Folks, I'd now like to direct you to a wonderful little extension for firefox called, "Reload Every". You can set it to reload every second. You can go to the extentions section of spread firefox and do a search on 'reload every'. There are two results. It is the second. Now, some would use this power for evil, but, noone here. Right? Wow, I wonder how a bunch of slashdotters using this at www.grokster.com would go? Hmm. Not much, but I bet the logs could get messy.
This is not a new concept in the least.
At my old high school years ago we worked on IBM PS/2 PC's that were networked by way of Token Ring (yes, you read that right, a token ring network, not ethernet).
In any event, every student had a default password ("pass", I do believe). What made it better is the login was a student number that was on every teacher's attendance list. So, if you could get a look at (or, in my case, get a hold of) these attendance sheets which often got thrown away for some reason or another, you could find the unlucky victim or an enemy student's number, and proceed to see if you could get in. This proved to be easy most times due to the fact that in my rural area not a lot of folks were exactly.. computer saavy.
Of course, it was much more fun when I got access to an assistant computer teacher's account and played around with his (much more powerful) options. His password was simply the name of the University he loved and was always telling us about. Very foolish.
Strong passwords people. It's the first defense. It may cost more for your department to make up unique defaults for users, but in the end you will save money and a great deal of embarassment.
Did anyone else here get a terrible vision of that old Medic Alert commercial where the old lady says so dramatically, "I've fallen, and I can't get up!"?
If I'm not mistaken, that particular executable file is probably one of many created by a program called WinPup(WinPup32?). When I used windows I noticed spikes in CPU usage at about five second intervals. I called up the mighty(HA) task manager and took a look at the processes. Randomly named.exe's popped up every five seconds.
Do a google on WinPup. It will involve(if I remember correctly) deleting the winpup file from/system32 and editing the registry. Best in safe mode if I'm right. This can be tricky because the registry entry also changes names with the random executables so you must be fast(even in safe mode). It is a bitch. Probably one of the harder ones I had to remove.
I hope this helps you bmo. Let us know.
As for the new security threats.. Bah. I run linux, very happily, now.
It's called "Xkill". In KDE simply navigate to System>monitoring>Xkill. Not that hard at all. Although, it is much less likely(in my experience) to have a program crash in linux than in Windows.
This seems like a great idea. However, after scanning the article and seeing the amounts of money involved with this solution I'm wonder if the 'bottom line' will get in the way of this. Especially here in the states. It's a sad truth that when it comes down to it, money talks.
I'm a gadget guy, so this caught my interest with a quickness. From a quick look at the site I'm just wondering...
Could there be some kind of GPS tech. involved where if you want to go to a specific exhibit in the museum it directs you that way from your current location. On a more mundane but no less important note, this would also be useful finding the restroom facilities at the game.(Important after a couple of beers)
These are the thoughts that keep me out of the really good schools I guess.
Yeah, I started online in 1991. I got a modem for my Tandy1000 on my birthday. I thought I was slick shit. There wasn't a lot to do in those days but it was still very much fun.
Now that I've thought about it I probably got the 419 scam email in around 1995. It was very rare then though as I had to do some looking to confirm my beliefs. I just thought that $2,000,000 was a lot to be offering like that. Especially since I was a kid without a bank account.
You're probably right. I think it was more around 1995-1996(hence the ? after the year) making me about 15 and still about as immature.
I'm getting senile in my old age I guess.
I remember getting one of these letters in my inbox when I was about twelve or thirteen(1992?). I was fooled... For about half a second.
Even then, I knew it was utter BS. I responded to the guy, letting him think that I was interested in his scheme. While this sucker was waiting for bank information(didn't have) and the like, I was researching(on the net, of course) this sort of thing to see if it was a common scam.
To make a long story short my final response to him included a copy of what I sent to the FBI(including his first mail, full headers) and some more colorful references to his parentage, ancestry, and sexual orientation.(Hey, I was thirteen!)
This is not actually a surprise to me. A lot of programs like this are made for windows, more than likely because of it's popularity(sad as it is, I know).
No one said that there will never be a linux or mac port but I wouldn't be betting on it in the near future either, although I don't know how linux is doing in Austrailia.
In the end it's all about popularity and until we can start converting friends and family over to the light side of the force(ie. linux) this is the sort of thing we will have to get used to (Or create our own ports).
This is great to hear. Getting stuck in one distribution is sometimes a bad thing( I know, we all have our favorites).
I started a year and half ago with linux and it made computing fun for me again which I didn't think was possible. (Not since the Tandy 1000 days?)
So, to see a company like this offering more than Redhat (which doesn't impress me a whole lot), gives me some hope for the proliferation of linux and open source in a broader market.
(From the off topic but needs to be said department)
Saturn, you're a racist idiot and all your posts are nothing more than garbage. Is there honestly nothing more exciting to do in the trailer park than get on slashdot and make a fool of yourself? Shouldn't you be at the kkk homepage, trying to win over an attractive cousin, or anything else but coming here and removing all doubt that you are a complete and utter waste of oxygen and space?
I don't know about Europe, but I thoroughly enjoy Mandrake. I'm wondering what, if any, effect this is going to have on future releases.
I'm biased because Mandrake really got me into the linux field and away from Micro$oft products. And linux has made computing fun to me again, which has not been the case for some years now.
I say, if they are trying to make things a little more uniform with these sorts of mergers(software, releases, security) then yay for them. Let's see how it turns out.
Hoooo.(Wipes brow)
You know, I was a little worried for a minute there. Actually, very worried. Then I realized I was reading this article in Firefox from my mandrakelinux box.
So, until they start making me use GovSoft(c), I guess I'll be all right.
Strangly enough, I'm rather impressed. I'm running it on a Win2k box and it has actually found one or two things adaware/spybot seemed to miss(ran them yesterday with no results). Don't get me wrong, I love my Debian and Mandrake, but this seems to be a small step in the right direction.
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Folks, I'd now like to direct you to a wonderful little extension for firefox called, "Reload Every". You can set it to reload every second. You can go to the extentions section of spread firefox and do a search on 'reload every'. There are two results. It is the second. Now, some would use this power for evil, but, noone here. Right? Wow, I wonder how a bunch of slashdotters using this at www.grokster.com would go? Hmm. Not much, but I bet the logs could get messy.
Hitting refresh is so 20th century.
Don't have to much fun at www.grokster.com now.
This is not a new concept in the least.
At my old high school years ago we worked on IBM PS/2 PC's that were networked by way of Token Ring (yes, you read that right, a token ring network, not ethernet).
In any event, every student had a default password ("pass", I do believe). What made it better is the login was a student number that was on every teacher's attendance list. So, if you could get a look at (or, in my case, get a hold of) these attendance sheets which often got thrown away for some reason or another, you could find the unlucky victim or an enemy student's number, and proceed to see if you could get in. This proved to be easy most times due to the fact that in my rural area not a lot of folks were exactly.. computer saavy.
Of course, it was much more fun when I got access to an assistant computer teacher's account and played around with his (much more powerful) options. His password was simply the name of the University he loved and was always telling us about. Very foolish.
Strong passwords people. It's the first defense. It may cost more for your department to make up unique defaults for users, but in the end you will save money and a great deal of embarassment.
Did anyone else here get a terrible vision of that old Medic Alert commercial where the old lady says so dramatically, "I've fallen, and I can't get up!"?
Maybe that's just me.
No offense intended, but, did you ever turn these machines on?
Hi,
.exe's popped up every five seconds.
/system32 and editing the registry. Best in safe mode if I'm right. This can be tricky because the registry entry also changes names with the random executables so you must be fast(even in safe mode). It is a bitch. Probably one of the harder ones I had to remove.
If I'm not mistaken, that particular executable file is probably one of many created by a program called WinPup(WinPup32?). When I used windows I noticed spikes in CPU usage at about five second intervals. I called up the mighty(HA) task manager and took a look at the processes. Randomly named
Do a google on WinPup. It will involve(if I remember correctly) deleting the winpup file from
I hope this helps you bmo. Let us know.
As for the new security threats.. Bah. I run linux, very happily, now.
It's called "Xkill". In KDE simply navigate to System>monitoring>Xkill. Not that hard at all. Although, it is much less likely(in my experience) to have a program crash in linux than in Windows.
Yes, but does it run linux?
Seriously, though..
This seems like a great idea. However, after scanning the article and seeing the amounts of money involved with this solution I'm wonder if the 'bottom line' will get in the way of this. Especially here in the states. It's a sad truth that when it comes down to it, money talks.
I'm a gadget guy, so this caught my interest with a quickness. From a quick look at the site I'm just wondering...
Could there be some kind of GPS tech. involved where if you want to go to a specific exhibit in the museum it directs you that way from your current location. On a more mundane but no less important note, this would also be useful finding the restroom facilities at the game.(Important after a couple of beers)
These are the thoughts that keep me out of the really good schools I guess.
Yeah, I started online in 1991. I got a modem for my Tandy1000 on my birthday. I thought I was slick shit. There wasn't a lot to do in those days but it was still very much fun.
Now that I've thought about it I probably got the 419 scam email in around 1995. It was very rare then though as I had to do some looking to confirm my beliefs. I just thought that $2,000,000 was a lot to be offering like that. Especially since I was a kid without a bank account.
You're probably right. I think it was more around 1995-1996(hence the ? after the year) making me about 15 and still about as immature. I'm getting senile in my old age I guess.
I remember getting one of these letters in my inbox when I was about twelve or thirteen(1992?). I was fooled...
For about half a second.
Even then, I knew it was utter BS. I responded to the guy, letting him think that I was interested in his scheme. While this sucker was waiting for bank information(didn't have) and the like, I was researching(on the net, of course) this sort of thing to see if it was a common scam.
To make a long story short my final response to him included a copy of what I sent to the FBI(including his first mail, full headers) and some more colorful references to his parentage, ancestry, and sexual orientation.(Hey, I was thirteen!)
This is not actually a surprise to me. A lot of programs like this are made for windows, more than likely because of it's popularity(sad as it is, I know).
No one said that there will never be a linux or mac port but I wouldn't be betting on it in the near future either, although I don't know how linux is doing in Austrailia.
In the end it's all about popularity and until we can start converting friends and family over to the light side of the force(ie. linux) this is the sort of thing we will have to get used to (Or create our own ports).
This is great to hear. Getting stuck in one distribution is sometimes a bad thing( I know, we all have our favorites).
I started a year and half ago with linux and it made computing fun for me again which I didn't think was possible. (Not since the Tandy 1000 days?)
So, to see a company like this offering more than Redhat (which doesn't impress me a whole lot), gives me some hope for the proliferation of linux and open source in a broader market.
She won't let those evil robots come and eat me. Although they don't believe me.
(From the off topic but needs to be said department)
Saturn, you're a racist idiot and all your posts are nothing more than garbage. Is there honestly nothing more exciting to do in the trailer park than get on slashdot and make a fool of yourself? Shouldn't you be at the kkk homepage, trying to win over an attractive cousin, or anything else but coming here and removing all doubt that you are a complete and utter waste of oxygen and space?
I don't know about Europe, but I thoroughly enjoy Mandrake. I'm wondering what, if any, effect this is going to have on future releases.
I'm biased because Mandrake really got me into the linux field and away from Micro$oft products. And linux has made computing fun to me again, which has not been the case for some years now.
I say, if they are trying to make things a little more uniform with these sorts of mergers(software, releases, security) then yay for them. Let's see how it turns out.
Hoooo.(Wipes brow) You know, I was a little worried for a minute there. Actually, very worried. Then I realized I was reading this article in Firefox from my mandrakelinux box. So, until they start making me use GovSoft(c), I guess I'll be all right.
Same here. Win2k SP4 and it looks really good and actually runs faster than adaware/spybot.
Strangly enough, I'm rather impressed. I'm running it on a Win2k box and it has actually found one or two things adaware/spybot seemed to miss(ran them yesterday with no results).
Don't get me wrong, I love my Debian and Mandrake, but this seems to be a small step in the right direction.
Now, if this only had something to include adware the fine folks in Cali could take a small chunk out of the RIAA/MPAA and Overpeer.http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/ 12/31/1553231&tid=95&tid=97&tid=172&tid=17
That would be comedy.