptably demand, a level of service, maintenance or warrenty with the product. The Linux kernel on the other hand, I believe, is explicitly distributed with "absolutely no warranty, whatsoever". The quality of the product, in reality, is irrelevent to your point.
I don't care if the setup lets you uncheck the option to install the spyware; it shouldn't be there in the first place.
Not that i'm defending the inclusion of (mal|spy|shit)ware with genuinely useful software (I also use a slightly out of date version of Daemon Tools) but you have absolutely no right to say what the author can and can't include in his software package.
The fact that you can choose not to install the crud is a blessing (saves you ripping it out with Spybot afterward). Does an extra setup screen really piss you off that much? Why don't you e-mail the author and suggest he makes it shareware or payware, that'd be a lot better wouldn't it...
In my opinion, and the article concludes with almost the same point, the 'future trends of malware' will be determined in response to the future trends in software, such as the focus on cracking down on browser phishing, the rise in popularity of open source and the totally net integrated space age home the world has always been promised, but just hasnt happened yet.
Conclusion: more of the same but general software reacts to malware much more slowly than the counter reaction.
Thats faster than my net connection.
Thats a higher capacity than my hard drive.
Thats before I was born.
*humbled*
Err damn for once i can't be a lazy arse and skip to the conclusion, guess i best find out about those numbers relatively :/
Points to the contrary:
I've been visiting Slashdot for about 3 years now and _I didn't know_ the submitter username linked to a page of their choosing until just now. I always assumed they were links to the submitters user profile and thus never clicked or even hovered my rodent over them.
I'm not sure if i'm making a point here, perhaps that submitter link just isn't very significant?
Personally i'd rather code in Borland Delphi/Kylix or Free Pascal any time. On the Windows platform it's wonderful, there are handy utilities to convert C (and C++?) header files to Delphi units and extract type libraries from Microsoft's COM/COM+ damnations (I dislike interfaces) so you can get away with alot. Not to mention it was the second language to 'support' .NET (after C#).
Doxygen is a documentation system for C++, C, Java, Objective-C, Python, IDL (Corba and Microsoft flavors) and to some extent PHP, C#, and D.
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No Perl?
Whats sir if one or more said people in the room are not peeping, sleeping, dead or deaf, dumb and blind? This new DRM technology obviously infringes the rights of those with such disabilities.
Nice idea for a hack, but let's see you do something with like read a barcode or OCR a sentence
The site states $1.00 per gigabyte (1,073,741,824 bytes) of transfer. This seems to conflict with your song writing friends numbers.
Create DOS Boot Floppy Disk in Windows XP
I agree.
Basically, a script on the server was compromised, because of incorrect security settings on the server, and used as a zombie phishing mailer script.
To a certain extent this is also the submitters fault. If you must rely on server configuration for security related matters runtime checks for required functionality or config options should be made and if not satisfied your scripts should quickly perform a respectable suicide.
A good example is PHP's magic_quotes_gpc which often protects novice PHP developers from SQL injection attacks, but when moving scripts to a new host where this functionality is disabled it will soon bite them in the arse.
For personal development i've set myself a directory of perl scripts that don't interact directly with live html (they aren't CGI's), but rather perform small web related tasks on a bunch of files. I still edit my markup in a text editor. Here is a taste of what I mean.
/> tag to before the 4th paragraph of a chunk of text and float it to right (by applying the 'right' class attribute to it).
... yuck!).
paragraph.pl: Replaces "\r\n\r\n" with "</p%gt;\r\n\r\n<p%gt;" to properly paragraph text.
image.pl: Let's me issue a command like "add madness.png 4 right" to add an <img
thumbnails.pl: Give it a directory, it simply creates a subdirectory called 'thumbnails' and creates a dump load of thumbnails of a specific size therein.
I have a few dozen like this organised into folders, some taking a filename parameter but most just slurp stuff in via stdin and spitting out via stdout.
For the most part, this suits my style of personal web development. I find it difficult and discouraging to finish a project and polish it off only to have it 'out of fashion' or hate it myself in a few months time. This method let's me idley write small scripts, almost out of boredom, and put them to use. Recycling code is made very easy as well.
Of course personal pages these days have to have a bit of flashy interactivity. For that I get away with as much as I can on the client side. For example, manipulating lists using javascript for fast navigation (no not using xmlhttprequest, just manipulating the DOM), this saves on dynamic server side navigation code (Think of how many URL's out there you've seen ending in something like 'index.php?page=login'
For real interactivity, commenting underneath photos for example, comments are written using a live (cgi) perl script to a flat text file and a cronjob at my webhost crawls the directory tree every so often, does some filtering and validation, regenerates the comments html, and deletes the source files. The comments HTML in included into the photo page then using a server side include.
Simplistic but.... sufficient for a geeks personal webpage?
First impressions are important. Well how software looks matters to me anyway.
Avast! Home Edition 4.6.744 Screenshots
AVG Free Edition 7.361 Screenshots
Personally I use Symantec AntiVirus 'Corporate' 9 (legit of course), which doesn't seem to suck up too many resources and doesn't look like most Norton crap (and you wouldn't expect it to, since it came out before Norton bought out Symantec).
Not that I care all that much, but THEY set up some goofy "mms" protocol that makes me download their entire !@#!@ movie before playing it, instead of streaming over HTTP like any other sane person... so I'll download the entire thing before watching 10-20 seconds of their 20 minute video...
MMS is a streaming protocol. Streaming over HTTP is just plain dumb, if you want to skip forward/backward in the stream you have to interrupt communications to issue a new request and the protocol offers no resilience to changes in streaming rate.
Think yourself lucky you can download it at all, on Windows you have to use 3rd party software (that doesn't always work) to save an MMS stream to a file.
If i tell you he or she might throw a chair at me and/or fucking kill me