Great film - "High Noon" in space. Sean Connery, Peter Boyle, Frances Sternhagen. Pretty crisp piece of work, IMHO.
And what about Gattica? Hasn't every one of us said, well, I may not have $20 million, but I'd cheerfully give my left nut to spend a week on the ISS?
Either of those films swamps anything Lucas did after Empire Strikes Back, and most of the Treks. And for the record, I DID like Undiscovered Country.
Um, well. I'm scheduled to have the machine over the weekend to rebuild in my "spare time" (I trust you're laughing with me and not at me). God, it's terrible having a fat mouth AND being a dolt.
To try to respond:
1) To be perfectly honest, I'm not sure in what fashion Jay (the aforemention friend) tried to uninstall IE; while there still was an instance of iexplore.exe on his machine it would crash within seconds of launching, with some fairly bizarre window behavior as I recall. Not even sure if I'll be able to round up any reliable information about this.
2) I tried to manually set the NIC configuration and the main issue was that it would not pick up a DNS Server. I could ping the gateway - note that I was on a 192.168 segment - but get no further. Heck I even activated the DNS Server on my machine, tested it with another laptop to ensure that it worked, and then tried to get his machine to work with it while on the same LAN segement without luck. It was purely bizarre.
3) While I have seen a breathtaking variety of spyware, I've never seen one that absolutely hosed TCP/IP connectivity in such a fashion. Hijacks, keyloggers, automatic ad displays, etc., to be sure, but never anything like this. Note this does not preclude the possibility of some new piece of (poorly written or virus-like - your choice) spyware that does behave in this fashion. Naturally, however, the only information I have is a claim that "I was able to get on the net until I removed IE." We've all coped with end-user claims, give the statement the weight you wish.
Man if this was caused purely by spyware - and I'm not discounting the possibility - isn't it hilarious/tragic that the end result was to remove the machine from the network rather than perform the ostensible purpose of such code?
I have a friend with whom I go to Rutgers Law at night. Said friend (he is a good guy, just not technically savvy) likes, shall we say, a particular kind of Web content. Sites which contain said content often contain "helper" applications. He noticed them and decided to install FireFox so as to not be so vulnerable (rather than just hiking his browser security settings when visiting such sites). Decided further to remove IE from his Windows XP SP2 machine. Result: Machine no longer will get on a network, even when all NIC drivers are reinstalled and connectivity parameters are entered manually.
Granted his machine is a bloody mess, riddled with SpyWare but, prior to the uninstall, at least he could connect to a network - which would make my thankless task of resurrecting this poor abused box much easier.
Lesson: Sure, IE isn't part of the operating system, provided you don't count a working TCP/IP stack as a necessary part of the OS.
Boy, I'm with you. I took a buttkicking from a 13 year old girl out of Blackpool England at Literati one day (I'm a 41 year old Berkeley grad - she beat me by about 100 points) and it took the Literati bug right out of me.
One thing about the Vizcaino case that does not come out in FindLaw (nor in Lexis, WestLaw, or employment textbooks) is the ongoing bitter legal disputes between the US Government and Microsoft at that time. I realize this is a bit of a slam against the federal court, accusing them of bowing to pressure (or taking direction) from an agency of the executive branch, but there it is.
Being that as far as I know there is no running gun battle between HP and the US right now, we may see a much different ruling, precedent notwithstanding. To be honest, I'm not sure I agreed with the ruling in Vizcaino either.
Best,
-BN
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Great film - "High Noon" in space. Sean Connery, Peter Boyle, Frances Sternhagen. Pretty crisp piece of work, IMHO. And what about Gattica? Hasn't every one of us said, well, I may not have $20 million, but I'd cheerfully give my left nut to spend a week on the ISS? Either of those films swamps anything Lucas did after Empire Strikes Back, and most of the Treks. And for the record, I DID like Undiscovered Country.
If not, Intel has failed to update it's site...
To try to respond:
1) To be perfectly honest, I'm not sure in what fashion Jay (the aforemention friend) tried to uninstall IE; while there still was an instance of iexplore.exe on his machine it would crash within seconds of launching, with some fairly bizarre window behavior as I recall. Not even sure if I'll be able to round up any reliable information about this.
2) I tried to manually set the NIC configuration and the main issue was that it would not pick up a DNS Server. I could ping the gateway - note that I was on a 192.168 segment - but get no further. Heck I even activated the DNS Server on my machine, tested it with another laptop to ensure that it worked, and then tried to get his machine to work with it while on the same LAN segement without luck. It was purely bizarre.
3) While I have seen a breathtaking variety of spyware, I've never seen one that absolutely hosed TCP/IP connectivity in such a fashion. Hijacks, keyloggers, automatic ad displays, etc., to be sure, but never anything like this. Note this does not preclude the possibility of some new piece of (poorly written or virus-like - your choice) spyware that does behave in this fashion. Naturally, however, the only information I have is a claim that "I was able to get on the net until I removed IE." We've all coped with end-user claims, give the statement the weight you wish.
Man if this was caused purely by spyware - and I'm not discounting the possibility - isn't it hilarious/tragic that the end result was to remove the machine from the network rather than perform the ostensible purpose of such code?
Best,
-BN
Quite right, should have an update after the weekend (the laptop is scheduled to be handed over tonight).
Excellent point. Hear, hear.
Granted his machine is a bloody mess, riddled with SpyWare but, prior to the uninstall, at least he could connect to a network - which would make my thankless task of resurrecting this poor abused box much easier.
Lesson: Sure, IE isn't part of the operating system, provided you don't count a working TCP/IP stack as a necessary part of the OS.
Boy, I'm with you. I took a buttkicking from a 13 year old girl out of Blackpool England at Literati one day (I'm a 41 year old Berkeley grad - she beat me by about 100 points) and it took the Literati bug right out of me.
One thing about the Vizcaino case that does not come out in FindLaw (nor in Lexis, WestLaw, or employment textbooks) is the ongoing bitter legal disputes between the US Government and Microsoft at that time. I realize this is a bit of a slam against the federal court, accusing them of bowing to pressure (or taking direction) from an agency of the executive branch, but there it is. Being that as far as I know there is no running gun battle between HP and the US right now, we may see a much different ruling, precedent notwithstanding. To be honest, I'm not sure I agreed with the ruling in Vizcaino either. Best, -BN