It really depends how much you've outgrown Notepad, but grab a copy of Python (if you're windows only grab the ActiveState version)
anyway.
Didn't read all the posts so far but most folks
seem to have forgotten Python's inbuilt
"dictionary" type and pickling. If it's a fairly
small DB then that (without even Sqlite etc..)
would do the job. My bet would be try the inbuilt
dictionary and if your data needs get too large
(or queries too complex or ad hoc) use sqlite.
See here.
I've been using it with no problems for B4,B5 and RC1. The only problem I have here with RC1 is with AVG 8's safesearch.
Right now the only thing that (was, is?) giving me grief on RC1 is the blasted urlclassifier bug which thrashes the hell out of the hard disk (but that seems to be better now I've had RC1 a few days).
Yep, I loathe Norton's crufty internet security as well. When you try to Add remove it in control
panel it tells you to login. When you login (if
it's damaged) it just sits and meditates.
How many other companies have software specifically designed to remove their *own*
product? See SymNRT. Link to Symantec site
is at the bottom.
I've just spent 15 minutes screaming "wait a minute I remember something like this from a while
back". So here it is - the Advance 86
These popped up in "Dixons" (UK) for a while and then magically vanished. Turns out that they were
compatible in the sense that the BIOS (at least AFAIK) *was* an IBM BIOS (grins).
A friend of mine claims they took the money and
ran before IBM came after them...
Unlike "Pear?" etc (the Apple ][ clone) this time around Apple might have more trouble pulling the plug I guess.
Sigh. It was either waste some of my mod points
or comment. Given the amount of noise about
"surrendering french" etc. on this thread I feel
moved to comment instead.
Here goes:
Most of the slashdot crowd (being from that
insular part of the world known as the United
States of America) seem to have difficulty
understanding any other part of the world.
A heck of a lot of us live in countries where the
native language isn't English. I'm English from
the UK, but living 20 years over here in Greece
(Europe).
Most of the laptop vendors ship *only* the local
native language version of (mostly) Windows Vista.
If you're really lucky then you might see the
English version.
I spend a lot of time "cleaning" bloody Greek
Vista *off* new Acers, HP notebooks and replacing
it with English XP. You see - here in Athens
(Greece if you forgot) we have lots and lots of
people from all over the world (who don't want a
Greek system but got stuck with it when they
bought their nice new shiny whatever).
I have the pleasure of babysitting a friends
internet cafe (on sundays it's more like Manilla
than Athens because that's the day the girls from
the Phillipines get their day off - eat yer heart
out
basement dwellers (grins)).
Some of this nonsense wouldn't be needed if Vista shipped MUI out of the tin . (Curiously though the MUI version of XP seems to be the norm amongst my friends from the arab world).
If a machine ships with what is essentially a "useless" system, then you should be able to refuse the EULA and get a refund. What i'd really like to see is some EU wide ruling as to the *size* of that refund so that consumers would be aware of their rights . Fitness for use etc. is an issue.
Annoys me as well, but many "industrial robots" are really remote manipulators. I always remember the first one I saw at Rolls Royce Aerospace (Bristol UK) (early 80's).
So darn dangerous it had it's own room . Needed
it too - they were cutting turbine blades. One
oops, and it's hypersonic ninja dices and slices
time...
See here
(I just noticed the Waldo story reference has
something which prefigures Feynmann's "Plenty of
Room at the Bottom" . Wonder if he got that idea
from Heinlein?
AVG Free 8.0 (free.grisoft.com) or AVG free
antirootkit if they are using 7.5 free.
Hint: AVG 8 *removes* their old free antirootkit.
For techie users grab the sysinternals toolkit
from majorgeeks etc. (Rootkit revealer).
For real techies a copy of "Rootkit Unhooker LE" (rku.nm.ru) but (like Hijack This) hide this one from non techie users so they don't fiddle with it...
(oh and beware some versions of daemon tools which
use rootkit like functionality to hide their virtual cd driver).
.. and it wasn't just the Christmas lectures, but at least in the early 70's the Open University's programs (on before 7.a.m. on BBC2). Not to mention public libraries with decent popular texts (e.g. "Frontiers of Astronomy" (Fred Hoyle). Nothing like learning how stars work from someone who worked on how stars work...
(plus of course Dr.Who, Star Trek, the Apollo Programme and Sci-Fi friendly public libraries).
Talking about the UK. Wonder what experiences are in other countries...
Truth is though, that any kid with an interest in science can easily end up being the dunce of the class out of sheer boredom.
(I know, I came *last* in my 1st year of secondary edu at physics). Weird really because I got a distinction
at S level physics, and went off and did a BSc in
chemistry at Bristol . (Never used it though,
ended up playing with computers...).
Oh, and even though Universities *hated* it the Nuffield Science project was pretty neat...
You need something like IFF and how are you going to avoid the obvious trap where your botnet is spoofed into attacking
another branch of the militaries network?
Big hint: It's a bad idea because you (for sure) won't have 100% intel on your allies computer resources...
Is it even a military thing? I thought that's what you had the NSA for...
Same here. Slackware 3.0 was the first linux I installed. (OK, I'll admit I've used Multics, Idris,
Interactive IX/386 etc.. and ported big apps to the last one of those). Looked at 11.0 and was *delighted* to see that it isn't bloaty. If I wasn't playing with the newest Debian right now I'd use it.
It isn't a joke to say that anyone who knows Slackware well *really* knows Linux...
Andy
Back in the early 80's I was working in Bristol UK for TDI (who were the UCSD p-system licensees) porting it to various machines...
Well, we had one customer who wanted a VAX p-system so we trotted off to INMOS's office and sat around in the computer room. (VAX 11/780 I think). At the time they were running Transputer simulations on the machine so the VAX p-system took er... about 30 *minutes* to start. Just for comparison an Apple ][ running IV.x would take less than a minute. Almost an hour to make a tape. (About 15 users running emulation I think).
Fond memories of the transputer. Almost bought a kit to play with it...
Andy
So of what use exactly is the US Dept. of Homeland Security? This really *is* terrorism in the sense
that it hits at the principles on which the internet infrastructure works...
If this is being run like the hacking laptops thing recently, then what's the big deal? So long as the vulnerabilities are only disclosed to *all* AV vendors in private afterwards...
The AV vendors who are complaining are more afraid of *other* vendors than xploits... If anything found here goes to all then it levels the playing field open source style...
Some more digging and here in mangled form is what i've dug up...
The IIS thread in the submitters post mentions that the site nihaorr1.com was registered 11 april. Interestingly, doing some spelunking with google for mangled script injection turned up refs to 414151.com and a script "fjp.js". That led me to a thread here from 11th April which mentions aspder.com .
Hmm. There's a pattern here I think.
The real puzzle for me is *why* they haven't fixed the overwrite (unless it's a deliberate way of slowing growth).
... if you've got Spybot-SD installed then your local hosts file maps shareaza.com along with many other junk sites to 127.0.0.1. (For a moment I thought they'd been slashdotted (grins)).
Does Microsoft utilize any of those freely available options?
Nope, and not even (cough) Silverlight (cough). So, these are the cream
of the cream of the marketroids - they don't even *know* about that dog food...
Hopefully, they'll open source the full version (with in box usb). I'd *love* to be able to
sandbox xp (with webcam support)
cheaply on linux. I sometimes baby sit a friends internet cafe over here (Athens, Greece) and most of my friends customers just use yahoo msgr as a video phone to the phillipines, sri lanka, egypt etc.
Read that as tech illiterate
i.e. "how do i switch on this machine?" so changing msgr or OS isn't so easy.
Despite the "year of linux on washing machines" fandom I still can't switch them
from windows to linux. The program formerly known as GAIM isn't an option...
Heard about the acquisition yesterday and kicked the tires. So, for anyone thinking of
playing with VirtualBox - a quick summary. Yes, it's nice - the UI is prettier than MS's
offering . Much more flexible options for mounting devices, shared folders etc.
It's simple to use, but seems a lot slower for I/O etc. No guest additions for
systems before win2k though (someone scratch that itch on the open source edition plz:-) ).
Emulated video seems to be a plain vanilla VGA but isn't a known card so old systems
like win98se end up 16 color 640x480 ).
Can use pre-existing VMWare HD's. Emulates AC97 for audio, so perhaps not as useful
as DosBox,VPC 2004,7 for old games:-(
A quick prayer to Sun though - if you're not going to open source completely the full version please at least open it community style (like OpenOffice.ORG).
If you do that, the chances are that the
vast Mongolian Hordes (R) of Linux hackers will crawl all over it and turn it into a real killer app.
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Didn't read all the posts so far but most folks seem to have forgotten Python's inbuilt "dictionary" type and pickling. If it's a fairly small DB then that (without even Sqlite etc..) would do the job. My bet would be try the inbuilt dictionary and if your data needs get too large (or queries too complex or ad hoc) use sqlite.
Andy
Right now the only thing that (was, is?) giving me grief on RC1 is the blasted urlclassifier bug which thrashes the hell out of the hard disk (but that seems to be better now I've had RC1 a few days).
Andy
How many other companies have software specifically designed to remove their *own* product? See SymNRT. Link to Symantec site is at the bottom.
Andy
Andy
Andy
A heck of a lot of us live in countries where the native language isn't English. I'm English from the UK, but living 20 years over here in Greece (Europe).
Most of the laptop vendors ship *only* the local native language version of (mostly) Windows Vista. If you're really lucky then you might see the English version. I spend a lot of time "cleaning" bloody Greek Vista *off* new Acers, HP notebooks and replacing it with English XP. You see - here in Athens (Greece if you forgot) we have lots and lots of people from all over the world (who don't want a Greek system but got stuck with it when they bought their nice new shiny whatever).
I have the pleasure of babysitting a friends internet cafe (on sundays it's more like Manilla than Athens because that's the day the girls from the Phillipines get their day off - eat yer heart out basement dwellers (grins)).
Some of this nonsense wouldn't be needed if Vista shipped MUI out of the tin . (Curiously though the MUI version of XP seems to be the norm amongst my friends from the arab world).
If a machine ships with what is essentially a "useless" system, then you should be able to refuse the EULA and get a refund. What i'd really like to see is some EU wide ruling as to the *size* of that refund so that consumers would be aware of their rights . Fitness for use etc. is an issue.
Andy.
(I just noticed the Waldo story reference has something which prefigures Feynmann's "Plenty of Room at the Bottom" . Wonder if he got that idea from Heinlein?
Andy
Rather than running around a particle accelerator, see who can send their web server to china first... Andy
AVG Free 8.0 (free.grisoft.com) or AVG free antirootkit if they are using 7.5 free.
Hint: AVG 8 *removes* their old free antirootkit.
For techie users grab the sysinternals toolkit from majorgeeks etc. (Rootkit revealer). For real techies a copy of "Rootkit Unhooker LE" (rku.nm.ru) but (like Hijack This) hide this one from non techie users so they don't fiddle with it ...
(oh and beware some versions of daemon tools which use rootkit like functionality to hide their virtual cd driver).
Andy
(Haven't checked it so not quite certain what it is :-/ ).
Andy
(plus of course Dr.Who, Star Trek, the Apollo Programme and Sci-Fi friendly public libraries).
Talking about the UK. Wonder what experiences are in other countries...
Truth is though, that any kid with an interest in science can easily end up being the dunce of the class out of sheer boredom.
(I know, I came *last* in my 1st year of secondary edu at physics). Weird really because I got a distinction at S level physics, and went off and did a BSc in chemistry at Bristol . (Never used it though, ended up playing with computers...).
Oh, and even though Universities *hated* it the Nuffield Science project was pretty neat...
Andy.
Big hint: It's a bad idea because you (for sure) won't have 100% intel on your allies computer resources ...
Is it even a military thing? I thought that's what you had the NSA for...
Andy.
Andy.
Same here. Slackware 3.0 was the first linux I installed. (OK, I'll admit I've used Multics, Idris, Interactive IX/386 etc.. and ported big apps to the last one of those). Looked at 11.0 and was *delighted* to see that it isn't bloaty. If I wasn't playing with the newest Debian right now I'd use it. It isn't a joke to say that anyone who knows Slackware well *really* knows Linux... Andy
Back in the early 80's I was working in Bristol UK for TDI (who were the UCSD p-system licensees) porting it to various machines... Well, we had one customer who wanted a VAX p-system so we trotted off to INMOS's office and sat around in the computer room. (VAX 11/780 I think). At the time they were running Transputer simulations on the machine so the VAX p-system took er... about 30 *minutes* to start. Just for comparison an Apple ][ running IV.x would take less than a minute. Almost an hour to make a tape. (About 15 users running emulation I think). Fond memories of the transputer. Almost bought a kit to play with it... Andy
Andy
The AV vendors who are complaining are more afraid of *other* vendors than xploits... If anything found here goes to all then it levels the playing field open source style...
Andy
The real puzzle for me is *why* they haven't fixed the overwrite (unless it's a deliberate way of slowing growth).
Andy
Interestingly (and I've been looking at this attack all day) it seems to overwrite itself in the middle.
Andy
Andy
On a more serious note though one wonders how long before they flip completely and emulate Aum Shinrikyo or Jim Jones...
FBI etc keep a *close* eye on them.
Andy
Andy
... But it isn't just one good game studio - Take Two own Firaxis, so start screaming right now...
Nope, and not even (cough) Silverlight (cough). So, these are the cream of the cream of the marketroids - they don't even *know* about that dog food...
cheaply on linux. I sometimes baby sit a friends internet cafe over here (Athens, Greece) and most of my friends customers just use yahoo msgr as a video phone to the phillipines, sri lanka, egypt etc.
Read that as tech illiterate i.e. "how do i switch on this machine?" so changing msgr or OS isn't so easy. Despite the "year of linux on washing machines" fandom I still can't switch them from windows to linux. The program formerly known as GAIM isn't an option...
Heard about the acquisition yesterday and kicked the tires. So, for anyone thinking of playing with VirtualBox - a quick summary. Yes, it's nice - the UI is prettier than MS's offering . Much more flexible options for mounting devices, shared folders etc.
It's simple to use, but seems a lot slower for I/O etc. No guest additions for systems before win2k though (someone scratch that itch on the open source edition plz :-) ).
Emulated video seems to be a plain vanilla VGA but isn't a known card so old systems like win98se end up 16 color 640x480 ). Can use pre-existing VMWare HD's. Emulates AC97 for audio, so perhaps not as useful as DosBox ,VPC 2004,7 for old games :-(
A quick prayer to Sun though - if you're not going to open source completely the full version please at least open it community style (like OpenOffice.ORG).
If you do that, the chances are that the vast Mongolian Hordes (R) of Linux hackers will crawl all over it and turn it into a real killer app.
Andy.