We see that free free free does not work unless there is some viable way to make money money money.
This is no different then free web space, free storage, or free internet. All of these glorious ideas have fallen by the wayside when people realized they could not be profitable.
Welcome, WAP, to this cruel cruel world.
Fee, Fee Fee Foe Foe Foe....After rereading said post and getting some language lessons, I would like to strike my previous post from the record.
Good thing the story wasn't about applesauce and pork chops or I would have really been screwed.
We see that free free free does not work unless there is some viable way to make money money money.
This is no different then free web space, free storage, or free internet. All of these glorious ideas have fallen by the wayside when people realized they could not be profitable.
That's the same strategy I use for everything. Even this slashdot account is on my hotmail. Once a week, I log in to it and delete all the email so they don't shut the account down.
I don't give my real email address out to anyone other then bill companies (utilities, mortgage, student loans) and my family.
It is this reasoning that keeps me from getting any spam what so every on my work or home email addresses.
The only accounts I have spam issues with are my webmaster@domain.com addresses that I have for the four or five sites that I admin. Those poor bastards get a large treatment from Cloudmark's Spamnet utility located at www.cloudmark.com.(Excuse me for not linking it, I am just lazy)
I want to get on the band wagon and file a suit against Overstock.com! I bought one thing from them and I have been getting bombarded with emails sometimes two or three times a day.
I even tried to opt out of their email list and the onslaught continues. So before they start sueing people they need to examine their in house activites.
An apple fan finds that something microsoft does is worse then Jobs' brain child....
Why is it that everytime Steve Jobs farts and it smells better then Gate's a@@ that I get to read about it on the frontpage of/. I get so sick of this, it's enough to make me delete my/. bookmark
You are correct for the most part, but ntuser.dat is also the file used in the profile under c:\documents and settings\%username% to keep user settings. I am sure this is linked to the User hive of the registry, but my point was he didn't have to reformat just for those problems.
Actually you are partially correct. NTUSER.DAT is a huge portion of the registry hive. The file I am talking about resides somewhere else.
Look in any install of Windows since Windows 2000 and under C:\Documents and Settings\%username%\ is a file called ntuser.dat.
This file contains all your custom settings like desktop, screensaver, colors, fonts, and application data. If it gets corrupt, you can recreate the profile in the Documents and Settings folder by renaming it whatever (%username%.old for example). Log the user back in and the profile will get recreated.
Copy the data from Favorites, Desktop, and My Documents from the old profile to the new one, and bam! you have just resolved you weirdest Windows problems....
They should take pictures in the morning of the mutated DNA straind that is Homeless Erectus. I am sure all those shopping carts are a magnet for the vagrants.
Seriously though, how much money was wasted on this. I don't even think it looks like DNA. It looks like a double helix of shopping carts. It was a complete waste of time, shopping carts, and my break.
I could not help but find myself in quite a humorous state as I read that article. As a Support Analyst for a Fortune 50 company, I see many of the errors that the user was describing in the beginning of the article. Unforunately for him, he reinstalled the OS. All he needed to do was recreate his Windows profile.
The right click locking explorer and the functionality loss of Mozilla were most definely not caused by the Reg, but more likely caused by a corrupted NTUSER.Dat file in the profile folder of his machine.
Furthermore, if you are currently reading this article on your home PC and not sitting behind a firewall of some sort, please send an email to banme@slashdot.org with the attention line reading I am no longer worthy.....just kidding just kidding.
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I googled the topic and found some really amazing information. This site covers this topic greatly. I was amazed at this illness. I am no were near a great person at remembering faces but I think it's amazing that if I walked up to you and said hello, then walked away for 10 mins and came back you wouldn't recognize me. It's like Finding Nemo all over again.:)
"Still, some people, affected by face blindness, cannot recognize one face from another one."
Ok call me crazy, but what the hell is face blindness. Unless you are talking about someone is truly blind, I cannot imagine an actual physical defect where people cannot see the difference between let's say your mommie's face and the face of Bill Gates.
I say instead of creating wonderful pieces of technology, just get the damn kid a pair of glasses or maybe some Prozac for his mental illness.
"The Stata Center will house many clients from the MIT community. The center is composed of The William H. Gates Building and the Alexander W. Dreyfoos Building. In addition to the client spaces, the Center houses an auditorium, four classrooms, a child-care facility, a food services facility, a fitness center, outdoor gathering spaces, two levels of below grade parking and a service facility.
Child care facility? Does each kid get a complete line of apparel from thinkgeek.com? I can see it now a room full of I TCP/IP but mostly IP and "newbie" T-shirts. The babies are teething on old mice and the toddlers are learning the standard QWERTY layout.
It puts a smile on my face to see Apple getting ripped on just like MS in the press for holes in their OS. Me and you could argue all day over which OS is better or more secure or stable, but any person who visits this site and does not agree that if the market share was 1:1 there would be just as many viruses and worms for all the OSs whethere they were Windows, OS X, Redhat, Lindows, or frigging Palm OS. I once read somewhere that if you printed off the code for Windows Xp and stacked it in a pile, it would be taller then the Empire State building. Regardless of how true you think that statement is, it would be impossible to release something that large without massive holes and bugs.
I don't care who you are and what you make, but when you do that much of it, and you have that many people touching it, there are going to be flaws. The bottom line is that all OSs require people like us to keep them updated and people like Symantec and McAfee to protect them. If you fail to do those things and put your machine behind a firewall then god bless you.
I work for a Fortune 50 company and we got hit with Blaster back in the Fall of last year because we used SMS to release patches. No one actually bothered to realize that about 50 percent of our machines in the company had broken SMS installs. No one bothered to listen to me screaming during the meetings to turn automatic updates on, so we pay the price.
Such is life, live and let die and fire anyone who is ignorant enough to not update their machines.
I cannot believe that bacteria actually live in a damp, most of the time warm, and majority of the time lightless atmosphere. This is the greatest scientific acheivement of the 21st century. Noble is rolling over in his grave. They better patent this finding before someone else does. jeez!
Dude, no offense, but how is he pissing his money away. He bought 50 million in stock. Plus, he puts more money into starving kids then I will put into my actual kids faces in their lifetime. Give the guy a break.
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This is no different then free web space, free storage, or free internet. All of these glorious ideas have fallen by the wayside when people realized they could not be profitable.
Welcome, WAP, to this cruel cruel world.
Fee, Fee Fee Foe Foe Foe....After rereading said post and getting some language lessons, I would like to strike my previous post from the record.
Good thing the story wasn't about applesauce and pork chops or I would have really been screwed.
Well if you run through the woods in the dark, sooner or later, you will hit a tree.
This is no different then free web space, free storage, or free internet. All of these glorious ideas have fallen by the wayside when people realized they could not be profitable.
Welcome, WAP, to this cruel cruel world.
I don't give my real email address out to anyone other then bill companies (utilities, mortgage, student loans) and my family.
It is this reasoning that keeps me from getting any spam what so every on my work or home email addresses.
The only accounts I have spam issues with are my webmaster@domain.com addresses that I have for the four or five sites that I admin. Those poor bastards get a large treatment from Cloudmark's Spamnet utility located at www.cloudmark.com.(Excuse me for not linking it, I am just lazy)
I want to get on the band wagon and file a suit against Overstock.com! I bought one thing from them and I have been getting bombarded with emails sometimes two or three times a day.
I even tried to opt out of their email list and the onslaught continues. So before they start sueing people they need to examine their in house activites.
Why is it that everytime Steve Jobs farts and it smells better then Gate's a@@ that I get to read about it on the frontpage of /. I get so sick of this, it's enough to make me delete my /. bookmark
You are correct for the most part, but ntuser.dat is also the file used in the profile under c:\documents and settings\%username% to keep user settings. I am sure this is linked to the User hive of the registry, but my point was he didn't have to reformat just for those problems.
Actually you are partially correct. NTUSER.DAT is a huge portion of the registry hive. The file I am talking about resides somewhere else.
Look in any install of Windows since Windows 2000 and under C:\Documents and Settings\%username%\ is a file called ntuser.dat.
This file contains all your custom settings like desktop, screensaver, colors, fonts, and application data. If it gets corrupt, you can recreate the profile in the Documents and Settings folder by renaming it whatever (%username%.old for example). Log the user back in and the profile will get recreated.
Copy the data from Favorites, Desktop, and My Documents from the old profile to the new one, and bam! you have just resolved you weirdest Windows problems....
They should take pictures in the morning of the mutated DNA straind that is Homeless Erectus. I am sure all those shopping carts are a magnet for the vagrants.
Seriously though, how much money was wasted on this. I don't even think it looks like DNA. It looks like a double helix of shopping carts. It was a complete waste of time, shopping carts, and my break.
I could not help but find myself in quite a humorous state as I read that article. As a Support Analyst for a Fortune 50 company, I see many of the errors that the user was describing in the beginning of the article. Unforunately for him, he reinstalled the OS. All he needed to do was recreate his Windows profile.
The right click locking explorer and the functionality loss of Mozilla were most definely not caused by the Reg, but more likely caused by a corrupted NTUSER.Dat file in the profile folder of his machine.
Furthermore, if you are currently reading this article on your home PC and not sitting behind a firewall of some sort, please send an email to banme@slashdot.org with the attention line reading I am no longer worthy.....just kidding just kidding.
I googled the topic and found some really amazing information. This site covers this topic greatly. I was amazed at this illness. I am no were near a great person at remembering faces but I think it's amazing that if I walked up to you and said hello, then walked away for 10 mins and came back you wouldn't recognize me. It's like Finding Nemo all over again. :)
"Still, some people, affected by face blindness, cannot recognize one face from another one."
Ok call me crazy, but what the hell is face blindness. Unless you are talking about someone is truly blind, I cannot imagine an actual physical defect where people cannot see the difference between let's say your mommie's face and the face of Bill Gates.
I say instead of creating wonderful pieces of technology, just get the damn kid a pair of glasses or maybe some Prozac for his mental illness.
"The Stata Center will house many clients from the MIT community. The center is composed of The William H. Gates Building and the Alexander W. Dreyfoos Building. In addition to the client spaces, the Center houses an auditorium, four classrooms, a child-care facility, a food services facility, a fitness center, outdoor gathering spaces, two levels of below grade parking and a service facility.
Child care facility? Does each kid get a complete line of apparel from thinkgeek.com? I can see it now a room full of I TCP/IP but mostly IP and "newbie" T-shirts. The babies are teething on old mice and the toddlers are learning the standard QWERTY layout.
It's only a major threat if you haven't updated your machine. If you are behind in updates, then you should be infected. Period, end of story.
It puts a smile on my face to see Apple getting ripped on just like MS in the press for holes in their OS. Me and you could argue all day over which OS is better or more secure or stable, but any person who visits this site and does not agree that if the market share was 1:1 there would be just as many viruses and worms for all the OSs whethere they were Windows, OS X, Redhat, Lindows, or frigging Palm OS. I once read somewhere that if you printed off the code for Windows Xp and stacked it in a pile, it would be taller then the Empire State building. Regardless of how true you think that statement is, it would be impossible to release something that large without massive holes and bugs. I don't care who you are and what you make, but when you do that much of it, and you have that many people touching it, there are going to be flaws. The bottom line is that all OSs require people like us to keep them updated and people like Symantec and McAfee to protect them. If you fail to do those things and put your machine behind a firewall then god bless you. I work for a Fortune 50 company and we got hit with Blaster back in the Fall of last year because we used SMS to release patches. No one actually bothered to realize that about 50 percent of our machines in the company had broken SMS installs. No one bothered to listen to me screaming during the meetings to turn automatic updates on, so we pay the price. Such is life, live and let die and fire anyone who is ignorant enough to not update their machines.
I cannot believe that bacteria actually live in a damp, most of the time warm, and majority of the time lightless atmosphere. This is the greatest scientific acheivement of the 21st century. Noble is rolling over in his grave. They better patent this finding before someone else does. jeez!
Dude, no offense, but how is he pissing his money away. He bought 50 million in stock. Plus, he puts more money into starving kids then I will put into my actual kids faces in their lifetime. Give the guy a break.