I have some friends that are ex military (USAF and US Army) that sent all their buddies that were still in and I can back up what you are saying, as nearly all of them wanted me to load games and apps on big flash drives. I had never heard of a "game stick' as they called it and it was explained to me that while there are PCs everywhere the connections are locked down and spotty so they just load games on the sticks and that way when they have down time they can "data dump" as they called it and unwind with some games.
Looking at the video in TFA I have to agree that it doesn't look really damaged so either a computer bug from those bazillion flash sticks brought it down or they had an engine malfunction and it autoglided itself to a landing. maybe its because i'm not a military guy but I was amazed that they all just walk around popping sticks in everywhere, that is the kind of crap i would have brought to a screeching halt when i was working corporate and i can't believe that the US military just lets them go around popping sticks. Hell with the kind of money we spend on the military they ought to just contract out to one of the OEMs to have a nice ruggedized AMD netbook handed out to each soldier and then epoxy all the USB ports on the work machines.
The sad and frankly seriously fucking scary part? Follow the money, think about THIS question: What do these countries such as Iraq and Libya have in common? Not terrorism as Iraq had told most of them to go fuck themselves (As Saddam had too much on his plate with Iran to want to get involved and old MoMo had been throwing Al Qaeda in prison which just FYI but no less than THREE of the guys on the new Libyan ruling council are Al Qaeda) and its not religion as Iraq was controlled by Baathist and MoMo was more communist than anything so what is the connection between them and Iran and Syria?
The Federal Reserve and the Petrodollar, that's what. As I said the "rebels' rushed to make a central bank and quickly cut deals with the fed, Saddam had threatened to go to the Euro, and did you know that nearly two thirds of the petrodollars countries like Saudi Arabia trade for their oil ends up deposited in the federal reserve bank of NYC? And of course moMo had threatened to only accept gold for his oil as he feared the currency crisis, then suddenly he has an "Arab spring" moment, only its Al Qaeda and Qatar soldiers as the 'poor freedom fighters" backed up by billions in weapons from NATO.
I used to laugh at the whole "bankster" thing but frankly after paying attention to what has been going the last few years honestly i think that is EXACTLY what is happening, the banks are acting like the mob and anybody that threatens their operations get stomped on. on the one hand you have AIPAC throwing enough money into the ring that BOTH the dem AND rep POTUS candidate went to go kiss the ring at AIPAC before their campaigns, you have the fed making money hand over fist both on the petrodollars going out and then AGAIN on those same petrodollars when they come back, and then finally you have groups like Halliburton and Goldman Sachs tied into both AIPAC and the fed along with pretty much all major positions in the US gov making sure things run smoothly.
Frankly i don't blame iran for wanting the bomb, if I was them I'd be hustling like mad to get one just to save my own ass. it has been made VERY clear these last 20 or so years that if you fuck with the money flow, especially petro and narco dollars you ARE gonna get stomped on. there are too many of the 1% making frankly insane amounts of money off of these ops to let any third world country do anything to mess with the flow. look at which countries are left alone, what do they have in common? The bomb. its the only thing that lets you stand up to the banksters and money men anymore without getting squashed like a bug. if iran doesn't get the bomb they better kiss the ring and jump through the banksters hoops otherwise I smell 'regime change' in their future. Scary as hell that so few can kill so many just to maintain their profits.
What those links describe is basically a "who watches the watchers?" problem and i think i've got that licked friend, i have the firewall set up so that me and ONLY me has access to the DNS and the server itself uses 3 different root zones and caches the links I use ONLY if they match. so basically to poison the DNS well they'd have to poison 3 root zones at the same time and if they do that? Well pretty much ALL DNS is royally fucked and nobody is gonna be going anywhere.
But having lots of clients out in the sticks you quickly learn DNS is one of those things if you just don't do it yourself it just doesn't get done right. I usually have to set up 3 different DNS zones for clients just to deal with the shitty TTL and dropped packets at some of these SMBs, when all you have is AT&T in the area you learn to deal with such things. If I had the time to write custom HOSTS files for each client? hell it would probably work great, but I don't buddy, my ass is so damned swamped I'm a good week behind and that is with me getting MAYBE 6 hours worth of sleep a day, now I just got a call that my GF coming back with her BFF from visiting their old HS buddies hit a patch of ice and rolled the car so as soon as i can get these two "gotta have it today ZOMFG!" business laptops picked up I gotta shut down and head out for a 5 hour trip to her relatives. Thank God all she got was bruised and banged up but according to her dad the thing rolled 5 times down an embankment and could have been MUCH worse.
So my next post will likely be from her bedside as I wait on her to wake up from the pain meds. be careful out there APK as it really only takes a second for your life to completely change bro, if she wouldn't have been wearing her seat belt I could be leaving to go to her funeral right now. be safe friend, life can throw some hellish curves.
Well again it also comes down to power, as those older CPUs didn't have things like cool & quiet to drop the CPU when not doing any work so they ran full blast and if you were to use one how much longer would each task you have for it take VS a newer PC?
While i'm one of those folks that happily refurb older PCs for poor folks there is a minimum to be useful anymore. i mean seriously, who'd WANT to surf on a 733MHz P3? who'd want to do their work on it? IIRC it is generally better to use power to do a single job quickly and then drop to low power than it is to take much longer to do a job while drawing a steady stream, even if that stream is lower.
In the end while i'm a big fan of 'if it ain't broke' like with my example of the CRTs where taking those machines that practically run 24/7 and replacing the power hogging CRT with nice LCDs we significantly lowered our energy consumption sometimes it is better to go for the new tech where the power isn't being wasted. I mean which one do YOU think would suck more power when i was stuck at the doc for 5 hours yesterday, my old P4 mobile or my new Zacate?
I bet if one crunched the numbers the amount of energy used to generate the power ends up being more than the cost of making the new device, especially if the old device is recycled. Just look at the CRT VS LCD, where for a single day of 24/7 usage the LCDs use 1680w while the CRT uses 6480! That's a pretty big difference in draw there.
I personally think the whole thing with Iran stinks and smells like a CIA plant. look at Libya one of the first things the "rebels' did was set up a central bank, what kind of fucking rag tag bunch of freedom fighters rush to set up a central fricking bank before the firing is even halfway over? Not to mention watch the video of MoMo getting killed and nearly all his captors are wearing Qatar military uniforms and hey, guess who has a large base in Qatar? That would be the US military. Now there are 20,000 plus Russian stinger knockoff that old MoMo had bought in the hands of who the fuck knows, all because old MoMo threatened to sell his oil for gold instead of supporting the petro-dollar. Not saying MoMo wasn't a douche, but the whole thing smells like astroturf by the CIA using the Arab Springs as cover.
Sadly the USA has been the puppet of AIPAC and Israel for many years now thanks to what I call the "Jesus won't come back! Come back Jesus come back!" brigade that wouldn't care if we had to slaughter every brown person in the middle east to make Israel happy as long as there is a Jew in Zion.
So i'm sure we'll get lots more "teh evil Iranians want to kill us ZOMFG!" propaganda in the coming months, just as we saw that to this day something like 40% of US citizens think we attacked Iraq because of 9/11. The Jews don't like the idea of anyone else in the region having the bomb even thought they have dozens if not hundreds of them, but frankly after Iraq any country in that area that didn't kiss the US bankster and military ass would be nuts NOT to want a bomb, as its the only way to keep the warmongers in the halls of power from running you down.
final prediction? Now that we are pulling out if Iraq so we have the troops it'll be a toss up as to whether we go after Iran or Syria, neither country should be feeling too safe right now. Sadly the MSM has gotten so damned good at propaganda the POTUS could come out and say Iran caused 9/11 and many of the people would buy it without a second thought.
Don't feel bad friend, somewhere in one of my boxes in storage is a 64Mb CF card with card reader that I used as a thumbstick and paid close to $100 too. I thought when I got it "Wow these are DOZENS of floppies worth of data, how will i ever use it all up?" and now I carry around a 16Gb I paid $14 for on sale and have 4gb which is bigger than the first 5 HDDs i had on my keyring that was given to me free by a guy that basically uses the things like calling cards!
So don't feel bad friend, we're just antiques from when 8 tracks were playable in any car and dinosaurs roamed the earth. you want to feel old my oldest boy is in his second year of college and he has NEVER had an 8-track, cassette, or LP, ever! And he talks about how old he must be getting since his first PC ran windows 98 and had a Voodoo card!
And perfect is the enemy of good. Who cares if the picture is a little "better" which frankly is subjective, when you are talking about having more than FIVE TIMES the amount of power used? the new LCDs i got the boys are energy star and take a MAX of 35w each and that is with built in speakers. The 19 inch CRTs they replaced i looked up on the manufacturer's website and they were using 135w EACH.!
70 watts VS 270, not really a hard choice to make friend and BTW you know what the boys said about their new monitors? 'The picture is so bright, everything looks so crisp and sharp, I LOVE IT!" Sure if you are making your living running Photoshop i can see going IPS or keeping the CRT but frankly the new TFT LCDs are more than "good enough" for the vast majority or they wouldn't be selling like hotcakes now would they?
Personally i think the Hanns_G monitors look DAMNED good to my eyes, and if anybody wants one they have them for just $10 more than i paid so you can pick them up for $89 shipped. If anybody wants to replace a power sucking CRT I highly recommend, the speakers aren't the bassiest of things but with the kids regular speakers moved to the back it does make a nice set of front speakers.
But would they be better in the long run or worse? My CRT monitors worked just fine, just got finished replacing the last 2 in the family with 20 inch LCDs i got cheap on cyber Monday. while i will give those CRTs away rather than have them end up in the dump the amount of power they sucked was just unreal compared to the energy star LCDs i picked up, i could have easily run 5 monitors in the place of a single one of those CRTs and still had power left over.
The problem with making things last is the flip side and that's the fact that each generation the power usage gets MUCH better. My P4 mobile laptop is still running to this day with a customer but at its best it would suck a battery dry in 2 hours flat and cranked out the heat, while my new Zacate netbook runs 6 hours plus on a battery a hell of a lot smaller and plugged in it takes a max 18w under heavy load, most of the time less than 8 I'd say.
so do we REALLY want people keeping the old tech and draining that much more power, or is it better to have them get something new that uses much less? i'm not an economics guy so i don't know, i just know that the electric bill at my family's house dropped like mad without having those CRTs constantly pulling juice. the bill went down so much that they actually sent someone out to check the meter to make sure we hadn't figured out a way to scam them!
Oh Hai Swarley! I have been using ninite for nearly two years now and can tell you with 100% certainty that there is NO crapware, toolbars, or any BS, just the program itself installed with sane defaults and dropped onto your desktop just as pretty as you please.
But if you want to give it a spin, just to see for yourself, pick one of the easy single apps you don't have now, lets say Audacity or VLC. Run it, then check your machine, you'll find its clean. They make their money by hosting custom windows repos for corps and by selling an autoupdater service that will monitor and keep all the machines on an SMB updated for $10 a year per machine. Nice service BTW, i've had a couple of customers buy into it.
The regular ninite page though is 100% free and its clean as a whistle. just pick what you want, click the button, and away you go! it really is THAT simple friend, enjoy!
Hey Pete, i hope you enjoyed my laughing at old crazy oak, I did so enjoy farting in his general direction. The fact that he thinks you and i are the same person and hiding in some warroom in Redmond plotting the fall of FOSS is funny as shit, hell he's funnier than twitter! especially since you and I agreed to disagree (and i STILL think a recursive DNS is the better way, but different strokes) and are as different as a jet and a sub.
Anyway i'm sorry i couldn't get nastier on him but.....i'm just so damned happy! its hard to work up a good rant when you got a great little GF whose favorite pasttime is yours truly, made enough scratch in just the past week that after getting everybody's Xmas I not only got enough to surprise my sweetie with a kick ass custom quad core (built by yours truly of course) when she comes back from her family visit but I had Santa bring me a brand new Thuban and a kick ass Zalman supercooler so I should be able to hit crazy speeds!
so in conclusion just let me say Pete don't forget to enjoy the holiday, laugh at the dumbasses while enjoying all the bounty you have. and let me end with my new happy Xmas song! "We wish you a Merry Thuban, We wish you a Merry Thuban, We Wish you a Merry Thuban and a happy six corrrreeee!" yeee haaa!
Hi Oaktree, forget to take your meda AGAIN huh? well you know they say they won't work unless you take them every day! I hate to break the news to ya pal but I wouldn't know how to code in Delphi if you stuck a gun to my head, the last time i personally coded was when words like PEEK and POKE were still considered cutting edge programming skills.
Oh and I think its fricking hilarious that you think APK is me considering me and him still can't agree on shit as i STILL think a recursive DNS server is a better route than a HOSTS file. But once in a while he points me to one of your posts for shits and giggle so I can laugh and fart in your general direction.
Give it up dude, your OS is a corpse, its disco stu, its going on the cart whether it feels happy or not. hell even Asus that started the netbook craze with Linux won't even touch the shit anymore and you know why? because it sucks, its unstable, linus keeps going Goatse on the kernel, and finally too many frankly batshit users like you will take a cock slapping from the developers and come back and ask for more. if it were a company it would have been chapter 11 by now. MSFT sells more copies in a week than you get users in a year just because THEY LISTEN TO THE CUSTOMER while your kind jerks off to a bash script and wonders why the public can't see how "leet" a 70s terminal throwback is. Give it the fuck up and stay down, it isn't even enjoyable kicking you around anymore. Its like kicking a retard, it isn't even entertainment.
Now you be sure to rush to log out so you can write 'die you fat fucker" again like i give a flying fuck. I'm up to my ass in work, so much so that my GF who is coming down to rock my world (ever had one? Sex is great, especially with a girl that loves to play...of course you wouldn't know about that) is gonna be surprised with a brand new custom built quad by yours truly, sweet little machine if i do say so myself, the kids got more games than they can count (ever try them...no that's right all you have is tux racer...sorry) and even after buying everyone a nice Xmas this PC guy had enough left to talk Santa into bringing him a Thuban.
So please take your meds, eat some fiber, quit using dead OSes, and try getting laid occasionally. And allow me to say my crazy paranoid loser friend "I wish you a merry Thuban and a happy six coreee!". Man its so nice to be me, i just wake up in the morning smiling, of course the money and great sex might have something to do with it, but who am i to complain? But if you want to know who APK is he sure as hell ain't me, look up his history on CNet as he lurked there for years. From what i understand he's a programmer that has made a decent amount on the shareware, whereas the closest i got to writing a program with a GUI was a VB frontend to a DB back 10 years ago. I wouldn't exactly call that programming and I sure as hell didn't try selling it.
so guess again nutjob, who knows....maybe i'm in your area, maybe even on your street, do you know the guy behind you at the bank? might want to keep an eye on him, I'll be sure to smile at you to let you know its me...boo!
Sadly you are wrong, look at the AC below me, does he come up with something witty? maybe a good flame? nope its "Shut up troll" which actually points out EXACTLY what I was talking about, even our trolls are so fucking lazy now they just phone it in!
Hell I had one follow me around for a solid month last month, now with all the effort it took to scan every single article to find me SURELY he must have put some effort into his responses? Surely he must have really tore into me if he hated me enough to go to ALL THAT EFFORT? Nope all he wrote in every. single. post. was "Die you fat fucker". that's it, not even any variation, just that simple four word sentence that a real Slashdot troll would have taken as an insult to trolling. hell he didn't even try to hurt my feelings, he might as well have just typed 'dookie" and been done with it!.
That's just sad, that's what it is. I don't know if its OCD or video games or TV or chemicals in the food but frankly even douchebags have gotten so damned lazy i expect protests to have signs that read "Fill in insulting phrase' and leave it at that. Its a damned shame, no heart or soul, just phoning it in.
Call me paranoid but maybe some of the infected ones were lost on purpose? There are plenty of places to buy REALLY cheap USB sticks, especially if you get the smaller ones. IIRC there is a place selling the 256Mb sticks for something like 40c in bulk. If I wanted to spread malware to as many people as possible it sounds like an awful cheap way to do it, just leave sticks around the places where those that work at the place i ant to hack frequent, like say the subway they use at the time of the day they use it? Who cares if a couple get picked up by nobodies or end up in lost and found, they're cheap!
But the fact that they find so many whether lost intentionally or not really doesn't surprise me, hell I've lost some of my smaller sticks here and there. but of course i don't keep in data i give a crap about on them either, just drivers and flash tools for cleaning boxes. if someone was to find that 1gb stick i lost somewhere all they'll get is a bunch of freeware cleaners and the latest realtek drivers that were out at the time. Maybe the reason they weren't encrypted is like me many simply didn't have anything worth giving a shit about?
I wasn't talking about MS Office files, I was talking backwards compatibility. And nobody is saying PDF isn't a great format, its just Adobe has butchered the format by tacking on more and more bullshit like security features and crap that frankly should have NEVER been in the format. There are plenty of ways to securely encrypt and send a file that don't involve trying to shoehorn it into a format never designed for security.
But I think TFA proves my point, we get these Adobe attacks...what? a couple of times a month at least? and what is ALWAYS being attacked? the extra shit they bolted on so they can upsell Acrobat. I still say it would be better if Acrobat went SaaS or a yearly model like AV, then they wouldn't have to keep bolting crap onto PDF files just to sell new copies of Acrobat.
I know, isn't it just awful? Maybe they should call MSFT to get tips on mobile OSes nobody cares about. Of course its RIM, stupidity personified so it would be like the ultimate battle of the dumbasses if you put them and Ballmer's Folly against each other.
Lets all be honest for a moment shall we? RIM is dead, they are disco, they are going on the cart whether they feel happy or not. So the big question is this: Who picks over the corpse for the IP? While Google would be my first bet with Steve "I want to be like Apple damn it!" Ballmer in charge of MSFT they might try to pull another crazy yahoo bid for RIM out of their ass. any other takes you guys think?
Mind a suggest? I can tell you how to upgrade her hardware to something nice for around $100. get a nice cheap AMD board (cost at newegg...$29) and then go here and grab a Phenom. 4gb of DDR3 is $20, the CPU HSF another $10 for one that will cool a Phenom, no biggie.
As for PCs dying? i must have like the best luck on the planet then because besides the bit with the stolen cap formula i haven't see a PC dead from caps in ages. hell i have one that is over a decade old still in the field, it was handed down through 3 families until a gal that got it brought it to me and paid $50 to have me drop in a late model P4 with board and 1gb stick.
So honestly there isn't a reason why a PC can't last years and years especially if you DIY where you can buy quality parts. The reason you see these dead dells and HPs is because they skimp on EVERYTHING. They have shitty PSUs, fans, HSF, caps, anything they can screw to save a buck, as long as it'll last 3 minutes past warranty. meanwhile my PC is about to hit the 4 year mark and Santa is bringing me a Thuban (We wish you a merry Thuban and a happy six coreeee!) and from that one chip no less than FOUR people get upgraded, as my chip i have currently goes to my dad for his Phenom I Quad and his Quad goes to my girl as part of a nice new rig to replace her 5 year old box which will be going to her daughter. Oh make that FIVE people as the late model P4 her daughter has which she is switching for her mom's Pentium D will be going to her brother who has been using a late model P3 I had lying around in the shop as a netbox.
So you see? PCs are the gift that keeps on giving, they just get passed from hand to hand like how my boys are gaming on my hand me downs with a cheap HD4850 thrown in. BTW please don't just throw your wife's PC away, wipe it and put it on your local Freecycle. there are plenty of guys like me that refurb older models for folks that don't have one and while DDR 1 might be expensive for all you know somebody there has a box full of the stuff. Oh and if you want some DDR 1 RAM try your local mom and pop shop. We usually have plenty of the older sticks and will often cut you a deal.
Sorry about that friend and I'm glad i helped your mom but it has NOTHING to do with taking my meds and everything to do with a Linux loonie that followed me all over the net for over a month just so he could post as AC "die you fat fucker die". look up my posts from around a month ago, first he accused me of being APK, which i thought was funny because me and APK had a running argument for over a month and I STILL think a recursive DNS is a better design than the HOSTS file, and THEN I was accused of secretly living on the west coast and "tracking FOSS articles" as a paid M$ Ninja. which is extra funny as I've never been west of OKC and the only Linux article i post on is one where I was invited by the writer to be the "token Windows guy" to give the articles balance.
So its not paranoid if they really are out to get you. I heard the reason i'm not getting targeted ATM is the loonie is following APK around accusing him of being me and posting "die you fat fucker die" behind everything he posts. So don't blame me for not being able to tell if a guy is part of the FOSSie cult or just a normal user trying to argue with someone, not easy to tell here with all the nutsos anymore.
I feel your pain my brother, and that is one of the reasons i got out of corporate. Sure i don't make as much but i don't look like a walking corpse anymore and the constant headaches went away.
But your post just proves my point friend, all that shit you listed? SHOULD NOT BE IN PDF. The PDF file was a portable document for PRINTING, that was what it was designed for, that was its purpose. To upsell your employers they constantly tack on extra bullshit that gives it all these features the format was never designed to handle so guess what gets exploited? All the shitty Indian sweatshop coded "features' they use to force guys like you to buy the latest and greatest because the people you have to deal with have the latest and greatest. ya know i think MSFT is a stupid fucking company but I DO have to give credit where credit is due and the fact that I can open Office 2K10 files in Office 2K means I don't have to deal with the extra shit if i don't want to.
As for them releasing info on an exploit they have NO intention to fix for nearly a quarter why the fuck not? Where you gonna go? you said it yourself you " Have to have it" and that is why frankly they don't care. they know by adding all this proprietary bullshit that Foxit and the rest probably can't even attempt without being sued into oblivion means their corporate customers aren't going anywhere.
Until the corps get tired of the bullshit and switch to something else there simply is no reason for Adobe to care. How many years have Adobe reader exploits been a running joke? yet they still have corporate by the balls and they know it.
You see it is THIS, this right here, that is the cancer ruining Slashdot.
Once upon a time we had really good racist trolls, they were so subtle you wouldn't even catch the troll until the second paragraph. Like a good shit eater troll they would string you along, making you think it was a completely different post then WHAM, right in the balls.
Our OS fanbois brought true entertainment value to this site, like how Twitter could take a story about shoes and twist it into a truly Machiavellian tale of power and betrayal that always led to a secret bunker in Redmond where Gates and the Illuminati planned the destruction of everything with GNU in it. Our shills so damned good that they could make you root for Union Carbide and even those against them believed they were real.
Now like a TV series that has stay on long past the writers ability to think up new stories here lies the formerly great Slashdot. Once a great land where geeks fought epic battles about shit the common man couldn't even spell and where trolls pushed the limits simply to prove that they were the greatest in their fields. Now, sadly, it lies barren, where the best trolls can do is say the word nigger like a 3 year old saying dookie, the fanbois only call each other shill all day, and the geeks and their epic battles? The battlefield lies empty, their battles but fading echoes of a once great past. Truly a sad day my friends, truly a sad day.
Sorry that I can't get really heavily technical about it, i'm a PC builder and Bass player not a film expert. What I CAN tell you is this...Kodachrome gave a kind of warmth to the colors, the greens would have a little deeper hue, the blues were REALLY bright and airy, especially sky blue, it really seemed to make primary colors especially "pop" out at you, almost like you had colored them afterwards. Sure it wasn't ultra high res like the digital of today but frankly with a steady hand and kodachrome it was REALLY easy to take a decent photo, especially outdoors where of course a lot of pictures are taken.
As for printing your digital pics on Kodachrome? i honestly don't know as i don't know if it was the camera PLUS the film or the way they processed the film or what, but there are plenty of kodachrome fans out there and if you look for Kodachrome on Google images you'll find plenty of pictures on the net that will explain it better than i ever could. the clouds come out really puffy white, the blue is bright, the green has a nice deep almost mossy tone, and browns are really earthy.
I can't tell you if it was the design of the camera and how it interacted with the film or the way it was processed or what but Kodachrome just makes really nice pics, look some up and see for yourself. Kodak could have cashed in on that by faking it digitally and probably cleaned up but instead they sat on their butts while the world passed them by.All i know is i'd kill for a camera that was as easy to use and still get good shots as a camera loaded with Kodachrome was, the shots always come out colorful and pretty.
You are most welcome Achenaar and be sure to add to the suggestion box if there is a free app you like that isn't there as they add those that get submitted a lot. And despite what others have said here their autoupdate service may be pay for but their website installer is 100% free. just pick all the apps you want, start it and watch it go, really great for a new build.
BTW if you don't mind another suggestion, how would you like to never have to reinstall her PC again? Just use Paragon Backup Free which ironically if you click the download it goes to Cnet but if you'll type in the name of the software into major geeks you can get the 32 and 64 bit versions there. The nice thing about it is not only will it let you schedule backups, not only will it let you do differential as well as full, it'll let you make a hidden partition with it that will store your backup images and work similar to an OEM restore partition.
Once you get her PC just the way she like it just install Paragon and make a full backup. Then you can have a daily differential or if your lady is like mine and doesn't do a lot of installing or changing things just have it do a weekly. Since i have all her docs and other user folders on a D: drive she can just restore back with paragon and doesn't lose a single thing. If you DO use my little system with Paragon and a separate drive for her user files be sure to give her a browser that syncs like Comodo Dragon or Chrome. That way all her passwords and bookmarks will be synced to her gmail and if she needs to restore her browser will just resync on the next start. makes everything easy peasy and the PC as close to indestructible as you can get. I've got PCs out in the field that have been running for years using the above, no need for me with insta-restore. With the above the only time the little lady needs me to install a new OS is on a new PC for her, after that she is hassle free.
And you sir, are an idiot. Where did I even fucking mention Microsoft? the article was about cnet bundling malware so i pointed out a place that offered unattended installers with no toolbars or other crap.
Maybe if you'd quit wasting everyone's time going "Wahhh he won't drink the RMS koolaid waaah!" and quit getting the sand jammed in your vagina because nobody wants to talk about your niche OS of the week then maybe you'd have something productive to say yes? Try making...and i know its a concept...an OS that PEOPLE WANT TO USE and then you'll gain share, how about that?
you know for a group that talks about "freedom" all the time you certainly come off as VERY communistic. Sure you'll allowed to be free....to use what we say and think like us. Otherwise you MUST be one of THEM, insert which group is not like you this week. Hey do you think you could accuse me of working for Oracle next week? I hear old Larry has assloads of cash and I could use some extra this Xmas!
Exactly. Nobody is saying the Indians are shit, they are saying that companies that take the lowest priced shit get shit for their money and when we see Indian coders that is EXACTLY what we are seeing, why try to hide it? Good Indian coders cost good money, same as good coders anywhere. These companies don't go to India because they want to hire top notch Indians at a decent wage, these corps want as close to sweatshop as they can possibly get. you know this, i know this, hell didn't anybody watch "How NOT to hire an American"? These corps don't give a shit about quality, its all about cost. This is why our landfills are overflowing with cheap plastic garbage and people are being poisoned in China melting circuit boards for the metals, cheap ass bottom of the line shit. this is just cheap ass bottom of the line software instead of hardware and India is where you go to get a programmer for a price lower than dinner at Mickey D.
As for TFA this is why i'm so glad i haven't included Adobe Reader on a build of mine since Adobe 6. There are several excellent alternative readers like foxit and sumatra and foxit comes with safe reading on by default, so why would you want the risk that Reader causes? With Flash sandboxed in low rights mode and no reader i don't have to worry about Adobe bugs, which is nice. You'd have to be nuts to want Reader unless you simply have no other choice.
Hey I don't have a problem with you being on XP friend, if it works why fix it? I have windows 7 on one machine and XP on another, why bother switching the older XP machine?
My question would be why are you trying to run Adbobe reader at all when there is both Foxit and Sumatra on Ninite. Just check the box, click the download button and run it, that's it. then you can say goodbye to crappy Adobe Reader.
As for why Adobe can't build a secure reader? you answered it yourself friend when you said you thought it was " one program to do basically one simple enough thing" when to try to sell copies of Acrobat Adobe has been piling shit into that program for years. That is why frankly for production software like Acrobat i really wish they'd go to a yearly license model like AV companies use. that way instead of being pressured to constantly add new shit to the program so they have an excuse to upsell you they could just focus on making it better and more secure and get paid without having to add crap.
Bimbo Newton Crosby. I always thought in my typical logical guy thinking that "As long as the pants fit and cover my ass i'm good, thumbs up!" and my GF just rolled her eyes and said 'There IS a difference oh clueless one" and as much as i hate to admit my perfect guy logic could be actually mistaken about anything she is right. better fit, better material, holds up better over time. I've probably gone through 3 pairs of my guy logic pants compared to her 'just shut up and buy it" pants which are still like new.
Lets compare this to the knockoff iPads, they have crappier CPUs, lower res screens, less storage, and the few that do have similar specs are just as high or higher than the iPad because Cook was smart enough to lock his supply chain up at a favorable price tag. that makes them kinda pointless when you consider the larger support base of the Apple market unless you are just going out of your way NOT to buy apple, in which case its not like Apple is gonna make a sale if they wipe out the competition.
if you buy the knockoff you do so with eyes open. you decide its cheaper, it covers your ass, you're willing to deal with lesser quality for less money. I mean we've seen sub $200 Android pads all over the place for a couple of years now but I don't really see Apple suddenly having a nose dive in sales of the real thing, do you?
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I have some friends that are ex military (USAF and US Army) that sent all their buddies that were still in and I can back up what you are saying, as nearly all of them wanted me to load games and apps on big flash drives. I had never heard of a "game stick' as they called it and it was explained to me that while there are PCs everywhere the connections are locked down and spotty so they just load games on the sticks and that way when they have down time they can "data dump" as they called it and unwind with some games.
Looking at the video in TFA I have to agree that it doesn't look really damaged so either a computer bug from those bazillion flash sticks brought it down or they had an engine malfunction and it autoglided itself to a landing. maybe its because i'm not a military guy but I was amazed that they all just walk around popping sticks in everywhere, that is the kind of crap i would have brought to a screeching halt when i was working corporate and i can't believe that the US military just lets them go around popping sticks. Hell with the kind of money we spend on the military they ought to just contract out to one of the OEMs to have a nice ruggedized AMD netbook handed out to each soldier and then epoxy all the USB ports on the work machines.
The sad and frankly seriously fucking scary part? Follow the money, think about THIS question: What do these countries such as Iraq and Libya have in common? Not terrorism as Iraq had told most of them to go fuck themselves (As Saddam had too much on his plate with Iran to want to get involved and old MoMo had been throwing Al Qaeda in prison which just FYI but no less than THREE of the guys on the new Libyan ruling council are Al Qaeda) and its not religion as Iraq was controlled by Baathist and MoMo was more communist than anything so what is the connection between them and Iran and Syria?
The Federal Reserve and the Petrodollar, that's what. As I said the "rebels' rushed to make a central bank and quickly cut deals with the fed, Saddam had threatened to go to the Euro, and did you know that nearly two thirds of the petrodollars countries like Saudi Arabia trade for their oil ends up deposited in the federal reserve bank of NYC? And of course moMo had threatened to only accept gold for his oil as he feared the currency crisis, then suddenly he has an "Arab spring" moment, only its Al Qaeda and Qatar soldiers as the 'poor freedom fighters" backed up by billions in weapons from NATO.
I used to laugh at the whole "bankster" thing but frankly after paying attention to what has been going the last few years honestly i think that is EXACTLY what is happening, the banks are acting like the mob and anybody that threatens their operations get stomped on. on the one hand you have AIPAC throwing enough money into the ring that BOTH the dem AND rep POTUS candidate went to go kiss the ring at AIPAC before their campaigns, you have the fed making money hand over fist both on the petrodollars going out and then AGAIN on those same petrodollars when they come back, and then finally you have groups like Halliburton and Goldman Sachs tied into both AIPAC and the fed along with pretty much all major positions in the US gov making sure things run smoothly.
Frankly i don't blame iran for wanting the bomb, if I was them I'd be hustling like mad to get one just to save my own ass. it has been made VERY clear these last 20 or so years that if you fuck with the money flow, especially petro and narco dollars you ARE gonna get stomped on. there are too many of the 1% making frankly insane amounts of money off of these ops to let any third world country do anything to mess with the flow. look at which countries are left alone, what do they have in common? The bomb. its the only thing that lets you stand up to the banksters and money men anymore without getting squashed like a bug. if iran doesn't get the bomb they better kiss the ring and jump through the banksters hoops otherwise I smell 'regime change' in their future. Scary as hell that so few can kill so many just to maintain their profits.
What those links describe is basically a "who watches the watchers?" problem and i think i've got that licked friend, i have the firewall set up so that me and ONLY me has access to the DNS and the server itself uses 3 different root zones and caches the links I use ONLY if they match. so basically to poison the DNS well they'd have to poison 3 root zones at the same time and if they do that? Well pretty much ALL DNS is royally fucked and nobody is gonna be going anywhere.
But having lots of clients out in the sticks you quickly learn DNS is one of those things if you just don't do it yourself it just doesn't get done right. I usually have to set up 3 different DNS zones for clients just to deal with the shitty TTL and dropped packets at some of these SMBs, when all you have is AT&T in the area you learn to deal with such things. If I had the time to write custom HOSTS files for each client? hell it would probably work great, but I don't buddy, my ass is so damned swamped I'm a good week behind and that is with me getting MAYBE 6 hours worth of sleep a day, now I just got a call that my GF coming back with her BFF from visiting their old HS buddies hit a patch of ice and rolled the car so as soon as i can get these two "gotta have it today ZOMFG!" business laptops picked up I gotta shut down and head out for a 5 hour trip to her relatives. Thank God all she got was bruised and banged up but according to her dad the thing rolled 5 times down an embankment and could have been MUCH worse.
So my next post will likely be from her bedside as I wait on her to wake up from the pain meds. be careful out there APK as it really only takes a second for your life to completely change bro, if she wouldn't have been wearing her seat belt I could be leaving to go to her funeral right now. be safe friend, life can throw some hellish curves.
Well again it also comes down to power, as those older CPUs didn't have things like cool & quiet to drop the CPU when not doing any work so they ran full blast and if you were to use one how much longer would each task you have for it take VS a newer PC?
While i'm one of those folks that happily refurb older PCs for poor folks there is a minimum to be useful anymore. i mean seriously, who'd WANT to surf on a 733MHz P3? who'd want to do their work on it? IIRC it is generally better to use power to do a single job quickly and then drop to low power than it is to take much longer to do a job while drawing a steady stream, even if that stream is lower.
In the end while i'm a big fan of 'if it ain't broke' like with my example of the CRTs where taking those machines that practically run 24/7 and replacing the power hogging CRT with nice LCDs we significantly lowered our energy consumption sometimes it is better to go for the new tech where the power isn't being wasted. I mean which one do YOU think would suck more power when i was stuck at the doc for 5 hours yesterday, my old P4 mobile or my new Zacate?
I bet if one crunched the numbers the amount of energy used to generate the power ends up being more than the cost of making the new device, especially if the old device is recycled. Just look at the CRT VS LCD, where for a single day of 24/7 usage the LCDs use 1680w while the CRT uses 6480! That's a pretty big difference in draw there.
I personally think the whole thing with Iran stinks and smells like a CIA plant. look at Libya one of the first things the "rebels' did was set up a central bank, what kind of fucking rag tag bunch of freedom fighters rush to set up a central fricking bank before the firing is even halfway over? Not to mention watch the video of MoMo getting killed and nearly all his captors are wearing Qatar military uniforms and hey, guess who has a large base in Qatar? That would be the US military. Now there are 20,000 plus Russian stinger knockoff that old MoMo had bought in the hands of who the fuck knows, all because old MoMo threatened to sell his oil for gold instead of supporting the petro-dollar. Not saying MoMo wasn't a douche, but the whole thing smells like astroturf by the CIA using the Arab Springs as cover.
Sadly the USA has been the puppet of AIPAC and Israel for many years now thanks to what I call the "Jesus won't come back! Come back Jesus come back!" brigade that wouldn't care if we had to slaughter every brown person in the middle east to make Israel happy as long as there is a Jew in Zion.
So i'm sure we'll get lots more "teh evil Iranians want to kill us ZOMFG!" propaganda in the coming months, just as we saw that to this day something like 40% of US citizens think we attacked Iraq because of 9/11. The Jews don't like the idea of anyone else in the region having the bomb even thought they have dozens if not hundreds of them, but frankly after Iraq any country in that area that didn't kiss the US bankster and military ass would be nuts NOT to want a bomb, as its the only way to keep the warmongers in the halls of power from running you down.
final prediction? Now that we are pulling out if Iraq so we have the troops it'll be a toss up as to whether we go after Iran or Syria, neither country should be feeling too safe right now. Sadly the MSM has gotten so damned good at propaganda the POTUS could come out and say Iran caused 9/11 and many of the people would buy it without a second thought.
Don't feel bad friend, somewhere in one of my boxes in storage is a 64Mb CF card with card reader that I used as a thumbstick and paid close to $100 too. I thought when I got it "Wow these are DOZENS of floppies worth of data, how will i ever use it all up?" and now I carry around a 16Gb I paid $14 for on sale and have 4gb which is bigger than the first 5 HDDs i had on my keyring that was given to me free by a guy that basically uses the things like calling cards!
So don't feel bad friend, we're just antiques from when 8 tracks were playable in any car and dinosaurs roamed the earth. you want to feel old my oldest boy is in his second year of college and he has NEVER had an 8-track, cassette, or LP, ever! And he talks about how old he must be getting since his first PC ran windows 98 and had a Voodoo card!
And perfect is the enemy of good. Who cares if the picture is a little "better" which frankly is subjective, when you are talking about having more than FIVE TIMES the amount of power used? the new LCDs i got the boys are energy star and take a MAX of 35w each and that is with built in speakers. The 19 inch CRTs they replaced i looked up on the manufacturer's website and they were using 135w EACH.!
70 watts VS 270, not really a hard choice to make friend and BTW you know what the boys said about their new monitors? 'The picture is so bright, everything looks so crisp and sharp, I LOVE IT!" Sure if you are making your living running Photoshop i can see going IPS or keeping the CRT but frankly the new TFT LCDs are more than "good enough" for the vast majority or they wouldn't be selling like hotcakes now would they?
Personally i think the Hanns_G monitors look DAMNED good to my eyes, and if anybody wants one they have them for just $10 more than i paid so you can pick them up for $89 shipped. If anybody wants to replace a power sucking CRT I highly recommend, the speakers aren't the bassiest of things but with the kids regular speakers moved to the back it does make a nice set of front speakers.
But would they be better in the long run or worse? My CRT monitors worked just fine, just got finished replacing the last 2 in the family with 20 inch LCDs i got cheap on cyber Monday. while i will give those CRTs away rather than have them end up in the dump the amount of power they sucked was just unreal compared to the energy star LCDs i picked up, i could have easily run 5 monitors in the place of a single one of those CRTs and still had power left over.
The problem with making things last is the flip side and that's the fact that each generation the power usage gets MUCH better. My P4 mobile laptop is still running to this day with a customer but at its best it would suck a battery dry in 2 hours flat and cranked out the heat, while my new Zacate netbook runs 6 hours plus on a battery a hell of a lot smaller and plugged in it takes a max 18w under heavy load, most of the time less than 8 I'd say.
so do we REALLY want people keeping the old tech and draining that much more power, or is it better to have them get something new that uses much less? i'm not an economics guy so i don't know, i just know that the electric bill at my family's house dropped like mad without having those CRTs constantly pulling juice. the bill went down so much that they actually sent someone out to check the meter to make sure we hadn't figured out a way to scam them!
Oh Hai Swarley! I have been using ninite for nearly two years now and can tell you with 100% certainty that there is NO crapware, toolbars, or any BS, just the program itself installed with sane defaults and dropped onto your desktop just as pretty as you please.
But if you want to give it a spin, just to see for yourself, pick one of the easy single apps you don't have now, lets say Audacity or VLC. Run it, then check your machine, you'll find its clean. They make their money by hosting custom windows repos for corps and by selling an autoupdater service that will monitor and keep all the machines on an SMB updated for $10 a year per machine. Nice service BTW, i've had a couple of customers buy into it.
The regular ninite page though is 100% free and its clean as a whistle. just pick what you want, click the button, and away you go! it really is THAT simple friend, enjoy!
Hey Pete, i hope you enjoyed my laughing at old crazy oak, I did so enjoy farting in his general direction. The fact that he thinks you and i are the same person and hiding in some warroom in Redmond plotting the fall of FOSS is funny as shit, hell he's funnier than twitter! especially since you and I agreed to disagree (and i STILL think a recursive DNS is the better way, but different strokes) and are as different as a jet and a sub.
Anyway i'm sorry i couldn't get nastier on him but.....i'm just so damned happy! its hard to work up a good rant when you got a great little GF whose favorite pasttime is yours truly, made enough scratch in just the past week that after getting everybody's Xmas I not only got enough to surprise my sweetie with a kick ass custom quad core (built by yours truly of course) when she comes back from her family visit but I had Santa bring me a brand new Thuban and a kick ass Zalman supercooler so I should be able to hit crazy speeds!
so in conclusion just let me say Pete don't forget to enjoy the holiday, laugh at the dumbasses while enjoying all the bounty you have. and let me end with my new happy Xmas song! "We wish you a Merry Thuban, We wish you a Merry Thuban, We Wish you a Merry Thuban and a happy six corrrreeee!" yeee haaa!
Hi Oaktree, forget to take your meda AGAIN huh? well you know they say they won't work unless you take them every day! I hate to break the news to ya pal but I wouldn't know how to code in Delphi if you stuck a gun to my head, the last time i personally coded was when words like PEEK and POKE were still considered cutting edge programming skills.
Oh and I think its fricking hilarious that you think APK is me considering me and him still can't agree on shit as i STILL think a recursive DNS server is a better route than a HOSTS file. But once in a while he points me to one of your posts for shits and giggle so I can laugh and fart in your general direction.
Give it up dude, your OS is a corpse, its disco stu, its going on the cart whether it feels happy or not. hell even Asus that started the netbook craze with Linux won't even touch the shit anymore and you know why? because it sucks, its unstable, linus keeps going Goatse on the kernel, and finally too many frankly batshit users like you will take a cock slapping from the developers and come back and ask for more. if it were a company it would have been chapter 11 by now. MSFT sells more copies in a week than you get users in a year just because THEY LISTEN TO THE CUSTOMER while your kind jerks off to a bash script and wonders why the public can't see how "leet" a 70s terminal throwback is. Give it the fuck up and stay down, it isn't even enjoyable kicking you around anymore. Its like kicking a retard, it isn't even entertainment.
Now you be sure to rush to log out so you can write 'die you fat fucker" again like i give a flying fuck. I'm up to my ass in work, so much so that my GF who is coming down to rock my world (ever had one? Sex is great, especially with a girl that loves to play...of course you wouldn't know about that) is gonna be surprised with a brand new custom built quad by yours truly, sweet little machine if i do say so myself, the kids got more games than they can count (ever try them...no that's right all you have is tux racer...sorry) and even after buying everyone a nice Xmas this PC guy had enough left to talk Santa into bringing him a Thuban.
So please take your meds, eat some fiber, quit using dead OSes, and try getting laid occasionally. And allow me to say my crazy paranoid loser friend "I wish you a merry Thuban and a happy six coreee!". Man its so nice to be me, i just wake up in the morning smiling, of course the money and great sex might have something to do with it, but who am i to complain? But if you want to know who APK is he sure as hell ain't me, look up his history on CNet as he lurked there for years. From what i understand he's a programmer that has made a decent amount on the shareware, whereas the closest i got to writing a program with a GUI was a VB frontend to a DB back 10 years ago. I wouldn't exactly call that programming and I sure as hell didn't try selling it.
so guess again nutjob, who knows....maybe i'm in your area, maybe even on your street, do you know the guy behind you at the bank? might want to keep an eye on him, I'll be sure to smile at you to let you know its me...boo!
Sadly you are wrong, look at the AC below me, does he come up with something witty? maybe a good flame? nope its "Shut up troll" which actually points out EXACTLY what I was talking about, even our trolls are so fucking lazy now they just phone it in!
Hell I had one follow me around for a solid month last month, now with all the effort it took to scan every single article to find me SURELY he must have put some effort into his responses? Surely he must have really tore into me if he hated me enough to go to ALL THAT EFFORT? Nope all he wrote in every. single. post. was "Die you fat fucker". that's it, not even any variation, just that simple four word sentence that a real Slashdot troll would have taken as an insult to trolling. hell he didn't even try to hurt my feelings, he might as well have just typed 'dookie" and been done with it!.
That's just sad, that's what it is. I don't know if its OCD or video games or TV or chemicals in the food but frankly even douchebags have gotten so damned lazy i expect protests to have signs that read "Fill in insulting phrase' and leave it at that. Its a damned shame, no heart or soul, just phoning it in.
Call me paranoid but maybe some of the infected ones were lost on purpose? There are plenty of places to buy REALLY cheap USB sticks, especially if you get the smaller ones. IIRC there is a place selling the 256Mb sticks for something like 40c in bulk. If I wanted to spread malware to as many people as possible it sounds like an awful cheap way to do it, just leave sticks around the places where those that work at the place i ant to hack frequent, like say the subway they use at the time of the day they use it? Who cares if a couple get picked up by nobodies or end up in lost and found, they're cheap!
But the fact that they find so many whether lost intentionally or not really doesn't surprise me, hell I've lost some of my smaller sticks here and there. but of course i don't keep in data i give a crap about on them either, just drivers and flash tools for cleaning boxes. if someone was to find that 1gb stick i lost somewhere all they'll get is a bunch of freeware cleaners and the latest realtek drivers that were out at the time. Maybe the reason they weren't encrypted is like me many simply didn't have anything worth giving a shit about?
I wasn't talking about MS Office files, I was talking backwards compatibility. And nobody is saying PDF isn't a great format, its just Adobe has butchered the format by tacking on more and more bullshit like security features and crap that frankly should have NEVER been in the format. There are plenty of ways to securely encrypt and send a file that don't involve trying to shoehorn it into a format never designed for security.
But I think TFA proves my point, we get these Adobe attacks...what? a couple of times a month at least? and what is ALWAYS being attacked? the extra shit they bolted on so they can upsell Acrobat. I still say it would be better if Acrobat went SaaS or a yearly model like AV, then they wouldn't have to keep bolting crap onto PDF files just to sell new copies of Acrobat.
I know, isn't it just awful? Maybe they should call MSFT to get tips on mobile OSes nobody cares about. Of course its RIM, stupidity personified so it would be like the ultimate battle of the dumbasses if you put them and Ballmer's Folly against each other.
Lets all be honest for a moment shall we? RIM is dead, they are disco, they are going on the cart whether they feel happy or not. So the big question is this: Who picks over the corpse for the IP? While Google would be my first bet with Steve "I want to be like Apple damn it!" Ballmer in charge of MSFT they might try to pull another crazy yahoo bid for RIM out of their ass. any other takes you guys think?
Mind a suggest? I can tell you how to upgrade her hardware to something nice for around $100. get a nice cheap AMD board (cost at newegg...$29) and then go here and grab a Phenom. 4gb of DDR3 is $20, the CPU HSF another $10 for one that will cool a Phenom, no biggie.
As for PCs dying? i must have like the best luck on the planet then because besides the bit with the stolen cap formula i haven't see a PC dead from caps in ages. hell i have one that is over a decade old still in the field, it was handed down through 3 families until a gal that got it brought it to me and paid $50 to have me drop in a late model P4 with board and 1gb stick.
So honestly there isn't a reason why a PC can't last years and years especially if you DIY where you can buy quality parts. The reason you see these dead dells and HPs is because they skimp on EVERYTHING. They have shitty PSUs, fans, HSF, caps, anything they can screw to save a buck, as long as it'll last 3 minutes past warranty. meanwhile my PC is about to hit the 4 year mark and Santa is bringing me a Thuban (We wish you a merry Thuban and a happy six coreeee!) and from that one chip no less than FOUR people get upgraded, as my chip i have currently goes to my dad for his Phenom I Quad and his Quad goes to my girl as part of a nice new rig to replace her 5 year old box which will be going to her daughter. Oh make that FIVE people as the late model P4 her daughter has which she is switching for her mom's Pentium D will be going to her brother who has been using a late model P3 I had lying around in the shop as a netbox.
So you see? PCs are the gift that keeps on giving, they just get passed from hand to hand like how my boys are gaming on my hand me downs with a cheap HD4850 thrown in. BTW please don't just throw your wife's PC away, wipe it and put it on your local Freecycle. there are plenty of guys like me that refurb older models for folks that don't have one and while DDR 1 might be expensive for all you know somebody there has a box full of the stuff. Oh and if you want some DDR 1 RAM try your local mom and pop shop. We usually have plenty of the older sticks and will often cut you a deal.
Sorry about that friend and I'm glad i helped your mom but it has NOTHING to do with taking my meds and everything to do with a Linux loonie that followed me all over the net for over a month just so he could post as AC "die you fat fucker die". look up my posts from around a month ago, first he accused me of being APK, which i thought was funny because me and APK had a running argument for over a month and I STILL think a recursive DNS is a better design than the HOSTS file, and THEN I was accused of secretly living on the west coast and "tracking FOSS articles" as a paid M$ Ninja. which is extra funny as I've never been west of OKC and the only Linux article i post on is one where I was invited by the writer to be the "token Windows guy" to give the articles balance.
So its not paranoid if they really are out to get you. I heard the reason i'm not getting targeted ATM is the loonie is following APK around accusing him of being me and posting "die you fat fucker die" behind everything he posts. So don't blame me for not being able to tell if a guy is part of the FOSSie cult or just a normal user trying to argue with someone, not easy to tell here with all the nutsos anymore.
I feel your pain my brother, and that is one of the reasons i got out of corporate. Sure i don't make as much but i don't look like a walking corpse anymore and the constant headaches went away.
But your post just proves my point friend, all that shit you listed? SHOULD NOT BE IN PDF. The PDF file was a portable document for PRINTING, that was what it was designed for, that was its purpose. To upsell your employers they constantly tack on extra bullshit that gives it all these features the format was never designed to handle so guess what gets exploited? All the shitty Indian sweatshop coded "features' they use to force guys like you to buy the latest and greatest because the people you have to deal with have the latest and greatest. ya know i think MSFT is a stupid fucking company but I DO have to give credit where credit is due and the fact that I can open Office 2K10 files in Office 2K means I don't have to deal with the extra shit if i don't want to.
As for them releasing info on an exploit they have NO intention to fix for nearly a quarter why the fuck not? Where you gonna go? you said it yourself you " Have to have it" and that is why frankly they don't care. they know by adding all this proprietary bullshit that Foxit and the rest probably can't even attempt without being sued into oblivion means their corporate customers aren't going anywhere.
Until the corps get tired of the bullshit and switch to something else there simply is no reason for Adobe to care. How many years have Adobe reader exploits been a running joke? yet they still have corporate by the balls and they know it.
You see it is THIS, this right here, that is the cancer ruining Slashdot.
Once upon a time we had really good racist trolls, they were so subtle you wouldn't even catch the troll until the second paragraph. Like a good shit eater troll they would string you along, making you think it was a completely different post then WHAM, right in the balls.
Our OS fanbois brought true entertainment value to this site, like how Twitter could take a story about shoes and twist it into a truly Machiavellian tale of power and betrayal that always led to a secret bunker in Redmond where Gates and the Illuminati planned the destruction of everything with GNU in it. Our shills so damned good that they could make you root for Union Carbide and even those against them believed they were real.
Now like a TV series that has stay on long past the writers ability to think up new stories here lies the formerly great Slashdot. Once a great land where geeks fought epic battles about shit the common man couldn't even spell and where trolls pushed the limits simply to prove that they were the greatest in their fields. Now, sadly, it lies barren, where the best trolls can do is say the word nigger like a 3 year old saying dookie, the fanbois only call each other shill all day, and the geeks and their epic battles? The battlefield lies empty, their battles but fading echoes of a once great past. Truly a sad day my friends, truly a sad day.
Sorry that I can't get really heavily technical about it, i'm a PC builder and Bass player not a film expert. What I CAN tell you is this...Kodachrome gave a kind of warmth to the colors, the greens would have a little deeper hue, the blues were REALLY bright and airy, especially sky blue, it really seemed to make primary colors especially "pop" out at you, almost like you had colored them afterwards. Sure it wasn't ultra high res like the digital of today but frankly with a steady hand and kodachrome it was REALLY easy to take a decent photo, especially outdoors where of course a lot of pictures are taken.
As for printing your digital pics on Kodachrome? i honestly don't know as i don't know if it was the camera PLUS the film or the way they processed the film or what, but there are plenty of kodachrome fans out there and if you look for Kodachrome on Google images you'll find plenty of pictures on the net that will explain it better than i ever could. the clouds come out really puffy white, the blue is bright, the green has a nice deep almost mossy tone, and browns are really earthy.
I can't tell you if it was the design of the camera and how it interacted with the film or the way it was processed or what but Kodachrome just makes really nice pics, look some up and see for yourself. Kodak could have cashed in on that by faking it digitally and probably cleaned up but instead they sat on their butts while the world passed them by.All i know is i'd kill for a camera that was as easy to use and still get good shots as a camera loaded with Kodachrome was, the shots always come out colorful and pretty.
You are most welcome Achenaar and be sure to add to the suggestion box if there is a free app you like that isn't there as they add those that get submitted a lot. And despite what others have said here their autoupdate service may be pay for but their website installer is 100% free. just pick all the apps you want, start it and watch it go, really great for a new build.
BTW if you don't mind another suggestion, how would you like to never have to reinstall her PC again? Just use Paragon Backup Free which ironically if you click the download it goes to Cnet but if you'll type in the name of the software into major geeks you can get the 32 and 64 bit versions there. The nice thing about it is not only will it let you schedule backups, not only will it let you do differential as well as full, it'll let you make a hidden partition with it that will store your backup images and work similar to an OEM restore partition.
Once you get her PC just the way she like it just install Paragon and make a full backup. Then you can have a daily differential or if your lady is like mine and doesn't do a lot of installing or changing things just have it do a weekly. Since i have all her docs and other user folders on a D: drive she can just restore back with paragon and doesn't lose a single thing. If you DO use my little system with Paragon and a separate drive for her user files be sure to give her a browser that syncs like Comodo Dragon or Chrome. That way all her passwords and bookmarks will be synced to her gmail and if she needs to restore her browser will just resync on the next start. makes everything easy peasy and the PC as close to indestructible as you can get. I've got PCs out in the field that have been running for years using the above, no need for me with insta-restore. With the above the only time the little lady needs me to install a new OS is on a new PC for her, after that she is hassle free.
Anyway enjoy and i'm glad to help.
And you sir, are an idiot. Where did I even fucking mention Microsoft? the article was about cnet bundling malware so i pointed out a place that offered unattended installers with no toolbars or other crap.
Maybe if you'd quit wasting everyone's time going "Wahhh he won't drink the RMS koolaid waaah!" and quit getting the sand jammed in your vagina because nobody wants to talk about your niche OS of the week then maybe you'd have something productive to say yes? Try making...and i know its a concept...an OS that PEOPLE WANT TO USE and then you'll gain share, how about that?
you know for a group that talks about "freedom" all the time you certainly come off as VERY communistic. Sure you'll allowed to be free....to use what we say and think like us. Otherwise you MUST be one of THEM, insert which group is not like you this week. Hey do you think you could accuse me of working for Oracle next week? I hear old Larry has assloads of cash and I could use some extra this Xmas!
Exactly. Nobody is saying the Indians are shit, they are saying that companies that take the lowest priced shit get shit for their money and when we see Indian coders that is EXACTLY what we are seeing, why try to hide it? Good Indian coders cost good money, same as good coders anywhere. These companies don't go to India because they want to hire top notch Indians at a decent wage, these corps want as close to sweatshop as they can possibly get. you know this, i know this, hell didn't anybody watch "How NOT to hire an American"? These corps don't give a shit about quality, its all about cost. This is why our landfills are overflowing with cheap plastic garbage and people are being poisoned in China melting circuit boards for the metals, cheap ass bottom of the line shit. this is just cheap ass bottom of the line software instead of hardware and India is where you go to get a programmer for a price lower than dinner at Mickey D.
As for TFA this is why i'm so glad i haven't included Adobe Reader on a build of mine since Adobe 6. There are several excellent alternative readers like foxit and sumatra and foxit comes with safe reading on by default, so why would you want the risk that Reader causes? With Flash sandboxed in low rights mode and no reader i don't have to worry about Adobe bugs, which is nice. You'd have to be nuts to want Reader unless you simply have no other choice.
Hey I don't have a problem with you being on XP friend, if it works why fix it? I have windows 7 on one machine and XP on another, why bother switching the older XP machine?
My question would be why are you trying to run Adbobe reader at all when there is both Foxit and Sumatra on Ninite. Just check the box, click the download button and run it, that's it. then you can say goodbye to crappy Adobe Reader.
As for why Adobe can't build a secure reader? you answered it yourself friend when you said you thought it was " one program to do basically one simple enough thing" when to try to sell copies of Acrobat Adobe has been piling shit into that program for years. That is why frankly for production software like Acrobat i really wish they'd go to a yearly license model like AV companies use. that way instead of being pressured to constantly add new shit to the program so they have an excuse to upsell you they could just focus on making it better and more secure and get paid without having to add crap.
Bimbo Newton Crosby. I always thought in my typical logical guy thinking that "As long as the pants fit and cover my ass i'm good, thumbs up!" and my GF just rolled her eyes and said 'There IS a difference oh clueless one" and as much as i hate to admit my perfect guy logic could be actually mistaken about anything she is right. better fit, better material, holds up better over time. I've probably gone through 3 pairs of my guy logic pants compared to her 'just shut up and buy it" pants which are still like new.
Lets compare this to the knockoff iPads, they have crappier CPUs, lower res screens, less storage, and the few that do have similar specs are just as high or higher than the iPad because Cook was smart enough to lock his supply chain up at a favorable price tag. that makes them kinda pointless when you consider the larger support base of the Apple market unless you are just going out of your way NOT to buy apple, in which case its not like Apple is gonna make a sale if they wipe out the competition.
if you buy the knockoff you do so with eyes open. you decide its cheaper, it covers your ass, you're willing to deal with lesser quality for less money. I mean we've seen sub $200 Android pads all over the place for a couple of years now but I don't really see Apple suddenly having a nose dive in sales of the real thing, do you?