The ironic part about pointing out dupes; mentioning that this article is just the same as a prior one leads to comments of a like vein, ie. comments that all say the same thing. Hell, half of the comments here are dupe comments, and I mean that in multiple senses of the term . . .
hah, I didn't get it for a second, then I went, "oh, hey . .."
Some say this is off-topic, but it's actually quite related, albeit in a disguised way (though I suppose here, off-topic covers anything not absolutely on topic, things aren't allowed to be merely related, oh well).
Google may not have given an explicit answer, but the first result was:
Open Tech Support - More new members coming.... Posted by: RAcastClarke What is a henway?? Sounds like something involving
the transportation of poultry. Posted by: ZLRAC HeHeHe, about four pounds!...
Which contains the right answer, and gave me a mental image of some sort of mass chicken transportation system! So in this case, no big loss that Google Q&A doesn't supply the answer (though, admittedly, I wasn't actually looking for it, what with you already supplying it and me being the staunch advocate of the metric system regardless).
I'm so hardcore I haven't seen either of them
Ah, but then, how do you actually know that they suck? I mean, not that I'm saying you're wrong or anything.
As in, the big worry was heart fibrillation. I held on to a computer monitor as it was plugged in (the case was off), and recieved a couple tens of thousands of volts . . . burnt my thumb really had where I was holding it. I swore quite a bit, punched a locker (this was at school during a spare), walked down to the office . . . and then passed out, probably psychosomatic more than anythig else (though all that shaking does take it out of you).
I woke up a minute later on the office floor (oddly enough, I didn't "pass out" in a classical sense, I just had all my senses slowly fade until I was essentially unconscious simply because I had no awareness of any stimuli---very disconcerting, to say the least). After that I was taken in an ambulance to the hospital, though I was quite fine. I spent quite awhile tring to explain to a doctor how this had happened, he was baffled as to how I had burnt myself so badly off of wall current. "No, no, monitors have capacitors and..." but he wasn't getting it. It was a wasted couple of hours, but at least I got to join the very exclusive club of "people that had left our school in an ambulance", and I got a pretty unique story out of it.
It did mean that we never got that computer into the locker, though. Oh well, it probably just would've electrocuted the entire bank of lockers. On second thought, damn, that would've been interesting . . .
even though I realize only morons would fall for it, it still annoyed me. Maybe I'll feel bad for them, maybe I'll just sigh, maybe I'll even laugh, depends on what kind of person I am; but on the company's side, what they were doing (well, still are, I assume; oops, I didn't RTFA, but that doesn't make me all that atypical here . . . but take this, I'm going to go off and read it right now . . . yeah, nothing about actually stopping the advertisements, aside from the ones in store windows) is pretty evil, willingly taking advantage of people's stupidity.
We can't always protect stupid people; this being slashdot, alot of people here are probably like "hah! stupid people! they get what they deserve", but when we see companies doing things like this, it makes sense to say "no, that's not the kind of things we wan't people to be able to get away with in our society." We shouldn't turn a blind eye towards lies and misleading half-truths just because we ourselves find it damn easy to spot them for what they are.
If Compaq/HP contractors weren't getting payed sufficiantly more than employees to cover this kind of thing then they should have walked away from the job en-mass. At that point either HP finds they didn't need the contractors anyway, they increase the money or they start hireing lots more employees.
Or the company just hires more people who are willing to work in the same situation that all the quitting contractors worked under; there's an endless supply of people willing to be exploited. After all, being exploited still can pay the bills. Sometimes it looks like a good deal, even if in reality the company is taking advantage of them, it's hard often for the low-level employee or contractor to see what they should be getting. That's really the point of this lawsuit, I would think. Other than a court order, there's not really any way to leverage HP into changing anything, they can just swap in different contractors; one of the advantages of having people on easily disposable contracts like this.
but it shouldn't essentially be that way; sure, there should be radio programs that just offer background murmuring, that's a niche that needs to be filled. But by no means should they all be that way. Thankfully, radio stations in my area such as the CBC and the local campus radio (CJSR . . . now you know where I live;) have offered enough in the way of intelligent programming that I have been able to see what radio is capable of being.
I can see that some people might never think of radio as being more than just background noise, depending on what they've been exposed to. Alot of radio, in a lot of places, especially here in North America, is really just easily-digested consumable noise. But it doesn't have to be. As someone above pointed out, Quirks and Quarks is one such good example of a thinking-person's radio program, and others do exist, even if they're drowning in a sea of meaninglessness.
Alot of people seem to hate it. Others, myself included, find it hard to live with any other version of Winamp; there are quite a few little details that Winamp5 is just plain lacking in. Not to say that Winamp5 doesn't have some advantages, but it has some things that are missing for seemingly no reason other than to make it more like Winamp2 (where, for example, is the "delete duplicated items" option? Or the multiple embedded playlists?).
Of course, if you want to polarize people further, just bring up Wasabi.player. Personally, I rather liked it, slow as it was, due to a few really useful little things (like the ability to right-click on a song and then open up the folder that contains it), but then, alas, it stopped working on my computer, regardless of whether I re-install it or not. Perhaps a WinXP patch broke it? Perhaps someone just really fucked up when programming it? Who knows.
And the worst part is, we're addicted to it now in Canada. So much of our trade is directly between us and the U.S. that we've become dependent on it, Canada is treated terribly unfair to the expense of Canadian producers and consumers alike, but the sheer amount of business means that the price of breaking off would be prohibitively expensive. It's an abusive relationship we've trapped ourselves in.
(Though I feel a bit odd phrasing things the way I do, having dual-citizenship and all . . . the "them" and "us" tend to differ from occasion to occasion for me. I could just as easily rephrase the above as remorse over how abysmally "we" treat "them").
But, yes. The icing on the cake, of course, is that the arbitration in NAFTA invariably falls in favour of the States, so even having binding arbitration wouldn't help Canada much.
I've heard it remarked that much of Australia's history is a result of trying to pretend it's part of Europe and the Western countries, while in reality it sits right alonside Asia. This may be a better way to go; ignore free trade with the states, start making use of the fact that they're within sight of Japan and China and so on. Though from all the things I can remember reading about the state of these ideas in Australia, and the current politics, I suppose that isn't all that likely to happen.
Oh well. People will realize; probably too late, though. Canada and Australia can go out for drinks and bitch to eachother about how crappy the States treat them, and then cave in again the next time the U.S. comes around.
because, though some still look long term, one merely has to look at the behavior of companies, and it becomes quite clear which camp of investors they generally cater to. Next Quarter is king.
That's . . . very, very odd. I've often been able to max out my bandwidth with torrents (though not nowadays, considering that I'm at the university residence . . . faster even than my prior aDSL, true, but if I let it go, I'd break my weekly download/upload limits damn quickly!). There are many things that could be going wrong. One of the problems often encountered, which is the most likely cause since I've seen similar same symptoms on many a computer, is your router. Part of the reason I've never had to care is 'cause I've eskewed routers; I hate them, I reallly do. But if you're using one, and getting crappy speeds using BitTorrent, this may very well be it, so just read up on the solution here. Hope that works for ya.
but somewhat questionable nowadays. The iPod was not the first of it's kind by any means, merely the most commerically successful. OSX is based on UNIX; good for it, a smart and useful move, but, well, this is slashdot, y'all know how long unix-based OSes have existed. Apple was not the first to field a 64-bit CPU, though it did beat out AMD's offering, but AMD's chips beat out all the existing 64-bit CPUs and was a far more exciting leap in processing power. When Apple does succeed, nowadays at least, they don't succeed by being first, but by doing it with enough polish that it beats out what might've been awkward implementations that existed prior.
"Why not use a regular USB drive? It's still much less expensive than an iPod."
'cause it wouldn't get written up on Slashdot. Duh!
Oh, so true.
"Another thing that the all-powerful iPod can do? Post post post!"
"But wait, what's so special about that? There are dozens of other--"
"No! iPod! iPod! You will bow down before it!"
I myself would certainly NOT say that socialism is the prevailing dogma in the UK; maybe the UK has more social welfare programs than the US (I can't claim to know the details all that intimately), but the ideology is far from socialist. I honestly can't buy the idea that the UK is traditionally and dogmatically socialist. I . . . I really just don't know how to argue this. If you really believe that, what can I say? How do I point out the strong capitalist nature, the fact that business is not staunchly centrally controlled, that the idea of "too each according to their needs, from each according to their abilities" is FAR from the orthodox attitude? If you can't see those things already, if you think that the UK is socialist, how could I possibly convince you? The UK is far from the ideal of a workers paradise, far from being a land of equal standing and community-run society (as opposed to Bourgeois-run, as a marxist would argue that the UK and the western world in general is at the moment, what with being controlled by business as it is . . . surely you must have noticed it, all those big corporations in places like, oh, the UK).
It's as if you were steadfastly declaring the sky to be naturally bright orange. I don't know where it comes from, this ignorance of the evidence that I would expect to be infront of your eyes. Are you thrown off by the name of the party currently in power, and you're taking it literally? Are you so staunchly right-wing that any place that doesn't go "Capitalism, Capitalism, rah rah rah!" 24/7 is socialist? (and even then you'd be misled, since I wouldn't say that the UK is all that much less into capitalism than the States).
Sorry if I seem to be making assumptions about you, but honestly . . . where the hell does your assertion that "In the UK, socialism is the prevailing dogma and the traditional, orthodox attitude" come from? That just sounds so ludicrous to me.
I should have elaborated, I guess. So, as I've elaborated here, your assumptions are completely incorrect. Furthermore, I do actually know for a fact that my modem on my old connection at home (it's an older aDSL modem--the newer ones might, actually, but I luckily got one before Telus switched over to the newer system) has no built-in firewall.
And you've hit upon the note I was trying to play with this. People are so very, very sure that without lockdown via extensive firewalling that boxes get taken over inevitiably, so convinced that it's not possible to defend one's computer other than with these over-the-top methods, that you've convinced yourself of things that I know for a fact, to a very extensive degree, are not true. And you probably won't believe me. But my point isn't that any user can survive, sans firewalling. I'm far from a normal case -- when you say that there "are many people out there like you", you're confusing things. The problem is partially that there aren't. I don't mean to sound egotistical, but yeah, I'll concede, though it sounds conceited, that it takes a bit of knowledge to pull off what I've done. But no one is babysitting me (as noted in my comment linked to above, I specifically told my current "ISP" not to).
Security is not a matter of checking off a list of things you have to have set up. There is no single path to having a hassle-free box---just because I don't use the method you think I should most certainly does not mean my method doesn't work. It works for me quite well indeed.
Alright, I've replied enough to my replies, if anyone still thinks I must be actually unknowingly following conventions, or alternatively I'm actually hacked without me knowing it . . . well, they can just keep on believing that. Their assurity doesn't stop me from enjoying the reality they're so sure isn't possible!
No, I am not updated to SP2. I have updates on to tell me when they're available, but not to actually download them. See my reply to another comment a bit above.
And, haha, dial-up, it's been over half a decade since I had that. I don't have comcast, no, I had a higher-end aDSL for a long time, and at the moment I'm on broadband-on-steroids (ie. university connection).
Or at least, wrong in my case, on all counts. Trust me, I run enough things that would be fucked up if there was any sort of firewall and I hadn't completely configured it, I know that there's no firewall. I know what each and every process listed in the "Processes" list in the task manager does (and I have a third-party app to get more details, so trust me, I'm not being fooled.
My old ISP didn't block anything. My new ISP is the local campus residence server, and I have explicitly told them that I wanted to completely opt out of any ports being blocked (it was either completely opt out, or let them decide).
I don't download the updates automatically, so I just keep opting out of SP2. No matter how many times I say "do not notify me of this update again," Microsoft keeps trying to tell me what's good for me. I disagree, as you can tell.
Interestingly, I've seen Cain (too lazy to find the link, but if you're wondering what I'm talking about it shouldn't be hard) log what definitely look like a few attempts to get into my computer. With the passwords set how they are, though, it's been impossible, and the examples are just interesting little bits in the log, no actual threat.
I understand why you would call me insane . . . by the logic most people go by, and indeed by what happens to most people (I'm not going to claim I'm even close to an average example), it would seem like this. But, reality is matching up with my ideas. It's not insanity if things end up acting the way I think they do for me. Go ahead, be paranoid if you want to be; I won't even object to your assumptions, you may be right in most people's cases.
well, I think that the diagonal-line problem is universal across platform for VLC; some people just don't notice it, I think I recall seeing it on a friend's computer, he too runs OSX, and he was baffled by my attempts to explain to him what I was seeing. But VLC is certainly much better than most of the players for OSX (like Quicktime), so I'll give you a nod there (odd, actually, that windows has more selection for something that's
media-related, but nowadays these situations are not very black and white anymore).
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The ironic part about pointing out dupes; mentioning that this article is just the same as a prior one leads to comments of a like vein, ie. comments that all say the same thing. Hell, half of the comments here are dupe comments, and I mean that in multiple senses of the term . . .
hah, I didn't get it for a second, then I went, "oh, hey . . ."
Some say this is off-topic, but it's actually quite related, albeit in a disguised way (though I suppose here, off-topic covers anything not absolutely on topic, things aren't allowed to be merely related, oh well).
Google may not have given an explicit answer, but the first result was:
... Posted by: RAcastClarke What is a henway?? Sounds like something involving
the transportation of poultry. Posted by: ZLRAC HeHeHe, about four pounds! ...
Open Tech Support - More new members coming.
Which contains the right answer, and gave me a mental image of some sort of mass chicken transportation system! So in this case, no big loss that Google Q&A doesn't supply the answer (though, admittedly, I wasn't actually looking for it, what with you already supplying it and me being the staunch advocate of the metric system regardless).
I'm so hardcore I haven't seen either of them Ah, but then, how do you actually know that they suck? I mean, not that I'm saying you're wrong or anything.
As in, the big worry was heart fibrillation. I held on to a computer monitor as it was plugged in (the case was off), and recieved a couple tens of thousands of volts . . . burnt my thumb really had where I was holding it. I swore quite a bit, punched a locker (this was at school during a spare), walked down to the office . . . and then passed out, probably psychosomatic more than anythig else (though all that shaking does take it out of you).
I woke up a minute later on the office floor (oddly enough, I didn't "pass out" in a classical sense, I just had all my senses slowly fade until I was essentially unconscious simply because I had no awareness of any stimuli---very disconcerting, to say the least). After that I was taken in an ambulance to the hospital, though I was quite fine. I spent quite awhile tring to explain to a doctor how this had happened, he was baffled as to how I had burnt myself so badly off of wall current. "No, no, monitors have capacitors and..." but he wasn't getting it. It was a wasted couple of hours, but at least I got to join the very exclusive club of "people that had left our school in an ambulance", and I got a pretty unique story out of it.
It did mean that we never got that computer into the locker, though. Oh well, it probably just would've electrocuted the entire bank of lockers. On second thought, damn, that would've been interesting . . .
Geek, of course.
That totally blows my mind. I just can't comprehend it. It's like, "
" and "
" . . . wow. I can hardly believe my eyes, my mind is still reeling.
even though I realize only morons would fall for it, it still annoyed me. Maybe I'll feel bad for them, maybe I'll just sigh, maybe I'll even laugh, depends on what kind of person I am; but on the company's side, what they were doing (well, still are, I assume; oops, I didn't RTFA, but that doesn't make me all that atypical here . . . but take this, I'm going to go off and read it right now . . . yeah, nothing about actually stopping the advertisements, aside from the ones in store windows) is pretty evil, willingly taking advantage of people's stupidity.
We can't always protect stupid people; this being slashdot, alot of people here are probably like "hah! stupid people! they get what they deserve", but when we see companies doing things like this, it makes sense to say "no, that's not the kind of things we wan't people to be able to get away with in our society." We shouldn't turn a blind eye towards lies and misleading half-truths just because we ourselves find it damn easy to spot them for what they are.
in Soviet Russia "web analyses you!", not "analytics webs you"! Sheesh.
If Compaq/HP contractors weren't getting payed sufficiantly more than employees to cover this kind of thing then they should have walked away from the job en-mass. At that point either HP finds they didn't need the contractors anyway, they increase the money or they start hireing lots more employees.
Or the company just hires more people who are willing to work in the same situation that all the quitting contractors worked under; there's an endless supply of people willing to be exploited. After all, being exploited still can pay the bills. Sometimes it looks like a good deal, even if in reality the company is taking advantage of them, it's hard often for the low-level employee or contractor to see what they should be getting. That's really the point of this lawsuit, I would think. Other than a court order, there's not really any way to leverage HP into changing anything, they can just swap in different contractors; one of the advantages of having people on easily disposable contracts like this.
but it shouldn't essentially be that way; sure, there should be radio programs that just offer background murmuring, that's a niche that needs to be filled. But by no means should they all be that way. Thankfully, radio stations in my area such as the CBC and the local campus radio (CJSR . . . now you know where I live ;) have offered enough in the way of intelligent programming that I have been able to see what radio is capable of being.
I can see that some people might never think of radio as being more than just background noise, depending on what they've been exposed to. Alot of radio, in a lot of places, especially here in North America, is really just easily-digested consumable noise. But it doesn't have to be. As someone above pointed out, Quirks and Quarks is one such good example of a thinking-person's radio program, and others do exist, even if they're drowning in a sea of meaninglessness.
That was a very clear and concise explanation of what this is all about; bravo!
Alot of people seem to hate it. Others, myself included, find it hard to live with any other version of Winamp; there are quite a few little details that Winamp5 is just plain lacking in. Not to say that Winamp5 doesn't have some advantages, but it has some things that are missing for seemingly no reason other than to make it more like Winamp2 (where, for example, is the "delete duplicated items" option? Or the multiple embedded playlists?).
Of course, if you want to polarize people further, just bring up Wasabi.player. Personally, I rather liked it, slow as it was, due to a few really useful little things (like the ability to right-click on a song and then open up the folder that contains it), but then, alas, it stopped working on my computer, regardless of whether I re-install it or not. Perhaps a WinXP patch broke it? Perhaps someone just really fucked up when programming it? Who knows.
And the worst part is, we're addicted to it now in Canada. So much of our trade is directly between us and the U.S. that we've become dependent on it, Canada is treated terribly unfair to the expense of Canadian producers and consumers alike, but the sheer amount of business means that the price of breaking off would be prohibitively expensive. It's an abusive relationship we've trapped ourselves in. (Though I feel a bit odd phrasing things the way I do, having dual-citizenship and all . . . the "them" and "us" tend to differ from occasion to occasion for me. I could just as easily rephrase the above as remorse over how abysmally "we" treat "them"). But, yes. The icing on the cake, of course, is that the arbitration in NAFTA invariably falls in favour of the States, so even having binding arbitration wouldn't help Canada much. I've heard it remarked that much of Australia's history is a result of trying to pretend it's part of Europe and the Western countries, while in reality it sits right alonside Asia. This may be a better way to go; ignore free trade with the states, start making use of the fact that they're within sight of Japan and China and so on. Though from all the things I can remember reading about the state of these ideas in Australia, and the current politics, I suppose that isn't all that likely to happen. Oh well. People will realize; probably too late, though. Canada and Australia can go out for drinks and bitch to eachother about how crappy the States treat them, and then cave in again the next time the U.S. comes around.
because, though some still look long term, one merely has to look at the behavior of companies, and it becomes quite clear which camp of investors they generally cater to. Next Quarter is king.
That's . . . very, very odd. I've often been able to max out my bandwidth with torrents (though not nowadays, considering that I'm at the university residence . . . faster even than my prior aDSL, true, but if I let it go, I'd break my weekly download/upload limits damn quickly!). There are many things that could be going wrong. One of the problems often encountered, which is the most likely cause since I've seen similar same symptoms on many a computer, is your router. Part of the reason I've never had to care is 'cause I've eskewed routers; I hate them, I reallly do. But if you're using one, and getting crappy speeds using BitTorrent, this may very well be it, so just read up on the solution here. Hope that works for ya.
but somewhat questionable nowadays. The iPod was not the first of it's kind by any means, merely the most commerically successful. OSX is based on UNIX; good for it, a smart and useful move, but, well, this is slashdot, y'all know how long unix-based OSes have existed. Apple was not the first to field a 64-bit CPU, though it did beat out AMD's offering, but AMD's chips beat out all the existing 64-bit CPUs and was a far more exciting leap in processing power. When Apple does succeed, nowadays at least, they don't succeed by being first, but by doing it with enough polish that it beats out what might've been awkward implementations that existed prior.
"Why not use a regular USB drive? It's still much less expensive than an iPod."
'cause it wouldn't get written up on Slashdot. Duh!
Oh, so true.
"Another thing that the all-powerful iPod can do? Post post post!"
"But wait, what's so special about that? There are dozens of other--"
"No! iPod! iPod! You will bow down before it!"
I myself would certainly NOT say that socialism is the prevailing dogma in the UK; maybe the UK has more social welfare programs than the US (I can't claim to know the details all that intimately), but the ideology is far from socialist. I honestly can't buy the idea that the UK is traditionally and dogmatically socialist. I . . . I really just don't know how to argue this. If you really believe that, what can I say? How do I point out the strong capitalist nature, the fact that business is not staunchly centrally controlled, that the idea of "too each according to their needs, from each according to their abilities" is FAR from the orthodox attitude? If you can't see those things already, if you think that the UK is socialist, how could I possibly convince you? The UK is far from the ideal of a workers paradise, far from being a land of equal standing and community-run society (as opposed to Bourgeois-run, as a marxist would argue that the UK and the western world in general is at the moment, what with being controlled by business as it is . . . surely you must have noticed it, all those big corporations in places like, oh, the UK).
It's as if you were steadfastly declaring the sky to be naturally bright orange. I don't know where it comes from, this ignorance of the evidence that I would expect to be infront of your eyes. Are you thrown off by the name of the party currently in power, and you're taking it literally? Are you so staunchly right-wing that any place that doesn't go "Capitalism, Capitalism, rah rah rah!" 24/7 is socialist? (and even then you'd be misled, since I wouldn't say that the UK is all that much less into capitalism than the States).
Sorry if I seem to be making assumptions about you, but honestly . . . where the hell does your assertion that "In the UK, socialism is the prevailing dogma and the traditional, orthodox attitude" come from? That just sounds so ludicrous to me.
you'll get modded up, but unlikely for someone that badmouths Apple here to find any favour with the mods, regardless of how lucid the point.
I should have elaborated, I guess. So, as I've elaborated here, your assumptions are completely incorrect. Furthermore, I do actually know for a fact that my modem on my old connection at home (it's an older aDSL modem--the newer ones might, actually, but I luckily got one before Telus switched over to the newer system) has no built-in firewall.
And you've hit upon the note I was trying to play with this. People are so very, very sure that without lockdown via extensive firewalling that boxes get taken over inevitiably, so convinced that it's not possible to defend one's computer other than with these over-the-top methods, that you've convinced yourself of things that I know for a fact, to a very extensive degree, are not true. And you probably won't believe me. But my point isn't that any user can survive, sans firewalling. I'm far from a normal case -- when you say that there "are many people out there like you", you're confusing things. The problem is partially that there aren't. I don't mean to sound egotistical, but yeah, I'll concede, though it sounds conceited, that it takes a bit of knowledge to pull off what I've done. But no one is babysitting me (as noted in my comment linked to above, I specifically told my current "ISP" not to).
Security is not a matter of checking off a list of things you have to have set up. There is no single path to having a hassle-free box---just because I don't use the method you think I should most certainly does not mean my method doesn't work. It works for me quite well indeed.
Alright, I've replied enough to my replies, if anyone still thinks I must be actually unknowingly following conventions, or alternatively I'm actually hacked without me knowing it . . . well, they can just keep on believing that. Their assurity doesn't stop me from enjoying the reality they're so sure isn't possible!
No, I am not updated to SP2. I have updates on to tell me when they're available, but not to actually download them. See my reply to another comment a bit above.
And, haha, dial-up, it's been over half a decade since I had that. I don't have comcast, no, I had a higher-end aDSL for a long time, and at the moment I'm on broadband-on-steroids (ie. university connection).
I really, really don't like that thing. That's the first thing I turned off, waaaay back.
Or at least, wrong in my case, on all counts. Trust me, I run enough things that would be fucked up if there was any sort of firewall and I hadn't completely configured it, I know that there's no firewall. I know what each and every process listed in the "Processes" list in the task manager does (and I have a third-party app to get more details, so trust me, I'm not being fooled.
My old ISP didn't block anything. My new ISP is the local campus residence server, and I have explicitly told them that I wanted to completely opt out of any ports being blocked (it was either completely opt out, or let them decide).
I don't download the updates automatically, so I just keep opting out of SP2. No matter how many times I say "do not notify me of this update again," Microsoft keeps trying to tell me what's good for me. I disagree, as you can tell.
Interestingly, I've seen Cain (too lazy to find the link, but if you're wondering what I'm talking about it shouldn't be hard) log what definitely look like a few attempts to get into my computer. With the passwords set how they are, though, it's been impossible, and the examples are just interesting little bits in the log, no actual threat.
I understand why you would call me insane . . . by the logic most people go by, and indeed by what happens to most people (I'm not going to claim I'm even close to an average example), it would seem like this. But, reality is matching up with my ideas. It's not insanity if things end up acting the way I think they do for me. Go ahead, be paranoid if you want to be; I won't even object to your assumptions, you may be right in most people's cases.
But, not in mine.
well, I think that the diagonal-line problem is universal across platform for VLC; some people just don't notice it, I think I recall seeing it on a friend's computer, he too runs OSX, and he was baffled by my attempts to explain to him what I was seeing. But VLC is certainly much better than most of the players for OSX (like Quicktime), so I'll give you a nod there (odd, actually, that windows has more selection for something that's media-related, but nowadays these situations are not very black and white anymore).