i have had experience with alpha5, way back in the past on the MGON StrikeForce forums. he can actually be a decent bloke, just has a hankering for stirring up trouble.
i can tell you where he lives if you want to put a, errr, permanent ban on him..
This is not because the British have worse broadband than everyone else, its because we delight in moaning about it more than anyone else. as you can see, by simply moving to Britain, you are swiftly caught up in this, and start to moan just like everyone else. We will tolerate just about anything, as long as we are able to complain impotently.
i agree fully with this. Symantec gives me no feeling of security whatsoever. a friend of mine had norton 2004 on his box, started acting strangely, so i put AVG on there and it pulled up two or three infected files, that would have been on his machine for months, if not years, yet norton never spotted them.
what i would like is a virus scanner where i can install the central management software on a linux box, and have a windows client connect to this for updates etc. some companies suggest they might be able to do this, although are a little vague, and i dont know enough about linux to be satisfied with vague. i *could* know enough about linux, but I don't have the time to spend a few days building the software to discover it doesnt do what i need it to do.
any suggestions/success stories? a linux server in charge of viruses would make me much happier than my current dogshit XP/symantec corp ed. solution.
my bank uses a combination of a password and a 'secret word' of my choice, from which I pick two letters (say letter 3 and letter 6) each time i log in. letter picking is done with a drop down, and pressing the key for your letter does nothing (ie: it doesn't skip directly to that letter in the dropdown)
i think this is a fairly decent method, as its not hard to remember a single word of your choice, and the input would be reasonably hard to log, as it is mouse driven etc. not flawless, but i am satisfied that its about as secure as i need it to be
ive got an MS Intellimouse explorer optical (turba alpha plus supercharged... how many words would like to throw into that mouse name mr. gates??, had it for 5 years and its great. what was beige is now yellow, but it still works flawlessly, is comfy to use and generally ninja.
i have an MS internet pro keyboard too, with about 20 extra media and browser buttons, which all work with no driver and are very useful. not for browsing, but i rebound them all to winamp commands (shuffle on/off, show playlist and so on) and that is really very useful. i cant find another keyboard with as many buttons on it, which makes me anxious for the day this one dies and i have to replace it.
once we colonise mars, we can send the poor people there! its two birds with one stone!
seriously though, poverty inspired huge numbers of people to venture to the new world 400 years ago. crossing the atlantic on a 17th Century tallship was probably a similar venture in relative terms to going to mars in about 50 to 100 years, when it becomes feasible. obviously its all completely different now, no need to stack up all the 'are you comparing yadda yadda...? replies below, however there may well be some parallels.
furthermore, space travel is just as valid a use of resources as sport, or art. it doesnt feed your kids, but it does feed their spirits.
i thought SLi only allowed you to use the ports on the back of one card? since all SLi capable cards have at least a DVI and a VGA (if not 2x DVI) can you not plug both monitors in to the one card and have it work like that? having both monitors working when you are gaming is great, you can have your teamspeak, msn, xfire, winamp etc on the 2nd screen, which allows you to see what is going on without dropping from the game.
Have you ever seen a roundabout in action? i drive around the UK all the time, it used to be my job to deliver motors to addresses nationwide.
you NEVER wait 5000 cars at a roundabout - any busy road is likely to be busy in both directions - therefore anyone turning right, or into the road you are trying to exit, creates a space for you to enter the roundabout. the more cars are trying to exit a road onto the roundabout, the more cars are likely to be entering that road from the roundabout. its absolutely scalable for this reason - the more traffic there is, the more likely smoeone will create an opening for you on the roundabout.
plus, there is nothing to stop you putting traffic lights all over a roundabout, which allows you to control traffic artificially at busy periods.
oops, i appear to have a boner for roundabouts. sad.
roundabouts are the greatest traffic controlling device ever. i love them, for during the day, they regulate the flow of traffic with no complex computers, no lights, signals or complex rules - just a lump of concrete, and look right.
at night they are good places to put the back end out and wildly fishtail around like a lunatic. =)
blimey, i amazed you have any money to actually buy things with. i mean, you can't possibly have time for a job, with all the time you must spend hiding your identity from your supermarket.
i had exactly the same problem with One by One, so i had to download a working copy. fucking pissed me right off, and i havent bought a CD since. i have mounted One by One on my wall, as The Last CD I Will Ever Buy.
1) license fairplay to other manufacturers of portable devices.
didn't they just sue real for this? if they didnt want to lock you into an iPod, this would be the way around it.
this is so blatently obvious i am astounded it took all these posts to get here. if the computer is in a public place, you dont need a v-chip. if you trust your kids sufficiently to give them a computer you can't see, then you dont need a v-chip. if you are an incapable retard, you DO need a v-chip.
as an aside, when i was a kid my mum solved the problem of playing too much NES by issuing me with game-time vouchers whenever i did chores. doing the washing up earned me an hour of gaming, cooking dinner got me two hours, that sort of thing. it Really Fucking Pissed me off then, but now i appreciate the value i got from it.
Honestly, you people are sad. Not the parent in particular, but all you tinfoilers who think this is soem sort of Evil Marketing Ploy (of evil)
the guy clearly declared he would swim the atlantic in some meeting, the PR people stitched him up by telling the world, and now he has done the decent thing and gone for a dip in the sea off oslo. Of Course he isn't going to swim across the Atlantic, but that doesnt make this some cynical ploy to part innocent god-fearing folk with their money. its a few people at work, having a laugh, which happens to have gathered some limited media coverage.
Good points. I guess you are basically right, however it still really pisses me off that instead of using technology and communicatiosn media for the betterment of mankind in general by sharing the wealth and knowledge, we are creating laws and disclaimers to prevent it.
So, the information the professor gives you is his intellectual property is it? what about the parts he was taught by someone else? if you pass the information on to someone else, is it your IP or the professor's IP?
at what point does 'learning' become 'IP theft'? something is seriously wrong with the culture at your university, and with society in general, if knowledge is going to be wrapped up in disclaimers and intellectual property rights.
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i can tell you where he lives if you want to put a, errr, permanent ban on him..
This is not because the British have worse broadband than everyone else, its because we delight in moaning about it more than anyone else. as you can see, by simply moving to Britain, you are swiftly caught up in this, and start to moan just like everyone else. We will tolerate just about anything, as long as we are able to complain impotently.
mmm orangey potatoes...
what i would like is a virus scanner where i can install the central management software on a linux box, and have a windows client connect to this for updates etc. some companies suggest they might be able to do this, although are a little vague, and i dont know enough about linux to be satisfied with vague. i *could* know enough about linux, but I don't have the time to spend a few days building the software to discover it doesnt do what i need it to do.
any suggestions/success stories? a linux server in charge of viruses would make me much happier than my current dogshit XP/symantec corp ed. solution.
i think this is a fairly decent method, as its not hard to remember a single word of your choice, and the input would be reasonably hard to log, as it is mouse driven etc. not flawless, but i am satisfied that its about as secure as i need it to be
searchlets (you heard it here first, folks!) thats nice. sadly for you, you didn't patent it quick enough. Please pay me $15.
i have an MS internet pro keyboard too, with about 20 extra media and browser buttons, which all work with no driver and are very useful. not for browsing, but i rebound them all to winamp commands (shuffle on/off, show playlist and so on) and that is really very useful. i cant find another keyboard with as many buttons on it, which makes me anxious for the day this one dies and i have to replace it.
once we colonise mars, we can send the poor people there! its two birds with one stone! seriously though, poverty inspired huge numbers of people to venture to the new world 400 years ago. crossing the atlantic on a 17th Century tallship was probably a similar venture in relative terms to going to mars in about 50 to 100 years, when it becomes feasible. obviously its all completely different now, no need to stack up all the 'are you comparing yadda yadda...? replies below, however there may well be some parallels. furthermore, space travel is just as valid a use of resources as sport, or art. it doesnt feed your kids, but it does feed their spirits.
i thought SLi only allowed you to use the ports on the back of one card? since all SLi capable cards have at least a DVI and a VGA (if not 2x DVI) can you not plug both monitors in to the one card and have it work like that? having both monitors working when you are gaming is great, you can have your teamspeak, msn, xfire, winamp etc on the 2nd screen, which allows you to see what is going on without dropping from the game.
usually, the one in the kitchen gets the most use, as it involves less stair traversal from the living room.
maybe i'm dense, but i see no wrong with they're, being as it is a contraction of 'they are'. feel free to tear me to shreds if i am wrong. =)
you NEVER wait 5000 cars at a roundabout - any busy road is likely to be busy in both directions - therefore anyone turning right, or into the road you are trying to exit, creates a space for you to enter the roundabout. the more cars are trying to exit a road onto the roundabout, the more cars are likely to be entering that road from the roundabout. its absolutely scalable for this reason - the more traffic there is, the more likely smoeone will create an opening for you on the roundabout.
plus, there is nothing to stop you putting traffic lights all over a roundabout, which allows you to control traffic artificially at busy periods.
oops, i appear to have a boner for roundabouts. sad.
at night they are good places to put the back end out and wildly fishtail around like a lunatic. =)
thanks. now you tell me.
blimey, i amazed you have any money to actually buy things with. i mean, you can't possibly have time for a job, with all the time you must spend hiding your identity from your supermarket.
Count me in!
i had exactly the same problem with One by One, so i had to download a working copy. fucking pissed me right off, and i havent bought a CD since. i have mounted One by One on my wall, as The Last CD I Will Ever Buy.
1) license fairplay to other manufacturers of portable devices. didn't they just sue real for this? if they didnt want to lock you into an iPod, this would be the way around it.
as an aside, when i was a kid my mum solved the problem of playing too much NES by issuing me with game-time vouchers whenever i did chores. doing the washing up earned me an hour of gaming, cooking dinner got me two hours, that sort of thing. it Really Fucking Pissed me off then, but now i appreciate the value i got from it.
=)
the guy clearly declared he would swim the atlantic in some meeting, the PR people stitched him up by telling the world, and now he has done the decent thing and gone for a dip in the sea off oslo. Of Course he isn't going to swim across the Atlantic, but that doesnt make this some cynical ploy to part innocent god-fearing folk with their money. its a few people at work, having a laugh, which happens to have gathered some limited media coverage.
chill out and enjoy it for what it is.
you re-install your OS before you look at the processes tab? blimey.
Good points. I guess you are basically right, however it still really pisses me off that instead of using technology and communicatiosn media for the betterment of mankind in general by sharing the wealth and knowledge, we are creating laws and disclaimers to prevent it.
if i tape the news, am i violating the newsreader's IP? the situation seems fairly similar to me.
at what point does 'learning' become 'IP theft'? something is seriously wrong with the culture at your university, and with society in general, if knowledge is going to be wrapped up in disclaimers and intellectual property rights.
in fact, it sickens me.