We never hear the sound of fingernails on a blackboard, anyway. Every school in the area has whiteboards (non-interactive ones, unfortunately) nowadays. The one interactive whiteboard I've seen in my school has never been used for anything.
Speaking as a 14-year-old, Microsoft have not only gone off the deep end, but have made the deep end deeper.
It's just a shame almost everybody else in my year thinks MS can do no wrong, and wouldn't know Tux if he bit them on the nose.
Unplug the hard drive, and dump it into a specially-configured "disinfectant" computer. Make sure it has up-to-date malware scanners - the four mentioned earlier should do the trick - and then scan it a lot. That should help get rid of some that loads on bootup. Then you might have to go in by hand to get rid of the rest, but it should get you started.
Apparently, usernames are design flaws:
"The login screen uses the term "username"."
As is rebooting the computer:
"The login screen uses the term "reboot". (My shoes are fine as they are, thanks.)"
In 20 years, will you you be able to say: I remember what I was doing when I first read on slashdot about the first transistor to break teh 600GHz barrier?
"Spiegel: Is this freely available operating system [Linux] a threat to you?
Gates: No, a competitor. That is all."
I think theres one way to sum that up: Arrogance.
Earlier in the article, Gates talks about sweeping statements in a derisive way, then makes one of his own. Would Microsoft spend so much time spreading FUD if Linux was not a threat?
HIV is the variation of SIV that jumped to humans, SIV standing for Simian immunodeficiency virus.
I think the two viruses are closely linked enough for it to still affect monkeys.
For those who didn't read the article, the reason why Microsoft should fear bandwidth is that control of the computers will be turned over from the home user to a remote company.
That is a good enough reason in its own right, but there are other reasons for MS to fear high-bandwidth connections. People stuck on a dial-up are less likely to be able to download Linux and other OSS.
The propogation(sp?) rate of viruses, worms and other malware greatly increases because always-on connections spread them constantly - and quicker, which helps to highlight weaknesses in Windows.
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We never hear the sound of fingernails on a blackboard, anyway. Every school in the area has whiteboards (non-interactive ones, unfortunately) nowadays. The one interactive whiteboard I've seen in my school has never been used for anything.
Speaking as a 14-year-old, Microsoft have not only gone off the deep end, but have made the deep end deeper. It's just a shame almost everybody else in my year thinks MS can do no wrong, and wouldn't know Tux if he bit them on the nose.
Unplug the hard drive, and dump it into a specially-configured "disinfectant" computer. Make sure it has up-to-date malware scanners - the four mentioned earlier should do the trick - and then scan it a lot. That should help get rid of some that loads on bootup. Then you might have to go in by hand to get rid of the rest, but it should get you started.
Apparently, usernames are design flaws: "The login screen uses the term "username"." As is rebooting the computer: "The login screen uses the term "reboot". (My shoes are fine as they are, thanks.)"
In 20 years, will you you be able to say: I remember what I was doing when I first read on slashdot about the first transistor to break teh 600GHz barrier?
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Yes. I was reading
Thankyou! A computer hacker is just a wizardly programmer. The people the media call hackers are normally crackers or (worse) script-kiddies.
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/tools/6b3b/ Forgot the link. Oops.
A 256 Swiss Memory USB! Now that is a kickass gadget.
http://humorix.org/articles/2005/04/slashdot-edito rs/
Nah. I don't think they're supposed to edit.
"Spiegel: Is this freely available operating system [Linux] a threat to you? Gates: No, a competitor. That is all." I think theres one way to sum that up: Arrogance. Earlier in the article, Gates talks about sweeping statements in a derisive way, then makes one of his own. Would Microsoft spend so much time spreading FUD if Linux was not a threat?
HIV is the variation of SIV that jumped to humans, SIV standing for Simian immunodeficiency virus. I think the two viruses are closely linked enough for it to still affect monkeys.
For those who didn't read the article, the reason why Microsoft should fear bandwidth is that control of the computers will be turned over from the home user to a remote company. That is a good enough reason in its own right, but there are other reasons for MS to fear high-bandwidth connections. People stuck on a dial-up are less likely to be able to download Linux and other OSS. The propogation(sp?) rate of viruses, worms and other malware greatly increases because always-on connections spread them constantly - and quicker, which helps to highlight weaknesses in Windows.
I'm sorry, I thought SCO held the patent on worthless patents.