Do you, by chance, know of any spyware removal tools that do not need to be installed to be run? It's been a while but I seem to remember having to install Spybot & Ad-aware. I'm looking for something I can throw on a cd, just pop it in and run it. No installing required.
"I have 320GB in storage on my desktop that cost all of $200"
That's excellent that you have $200 to spend on storage. Personally, my family can barely get by (total income is about $10000/year), so just deciding to spend $200 on a bigger hard-drive is not something I can do. If it wasn't for being given a two 20GB hard-drives for free, I'd likely still be using a 10GB in my desktop and a 4GB in my server. In fact, I was looking the other day for anything larger, the smallest I could find was 80GB selling for ~$150 (CA), still out of my price range.
My point is that although you may have money, not everyone is as well off.
More exciting to put the proccessor in at a 90 degree angle from the direction it is supposed to go in. The proccessor my dad was putting in (t'was a 486) made a satisfying popping sound and left a fair sized hole in itself.
Then again, poke at capacitors could be pretty fun too...
I was originally going to say something about the pot calling the kettle black before I realized that you can probably read fine it's just writing you have trouble with. Perhaps a good book on grammar and spelling would do you some good. In closing:
"Please... Any modern game will work fine on any modern card using DX or Open GL. Any game that says "works best with nvidia/ati" is either fulfilling a marketing deal or trying to cut support issues (having problems with the game? oh you're running a matrox, sorry we only support ati/nvidia...""
Splinter Cell (Original) for PC.
I had a 64 MB video card that was apparently completely DirectX compliant, and it would crash before even playing the cinematics.
I was very lucky and my dad bought me a 128MB ATI Radeon, put that in and started the game up and it worked like a charm.
"wtf are you on? More than 50% of people use Half-Life's OpenGL renderer over its D3D or Software renderers. Namely due to its better performance on most cards, and that the D3D Renderer is unstable and causes crashes in some instances."
I have to agree with that. When I run Half-Life in OpenGL, it runs much faster than when it's run in D3D.
You're kind of comparing apples to oranges here. A car is usually locked and if not almost always required a key to start. A TV sitting on the curb is usually not secured.
So a more appropriate comparison would be comparing taking a car with taking a tv which has been locked to a tree and bolted to the ground in four places.
No, because they are often locked and if not they almost always require a key to start. This means the person (intentionally or not) made an attempt to secure the car.
I haven't seen these voting machines, so I have no idea at all what the current ones are like, but here's what I think would work well:
ATM style upright machine. Even an ATM style screen with the buttons and everything. Press the button beside the name of who you want to vote for. Machine confirms your choice. After your choice has been confirmed, a small receipt is printed inside the machine and is viewable through a clear plastic window. Again, machine confirms "Is the vote correct?". If it is it drops it into the machine, if not it discards it and starts over.
Being Slashdot, I know someone will sit and poke about 1000 holes in my idea, but oh well.
I believe I also heard on from some news outlet or another (true, a lot of the news companies cannot be trusted, but I digress) that some counties had as high as a 110% turnout. Although this could be blamed on other things, such as human errors, it is quite likely it was the voting machines.
Often when it comes to computer security it is knowledge not intelligence that will help you. This still leaves the problem that there isn't really a concrete && satisfactory definition of intelligence.
"How can a holographics video disc be used greedily anyway? It's a damn disc that holds information."
Well, they could patent something really generic that covers their disc and most other logical solutions for storing this amount of data on some sort of disc, then charge $15 per disc or something, while it costs them $2 to produce, and due to the patent no one could market a cheap alternative.
I run test senders against two or three RBLs, then run through ClamAV then SpamAssassin. ClamAV will block any infected e-mail messages & notify the recipient (if on my server) and myself. SpamAssassin puts the standard headers in all the messages. If the score is greater than 8 IIRC, it will simply prefix the subject with "[SPAM]" and deliver it to the client to let them decide what to do with it. This is with the default SpamAssassin ruleset.
The in Thunderbird I simply drop all [SPAM] marked messages into a directory and check them over from time to time. I have had no false positives so far, and only 1 or 2 spams get through per week on average. For such a relitively simplistic setup, it serves me well:)
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I had was running a chat server a long, long time ago on... crap, now what was the name of the software... oh, yeah: Visual Chat
This look 3D enough for you?
ND
Actually, you still don't know how to make a hyperlink ^_^
HINT: You need quotes (") around the URL.
NuclearDog
Do you, by chance, know of any spyware removal tools that do not need to be installed to be run? It's been a while but I seem to remember having to install Spybot & Ad-aware. I'm looking for something I can throw on a cd, just pop it in and run it. No installing required.
ND
What's the ".prn" stand for? pr0n?
ND
'their servers' not 'there servers'.
"Imagine the potential of machines which can generate electricity by deleting old Word documents!"
Forget that! Imagine the potential of machines which can generate electricity by deleting spam messages!
ND
su isolate
wine my_virus_executable.exe
I keep a seperate account on my machine specifically for running untrusted programs, so no worries for me.
ND
"I have 320GB in storage on my desktop that cost all of $200"
That's excellent that you have $200 to spend on storage. Personally, my family can barely get by (total income is about $10000/year), so just deciding to spend $200 on a bigger hard-drive is not something I can do. If it wasn't for being given a two 20GB hard-drives for free, I'd likely still be using a 10GB in my desktop and a 4GB in my server. In fact, I was looking the other day for anything larger, the smallest I could find was 80GB selling for ~$150 (CA), still out of my price range.
My point is that although you may have money, not everyone is as well off.
ND
More exciting to put the proccessor in at a 90 degree angle from the direction it is supposed to go in. The proccessor my dad was putting in (t'was a 486) made a satisfying popping sound and left a fair sized hole in itself.
Then again, poke at capacitors could be pretty fun too...
ND
"DUDE LAPTOP?? lol learn to read plz :P"
:D"
I was originally going to say something about the pot calling the kettle black before I realized that you can probably read fine it's just writing you have trouble with. Perhaps a good book on grammar and spelling would do you some good. In closing:
"DUDE GRAMMER?!? lol i r having no grammer
ND
Also, anyone who uses Flash simply to make the flag over 'Windows XP' wave should be shot. With an elephant gun. At point blank range. In the head.
(Bottom of the right hand column of the floating element.)
ND
"Please... Any modern game will work fine on any modern card using DX or Open GL. Any game that says "works best with nvidia/ati" is either fulfilling a marketing deal or trying to cut support issues (having problems with the game? oh you're running a matrox, sorry we only support ati/nvidia...""
Splinter Cell (Original) for PC.
I had a 64 MB video card that was apparently completely DirectX compliant, and it would crash before even playing the cinematics.
I was very lucky and my dad bought me a 128MB ATI Radeon, put that in and started the game up and it worked like a charm.
ND
"wtf are you on? More than 50% of people use Half-Life's OpenGL renderer over its D3D or Software renderers. Namely due to its better performance on most cards, and that the D3D Renderer is unstable and causes crashes in some instances."
I have to agree with that. When I run Half-Life in OpenGL, it runs much faster than when it's run in D3D.
ND
"Please, who gives a damn about the so-called pirates (stupid phrase, anyway)."
At least he said pirates instead of thieves!
ND
You're kind of comparing apples to oranges here. A car is usually locked and if not almost always required a key to start. A TV sitting on the curb is usually not secured.
So a more appropriate comparison would be comparing taking a car with taking a tv which has been locked to a tree and bolted to the ground in four places.
ND
No, because they are often locked and if not they almost always require a key to start. This means the person (intentionally or not) made an attempt to secure the car.
ND
Quite all right. I run it on several machines (both desktop & server), so I more than make up for the one lost user.
ND
I've got 2 invites I'll give away. Who wants 'em?
ND
I haven't seen these voting machines, so I have no idea at all what the current ones are like, but here's what I think would work well:
ATM style upright machine. Even an ATM style screen with the buttons and everything. Press the button beside the name of who you want to vote for. Machine confirms your choice. After your choice has been confirmed, a small receipt is printed inside the machine and is viewable through a clear plastic window. Again, machine confirms "Is the vote correct?". If it is it drops it into the machine, if not it discards it and starts over.
Being Slashdot, I know someone will sit and poke about 1000 holes in my idea, but oh well.
Cheers,
ND
I believe I also heard on from some news outlet or another (true, a lot of the news companies cannot be trusted, but I digress) that some counties had as high as a 110% turnout. Although this could be blamed on other things, such as human errors, it is quite likely it was the voting machines.
ND
Often when it comes to computer security it is knowledge not intelligence that will help you. This still leaves the problem that there isn't really a concrete && satisfactory definition of intelligence.
ND
Read it again slowly. He said that a patch conflicted with the RAID. He didn't specificy a specific patch.
ND
"How can a holographics video disc be used greedily anyway? It's a damn disc that holds information."
Well, they could patent something really generic that covers their disc and most other logical solutions for storing this amount of data on some sort of disc, then charge $15 per disc or something, while it costs them $2 to produce, and due to the patent no one could market a cheap alternative.
That greedy enough for you?
ND
Well, that leaves me approximately 2 hours to stock up with as much porn & warez as humanly possible!
OH NOES!
ND
Somewhat more elaborate than my setup.
:)
I run test senders against two or three RBLs, then run through ClamAV then SpamAssassin. ClamAV will block any infected e-mail messages & notify the recipient (if on my server) and myself. SpamAssassin puts the standard headers in all the messages. If the score is greater than 8 IIRC, it will simply prefix the subject with "[SPAM]" and deliver it to the client to let them decide what to do with it. This is with the default SpamAssassin ruleset.
The in Thunderbird I simply drop all [SPAM] marked messages into a directory and check them over from time to time. I have had no false positives so far, and only 1 or 2 spams get through per week on average. For such a relitively simplistic setup, it serves me well
ND