(That said, his script for Alien 3 would probably have been better than the abortion that Fincher foisted off on us.)
Remember that Fincher was like, the 3rd director to take over filming, and he had to work with what he was given. Personally I don't think he did that bad a job. Before you write off Alien3 completely, you should watch the Special Edition, it's a much more complete film.
And anyway if Fincher hadn't have got the opportunity to direct Alien3, we'd have never had Seven (at least not as good).
Also, users that are savvy enough to run their own server typically don't have all the bullshit Windows problems, so they are constantly calling with some malware/shitware related problem.
You were doing so well... until you threw in a random anti-windows statement.
I run my own web servers at home, on my network, with forwarding from my internet facing router. These servers run Windows 2003. These servers do a variety of public and private web-serving. For a while I even ran a MUD server on another Windows box.
For those that don't have access to a copy of Windows 2003 Server, Windows XP's IIS Web Server implementation is more than adequate to serve several low traffic sites (including those with dyanamic content)
So, I resent your inferred statement that to have a workable at-home server solution it has to be be on a non-windows platform.
Modern graphics cards need super beefy machines under them to perform at their full potential. Therefore sequeezing the latest NIVDIA card (that will cost hundreds of pounds/dollars) into a 3-4 year old machine will only result in dissapointment, tears, and a 5-6 average fps.
Agreed, in this day and age of revisionist historians employed by our governments around the globe, who's sole job it is to re-write history in the favour of the encumbant politicions, it is VERY important that what actually happened during a pivotal event is recorded and re-told correctly. If we brush over the facts, how will we know how to stop it happening again ?
One of the positive things about the Internet, is it's ability to give everyone a voice. I still have enough faith in the world, that those who what to do the right thing easily outnumber those that dont. Concepts like Wikipedia help to preserve the real facts of events because so many people have a vested interest in keeping the articles they contribute to error-free. Information is power, and the governments of the world don't understand that they no longer control the information flow.
When something tragic happens the independent blogporters outnumber the employed reporters 10 to 1, agreggating those blogports will yield a more accurate and complete dissection of the event than any commercial newsfeeds can or want to provide.
Reading through the Myths in the article I was astounded under Myth #2 to discover that TV companies dubbed in an explosion sound! We can no longer trust what the news shows us.
Um, in my work lifts, no-one bothers to press a floor button if it's already lit, so i'm guessing your example has lifts with floor buttons that don't light up ?
Inherently, people are lazy, and wont lean over to press a button if it's already been pressed. (unless of course it's the button in the lobby that calls the lift, where as everyone knows there is a little counter that speeds the lift up the more you press it...)
(trust me, my parents are the proud owners of a celeron *shudders*).
Why shudder?
A 'Celeron D' is perfectly adequate for 90% of home users usage, and lets not forget that the mobile CPU in the Centrino package is a 'Celeron M' - which in its self is becoming quite popular as a low-heat/low-wattage chip.
Unless of course you are referring to the older hamstrung Celerons, then yeah, they were crap.
In Rememerence of the Daleks (i think) way back in the 1980s with Sylvester McCoy as The Doctor, there is a basement scene where a Dalek tackles stairs, and whereas it's no-where near as adept at the solution as we see in 2005s 'Dalek', the whole stairs joke was kinda put to bed then.
My daughter is 8. She's watched all the new Dr Whos with me. The Empty Child DID scare her shitless. It was her defining 'Dr Who Moment', a moment that should exist in everyones childhood memories.:)
Well a little bit of playing around on my system (having never tried to conceal an EXE for malicious purposes before), and it seems that if you take MyProgram.exe and rename it to MyProgram.jpg.pif, Windows just runs it as if it was an EXE. The trouble is, like.LNK files,.PIF extensions are permenantly hidden regardless of whether you have 'show extensions for known file types' ticked or not, consequently, MyProgram.jpg.pif appears as MyProgram.jpg, and theres nothing a user can do about it. By manipulating the icon inside MyProgram so it looks like the standard jpeg icon, you can totally fool the user.
Trying to convert a non-pif PIF file into a LNK just would not work, and an error box would be thrown up ('Not a real shortcut file, do you want to delete it?')
On 2000,XP and 2003 DOS apps settings are now held in two places, the registry and inside the.LNK file (the actual shortcut).
However, PIFs are still supported execution-wise in the OS to maintain backwards compatiblity - something that *shuold* have been eradicated/managed-out with XPs SP2 and all it's 'security' updates - something along the lines of:
'You've have tried to run the file CelineDionNaked.jpg.pif, this may not be a legitimate application. Choose Run to run the file, Delete to delete the file, and Update to convert to a Windows XP icon.'
No, The US should not be more involved in ICANN, but whom ever 'controls' the handing out of TLDs should be more vigilent about who gets them.
Picture this:
1. ICANN say to registrars 'anyone can register.com's' 2. AnalHorseLovingWhores.com registers 'HerLittlePony.com' 3. Little Mary (aged 8) googles for her favorite toy, and clicks on HerLittlePony.com 4. Little Mary (aged 8) is mentally scared for life, and can no longer look her Hasbro 'Starbrite' MyLittlePony in the eye. 5. Marys Mother sues the registrar as they were the one who 'served up' access to HerLittlePony.com
There needs to be an organisation that is responsible for the correct usage of the TLDs. We already have restrictions on who gets a.gov or a.edu; Trying to clean up.com is a sensible next step.
'Pr0n Site' is easy to define. Is it a pay-membership site or an amateur site, that has loads of images and/or videos for titilation or sexual gratification of the viewer. If the answer to that is 'yes' then they move over to the.xxx domain.
That said, I agree with the reply to my previous post, where the poster suggested that the.com becomes a redirect (with no URL cloaking) to the new.xxx domain.
Anyway this is all moot. ICANN is in the pocket of the US Government, therefore this idea will never be realised. Ironically the US Government have an irrational hate of pornography, yet seem to abhor any sensible idea to reign it in.
After say, two years, why not just refuse to resolve pr0n.com sites? The two years gives the pr0n sites plenty of time to migrate over.
The.xxx TLD should not be about making money - The pr0n sites should be able to 'swap out' their.com domains for a.xxx for free (with the two year transfer time). Of course new registrations should pay in the usual way.
How do we get a list of pr0n sites ? Well there are plenty of companies that already track this information (corporate Web-filter providers for example), so that's already a good starting point.
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(That said, his script for Alien 3 would probably have been better than the abortion that Fincher foisted off on us.)
Remember that Fincher was like, the 3rd director to take over filming, and he had to work with what he was given. Personally I don't think he did that bad a job. Before you write off Alien3 completely, you should watch the Special Edition, it's a much more complete film.
And anyway if Fincher hadn't have got the opportunity to direct Alien3, we'd have never had Seven (at least not as good).
-Jar.
Also, users that are savvy enough to run their own server typically don't have all the bullshit Windows problems, so they are constantly calling with some malware/shitware related problem.
You were doing so well... until you threw in a random anti-windows statement.
I run my own web servers at home, on my network, with forwarding from my internet facing router. These servers run Windows 2003. These servers do a variety of public and private web-serving. For a while I even ran a MUD server on another Windows box.
For those that don't have access to a copy of Windows 2003 Server, Windows XP's IIS Web Server implementation is more than adequate to serve several low traffic sites (including those with dyanamic content)
So, I resent your inferred statement that to have a workable at-home server solution it has to be be on a non-windows platform.
-Jar.
Modern graphics cards need super beefy machines under them to perform at their full potential. Therefore sequeezing the latest NIVDIA card (that will cost hundreds of pounds/dollars) into a 3-4 year old machine will only result in dissapointment, tears, and a 5-6 average fps.
-Jar.
This guy isn't trolling, can someone please mod him at the very least off topic?
:(
This is a classic case of being modded out of context
-Jar.
Agreed, in this day and age of revisionist historians employed by our governments around the globe, who's sole job it is to re-write history in the favour of the encumbant politicions, it is VERY important that what actually happened during a pivotal event is recorded and re-told correctly. If we brush over the facts, how will we know how to stop it happening again ?
One of the positive things about the Internet, is it's ability to give everyone a voice. I still have enough faith in the world, that those who what to do the right thing easily outnumber those that dont. Concepts like Wikipedia help to preserve the real facts of events because so many people have a vested interest in keeping the articles they contribute to error-free. Information is power, and the governments of the world don't understand that they no longer control the information flow.
When something tragic happens the independent blogporters outnumber the employed reporters 10 to 1, agreggating those blogports will yield a more accurate and complete dissection of the event than any commercial newsfeeds can or want to provide.
Reading through the Myths in the article I was astounded under Myth #2 to discover that TV companies dubbed in an explosion sound! We can no longer trust what the news shows us.
Paranoid, me? Never.
-Jar.
Oooh, I didn't know about STO, but now I do! Thanks for that!
-Jar.
I don't think the parent is flamebaiting, I think the parent is trying to be sarcastic...
-Jar.
Um, in my work lifts, no-one bothers to press a floor button if it's already lit, so i'm guessing your example has lifts with floor buttons that don't light up ?
Inherently, people are lazy, and wont lean over to press a button if it's already been pressed. (unless of course it's the button in the lobby that calls the lift, where as everyone knows there is a little counter that speeds the lift up the more you press it...)
-Jar.
Are there any cache sites that are on port 80? My work proxy (and probably most other peoples) blocks web traffic that isn't on 80 or 443.
Thanks,
-Jar.
No need to insult me, but, yeah I got that wrong.
I have several Centrino laptops, so why on earth I said Celeron M is in Centrino I have no idea. (Both begin with C?)
My bad.
-Jar.
(trust me, my parents are the proud owners of a celeron *shudders*).
Why shudder?
A 'Celeron D' is perfectly adequate for 90% of home users usage, and lets not forget that the mobile CPU in the Centrino package is a 'Celeron M' - which in its self is becoming quite popular as a low-heat/low-wattage chip.
Unless of course you are referring to the older hamstrung Celerons, then yeah, they were crap.
-Jar.
Ok total geek moment.
In Rememerence of the Daleks (i think) way back in the 1980s with Sylvester McCoy as The Doctor, there is a basement scene where a Dalek tackles stairs, and whereas it's no-where near as adept at the solution as we see in 2005s 'Dalek', the whole stairs joke was kinda put to bed then.
-Jar.
My daughter is 8. She's watched all the new Dr Whos with me. The Empty Child DID scare her shitless. It was her defining 'Dr Who Moment', a moment that should exist in everyones childhood memories. :)
-Jar.
ScuttleMonkey IS ... * * Beatles-Beatles ?
-Jar.
(Who is so happy now he can join in with the Beatles-Beatles thing)
Can someone link to/explain the Beatles-Beatles ref. please?
-Jar
Well a little bit of playing around on my system (having never tried to conceal an EXE for malicious purposes before), and it seems that if you take MyProgram.exe and rename it to MyProgram.jpg.pif, Windows just runs it as if it was an EXE. The trouble is, like .LNK files, .PIF extensions are permenantly hidden regardless of whether you have 'show extensions for known file types' ticked or not, consequently, MyProgram.jpg.pif appears as MyProgram.jpg, and theres nothing a user can do about it. By manipulating the icon inside MyProgram so it looks like the standard jpeg icon, you can totally fool the user.
Trying to convert a non-pif PIF file into a LNK just would not work, and an error box would be thrown up ('Not a real shortcut file, do you want to delete it?')
-Jar.
No, PIFs are now legacy.
.LNK file (the actual shortcut).
On 2000,XP and 2003 DOS apps settings are now held in two places, the registry and inside the
However, PIFs are still supported execution-wise in the OS to maintain backwards compatiblity - something that *shuold* have been eradicated/managed-out with XPs SP2 and all it's 'security' updates - something along the lines of:
'You've have tried to run the file CelineDionNaked.jpg.pif, this may not be a legitimate application. Choose Run to run the file, Delete to delete the file, and Update to convert to a Windows XP icon.'
-Jar.
There's a Theme Song?
/. question>
.torrent for it?
/. question>
<obligatory
Has anyone got the
</obligatory
-Jar.
Your description is totally flawed too. You missed "Mary clicks on the Yes I'm 18 button" and "Mary enters a valid credit card number".
Because of course, EVERY pr0n site has those options on their front page.
(That's sarcasm btw)
-Jar.
No, The US should not be more involved in ICANN, but whom ever 'controls' the handing out of TLDs should be more vigilent about who gets them.
.com's'
.gov or a .edu; Trying to clean up .com is a sensible next step.
Picture this:
1. ICANN say to registrars 'anyone can register
2. AnalHorseLovingWhores.com registers 'HerLittlePony.com'
3. Little Mary (aged 8) googles for her favorite toy, and clicks on HerLittlePony.com
4. Little Mary (aged 8) is mentally scared for life, and can no longer look her Hasbro 'Starbrite' MyLittlePony in the eye.
5. Marys Mother sues the registrar as they were the one who 'served up' access to HerLittlePony.com
There needs to be an organisation that is responsible for the correct usage of the TLDs. We already have restrictions on who gets a
-Jar.
'Pr0n Site' is easy to define. Is it a pay-membership site or an amateur site, that has loads of images and/or videos for titilation or sexual gratification of the viewer. If the answer to that is 'yes' then they move over to the .xxx domain.
.com becomes a redirect (with no URL cloaking) to the new .xxx domain.
That said, I agree with the reply to my previous post, where the poster suggested that the
Anyway this is all moot. ICANN is in the pocket of the US Government, therefore this idea will never be realised. Ironically the US Government have an irrational hate of pornography, yet seem to abhor any sensible idea to reign it in.
-Jar.
No, I said use the blacklists from the filter companies as a 'starting point'. No point re-inventing the wheel.
-Jar.
After say, two years, why not just refuse to resolve pr0n .com sites? The two years gives the pr0n sites plenty of time to migrate over.
.xxx TLD should not be about making money - The pr0n sites should be able to 'swap out' their .com domains for a .xxx for free (with the two year transfer time). Of course new registrations should pay in the usual way.
The
How do we get a list of pr0n sites ? Well there are plenty of companies that already track this information (corporate Web-filter providers for example), so that's already a good starting point.
Jus' my 2p.
-Jar.
Symantec AV 8.1 with latest virus defs. caught the exploit naming it 'Bloodhound' something or other, and calc.exe did NOT run.
-Jar.
When my alarm gets set- my home automation system shuts off the WAP.
Thats cute - care to elaborate on how your home automation system is setup ? is it custom hardware, or a pc with clever software, or both?
-Jar.