Hmm, lets say you keep images of drive of machine you send for repair... then its their word against your word. And considering material involved, your word will not have as much weight, as you would look like real deal trying to save his ass.
Not to mention, if the machine is too fubar'ed to be able to image anything (remember: you're sending it in for repairs.... which means that it probably needs repairing...)
Or you can send it there without disk. Someone who is going to plant pictures can as well just plant harddrive there.
You seem to have great ideas to pull this off. Does anybody here know a computer repair guy living near Thunderbay, Canada. I'd have a job for him:-)
In Windows wouldn't this be as easy as changing the time on the computer then copying the file over?
On Unix too... Indeed, if you use touch to manipulate the atime or mtime of a file, it automatically sets the ctime to current date. And there is no "normal" way to backdate the ctime.
So just set the system clock back, touch the file, and set it to normal again. We used this once to hide traces of having read the test questions off the teacher's computer...
What if the repair guy had found naked pictures of the guy's wife, and posted them on the Internet?...
And most importantly: what if the repair guy had just planted the pictures himself?
What if the PC had been brought in, not for installation of a new DVD drive, but because it was "broken" (i.e. broken by the same virus or trojan that dropped the images)?
This looks like a great tool of revenge if you're savvy enough to write a trojan, or if you know somebody at the computer repair shop, hehe.
... drugs found under the carpet in the trunk or in the glovebox...
The mechanic would have had no reasonable need to have searched those two areas to perform the job he was hired to do.
Agree about the carpet. But glovebox is fair game. Maybe the mechanic only wanted to put his stamp into the service book (which is usually kept in the glovebox...)
In my case I was permanently cured of that the first time I found GAY pr0n, not the good kind, ie: girl on girl, the OTHER kind:)
Please keep your bigoted homophobia to yourself.
Just let's hope my mechanic won't freak out the next time he sees brown stains on the back seats of my car, and a mysterious white sweet & salty liquid on the filter of my air conditioning.
Learn your users personalities. Learn their level of user. Then use that information when assisting them. It makes it person and real for them and they will respect you more. No matter how many times you've heard the question or been presented with the problem, the user hasn't. It's like the person at walmart being asked where the trash bags are 100 times a day. He knows, and has said it a 100 times, but when you're the 99th person asking, he might be tired of hearing that same question over and over and gets rude.
psssht: put up a sign.
Or how about: do not re-arrange the aisles every two weeks.
Yeah, the same way as "the pre-installed Windows isn't free, they just stole the license fee from the buyer". But, now go and try to complain about such a shop to the police...
Same way here: you can bet that if this was indeed theft, that the petrol station's operator wouldn't have hesitated to take the surveillance camera's footage to police, with more severe consequences to the poster. Yes, even in 1999-2000, petrol stations already had cameras.
So yes, taking advantage of poor business choices is not theft. After all, the poster didn't hold a gun the station operator's head and said "windows on the pumps or your life!".
Ok, you're right, grand-parent still wasn't completely honest... not guilty of theft, but rather of lying: indeed, even with Detroit's gaz guzzling landyachts, I can hardly imagine having to fill up several times in a same week...
What? Are the RIAA and MPAA now in the business of squatting domain names? Makes sense to me: after all, their previous business model is running out of steam....
Indeed, bugs do exist at the time of inspection, they are just not (yet) known. No change of laws of physics is required, only discovery of yet unknown (or underestimated) effects.
SQL injection is hardly "a security vulnerability in Microsoft's SQL Server database."
Then, how come these vulnerabilities are almost exclusively seen on Microsoft SQL Server (usually fronted by ASP or Cold Fusion)? Why never on Oracle? Why never on MySql? Even MS Access is more secure (it doesn't toss out schema information as readily as Microsoft SQL Server does).
Or maybe,... hmmm... use a real database server server rather than Micro$oft Sewer Server?
But the funniest part is that they don't learn from their mistakes. A couple a website of the Florida Coast Guard (also under.mil) which was supposed to contain educational material, magically redirected to aljazeera.com . It took them a couple of days to notices, a couple of months to fix (... during which time the site was offline, with varying explanations...), and then back up with new software (presumably safer). But how the heck is it possible that they didn't communicate the incident to other.mil webmasters, to make sure they doublechecked their software too?
while slyly stating that you won't have to deal with... and "major compatibility issues.'
Great! Now we have it from Asus itself that it ships hardware that has major compatibility issues... with software pre-installed by Asus itself. Given that the company is obviously so inept, who tells us that there aren't any similar compatibility issues between the hardware and its BIOS. Well probably there are, and we should warn friends, family and employers to shy away from such a lousy brand.
Ok, so in reality Asus was probably paid by Microsoft to say this. Like the so numerous companies that were paid to display an "XXX recommends Microsoft Windows" on their website. But if they sell out their judgment so easily, why should they be trusted on anything else that they say? That too would be a reason to run.
And strategically this whole thing is really really stoopid on Asus' part, especially now after all the competitors (even Acer!) have brought out similar mini-laptops running Linux.
source is in svn/cvs, fucking learn how to check it out.
No problem with that, but other packages usually make a tar-ball of a known-good version available.
Svn/cvs is great if you want to participate in development, but a little bit suboptimal if you don't. Hundreds of questions pop up, such as which tag to get (if versions are even tagged...), and is generally a hassle if all you want is just compile and run the stuff.
Speak for yourself. I had even trouble fucking downloading that stuff. Despite being on Sourceforge, sources seem to nowhere be found. Or maybe the download is just broken today? Does anybody know how to report a project on sourceforge?
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You mean downloading all that porn got me a virus?
Practice safe downloading. Put a condom on your network connector.
Hmm, lets say you keep images of drive of machine you send for repair ... then its their word against your word. And considering material involved, your word will not have as much weight, as you would look like real deal trying to save his ass.
Not to mention, if the machine is too fubar'ed to be able to image anything (remember: you're sending it in for repairs.... which means that it probably needs repairing...)
Or you can send it there without disk. Someone who is going to plant pictures can as well just plant harddrive there.
You seem to have great ideas to pull this off. Does anybody here know a computer repair guy living near Thunderbay, Canada. I'd have a job for him :-)
In Windows wouldn't this be as easy as changing the time on the computer then copying the file over?
On Unix too... Indeed, if you use touch to manipulate the atime or mtime of a file, it automatically sets the ctime to current date. And there is no "normal" way to backdate the ctime.
So just set the system clock back, touch the file, and set it to normal again. We used this once to hide traces of having read the test questions off the teacher's computer...
If your mechanic is licking your A/C filter to see what the mysterious white goo tastes like, then he's not going to be freaked out by much...
Though, in that case, I'd gladly supply him more of that goo directly from the source... It tastes so much better when it's fresh!
What if the repair guy had found naked pictures of the guy's wife, and posted them on the Internet?...
And most importantly: what if the repair guy had just planted the pictures himself?
What if the PC had been brought in, not for installation of a new DVD drive, but because it was "broken" (i.e. broken by the same virus or trojan that dropped the images)?
This looks like a great tool of revenge if you're savvy enough to write a trojan, or if you know somebody at the computer repair shop, hehe.
... drugs found under the carpet in the trunk or in the glovebox...
The mechanic would have had no reasonable need to have searched those two areas to perform the job he was hired to do.
Agree about the carpet. But glovebox is fair game. Maybe the mechanic only wanted to put his stamp into the service book (which is usually kept in the glovebox...)
In my case I was permanently cured of that the first time I found GAY pr0n, not the good kind, ie: girl on girl, the OTHER kind :)
Please keep your bigoted homophobia to yourself.
Just let's hope my mechanic won't freak out the next time he sees brown stains on the back seats of my car, and a mysterious white sweet & salty liquid on the filter of my air conditioning.
NTFS doesn't have any skeletons hidden in nearby parks...
Learn your users personalities. Learn their level of user. Then use that information when assisting them. It makes it person and real for them and they will respect you more. No matter how many times you've heard the question or been presented with the problem, the user hasn't. It's like the person at walmart being asked where the trash bags are 100 times a day. He knows, and has said it a 100 times, but when you're the 99th person asking, he might be tired of hearing that same question over and over and gets rude.
psssht: put up a sign.
Or how about: do not re-arrange the aisles every two weeks.
The gas wasn't free, you stole it.
Yeah, the same way as "the pre-installed Windows isn't free, they just stole the license fee from the buyer". But, now go and try to complain about such a shop to the police...
Same way here: you can bet that if this was indeed theft, that the petrol station's operator wouldn't have hesitated to take the surveillance camera's footage to police, with more severe consequences to the poster. Yes, even in 1999-2000, petrol stations already had cameras.
So yes, taking advantage of poor business choices is not theft. After all, the poster didn't hold a gun the station operator's head and said "windows on the pumps or your life!".
Ok, you're right, grand-parent still wasn't completely honest... not guilty of theft, but rather of lying: indeed, even with Detroit's gaz guzzling landyachts, I can hardly imagine having to fill up several times in a same week...
What? Are the RIAA and MPAA now in the business of squatting domain names? Makes sense to me: after all, their previous business model is running out of steam....
How do you guarantee that steel is the best material or that the iron won't suddenly turn liquid at room temperature?
Better analogy would be, how do you guarantee carbonated steel doesn't turn brittle in icy waters or how do you guarantee that the wind doesn't induce fatal vibrations matching the resonant frequency of the bridge.
Indeed, bugs do exist at the time of inspection, they are just not (yet) known. No change of laws of physics is required, only discovery of yet unknown (or underestimated) effects.
That's nice. It will give Hans Reiser something to do.
Unfortunately, Hans Reiser prefers chicks...
SQL injection is hardly "a security vulnerability in Microsoft's SQL Server database."
Then, how come these vulnerabilities are almost exclusively seen on Microsoft SQL Server (usually fronted by ASP or Cold Fusion)? Why never on Oracle? Why never on MySql? Even MS Access is more secure (it doesn't toss out schema information as readily as Microsoft SQL Server does).
And, how do they taste barbecued?
But the funniest part is that they don't learn from their mistakes. A couple a website of the Florida Coast Guard (also under .mil) which was supposed to contain educational material, magically redirected to aljazeera.com . It took them a couple of days to notices, a couple of months to fix (... during which time the site was offline, with varying explanations...), and then back up with new software (presumably safer). But how the heck is it possible that they didn't communicate the incident to other .mil webmasters, to make sure they doublechecked their software too?
Yeah Linux users lick really good.... but they become bitchy once you start mentioning 64 bit processors.
while slyly stating that you won't have to deal with ... and "major compatibility issues.'
Great! Now we have it from Asus itself that it ships hardware that has major compatibility issues... with software pre-installed by Asus itself. Given that the company is obviously so inept, who tells us that there aren't any similar compatibility issues between the hardware and its BIOS. Well probably there are, and we should warn friends, family and employers to shy away from such a lousy brand.
Ok, so in reality Asus was probably paid by Microsoft to say this. Like the so numerous companies that were paid to display an "XXX recommends Microsoft Windows" on their website. But if they sell out their judgment so easily, why should they be trusted on anything else that they say? That too would be a reason to run.
And strategically this whole thing is really really stoopid on Asus' part, especially now after all the competitors (even Acer!) have brought out similar mini-laptops running Linux.
Tried the 64 bit link that you posted, but unfortunately, it contains only garbage too...
Ok, so how do you start this fucking thing? The zip doesn't contain any usable binary either...
source is in svn/cvs, fucking learn how to check it out.
No problem with that, but other packages usually make a tar-ball of a known-good version available.
Svn/cvs is great if you want to participate in development, but a little bit suboptimal if you don't. Hundreds of questions pop up, such as which tag to get (if versions are even tagged...), and is generally a hassle if all you want is just compile and run the stuff.
I tried downloading the x86 version, but there was no source in there...
I've always had less trouble with MPC-HC
Speak for yourself. I had even trouble fucking downloading that stuff. Despite being on Sourceforge, sources seem to nowhere be found. Or maybe the download is just broken today? Does anybody know how to report a project on sourceforge?
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It is...
It cost $10 a day for bandwidth that was none too awesome.
Wifi at airports is free. If you are paying for it, you're doing it wrong.
Here's how to do it: