This is of course not true. It is quite possible to protect your systems against worms and other mishaps like this.
Learn a bit about security and limited user accounts. Make sure that normal users cannot write to directories like %programfiles%, %system% and %windir%. Don't allow users to work as administrator.
Install a service like TrustNoExe. Set it up so that executable programs are only allowed in %programfiles% and %windir% (and other directories that normal users cannot write, and that you use to store programs).
Now, when a user receives a program in mail or downloads it from the internet, it cannot be executed. Storing it somewhere in his writable directories (Documents and Settings directory, networkdrives) is possible but it just cannot be started.
It does not require user education, just an educated administrator.
I imagine that in each such car there will be a big roll of EULA text readable through a tiny window in the dashboard (scrollable by a wheel so that you can read only 4 lines of the text at a time), with an 'I AGREE' button below it. The car will only start when this button has been pressed.
Is there still an i18n project? I see two local builds, but not the long list of language packs. Are the current i18n groups willing to translate Seamonkey or will this have to be setup completely from scratch? Presumably a Mozilla 1.7 translation can be used as a basis...
I would like to install a Dutch version at work, but I see no mention at all of Seamonkey on the Mozilla-NL site. It is centered around Firefox and Thunderbird these days, but still had a Mozilla 1.8a translation last year.
It doesn't crash so often anymore. I have it running for weeks on end.
I think it is not good to have multiple html rendering engines running in different processes either... in theory they could be shared, but un Firefox/Thunderbird practice this does not seem to happen.
I have magnets from an old IBM 5.25" SCSI drive and they are so powerful that it is very difficult to keep them separated at about 2cm distance. That is not "they would come together" but "you will shout out in pain when you put them on both sides of the palm of your hand"....
Indeed I shattered one by not-so-careful experimentation.
Well, in "Small screen mode" in Opera it actually looks better than I expected. See http://www.uw.nl/ It seems Opera partly follows the stylesheet, partly ignores it, in a way that makes the navigation still usable and the content readable. It amazes me because the site was never designed for this. I know that it does not work on MSIE 4 but I think MSIE version numbering is inconsistent across platforms (MSIE 5 on Mac is different from MSIE 5 on Windows, for example).
Of course there is a problem with this approach. A look at our logs of 2005 says that a whopping 0.03% of our visitors used Windows CE. Maybe I should check for some more signs of a mobile user, and get to the estimated 0.1% figure.
But our website is not mobile-friendly. Those visitors probably were scared away pretty quickly. How can I know what would happen if the site indeed worked for them?
I have difficulty reading the text on Mozilla Seamonkey 1.0b Text partly disappears under features like the author's photograph and the commercial banners.
Is it a mistake in the page's HTML or a bug in Seamonkey that I should report? What do others see?
Like so many "your IP address is..." pages it gives me the outgoing IP address of my provider's proxy server, even though that proxy inserts an "X-Forwarded-for" header.
There are some ways around that stupid "it doesn't reference a hotmail user" filter. Make sure your complaint always includes some hotmail address in the text, even when the actual mail doesn't. Something like "hello abuse@hotmail.com please look at this mail below".
Indeed their spamfilter on the abuse account is very dumb.
But what I don't understand *at all* is why they don't install this spamfilter on the *outgoing* servers of hotmail. That would kill the 419 problem immediately. At least if their filter is somewhat like SpamAssassin.
Now, they are handling the complaints one-by-one, dumping most of them in the trash and handling the remainder so slowly that it is not effective at all.
An outgoing spamfilter or a rate control system should be much more effective than an abusedesk.
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How will that happen? As of now, Windows XP (a prerequisite for this browser) does not even have 60% market share in our website logs...
I agree it will be important to test websites in this new browser; that is why I don't understand why they limit their betas to Microsoft developers. I would like to check that our company website looks OK in MSIE 7 (it renders OK in a standards-compliant browser and has special workarounds for MSIE 5 and 6 bugs). But I am not a Microsoft developer. How do I get a test version?
We have a "Shutdown.job" that does a shutdown when the workstation is idle, at some time after hours. It is installed by default on all workstations unless there is some need for the workstation to remain switched on.
tripwire. I remember a PC project at a bank that used it to check the system daily.
Also remember the times when it was universally accepted that a virus could only spread via bootblocks and programs, and not via datafiles. Datafiles were not code so they never could get executed.
This was first defeated by our friends at M$ who decided it was a good idea to have a macrolanguage in wordprocessor documents. OK, we had to adjust the abovementioned truth only a little bit, because such a document really is a program. Word macroviruses became very widespread.
But the real surprise was when it turned out that even datafiles for programs which did not have any executable features at all could spread viruses...
One of the few applications that still has problems with restricted user accounts (vs. running as administrator all the time) on the network at work is the offline electronic banking application. It assumes full control over the machine. Their helpdesk insists on logging in as an administrator whenever you want to use this program.
Ironic, indeed. Those who we all expect should know about security don't give a d*mn. Probably we overrate the security awareness and knowledge of bank (IT) personnel.
The life of the power supply is not dependent on the amount of regulation it has to do. A typical powersupply will first fail when the electrolytic capacitors have dried out, maybe after 10-15 years of continuous use. If anything can be done to postpone this, it is keeping the supply cool. I.e. have the blower run at full speed and not in "silent" mode, and make sure the airflow is not obsctructed.
Having a UPS makes everything run better and longer.
Depends on your power grid. Until recently, our state-regulated power grid had an MTBF that was above what most UPS units could achieve. I.E. you had more outages due to UPS problems than because of dropped utility power.
Now that we have a competitive utilities market this is rapidly changing (i.i.r.c. downtimes were up by 30% last year).
A single S-ATA drive uses about 10 Watts. Running 12 drives plus the MB on a 300 Watt PS should be no problem. Spin-up is the problem you are talking about. Set the drives to not spin up automatically and let the controller spin them up in succession. That is what the pro's do in their bug arrays as well.
Problem with using commercial boxes at home usually is that they are noisy and burn power like mad.
Many home users want a video streaming server or other background storage that they access a few hours a day. A lowpower board, modern (S-)ATA drives and suitable tuning of powersaving features is often a better solution than a rackmodule with a couple of big fans and whining old SCSI drives that run all day...
I considered buying this raid frame (the base of the enclosure you name) a while ago, but I found out it is a quite old design and the specified datarate is not very high. I bought some drives and attached them using a dumb controller, hoping that a new version will appear sometime soon.
Of course what the RIAA wants to see is a DRM system where you don't buy music media in the store, but you buy the rights to listen to them a certain amount of times, either from the media delivered with the sale of any copies made from it.
So, when you want to copy it to your MP3 player that is fine, but you still need the rights to listen to it, and your player will subtract one for every time you listen to it.
Their ideal situation would be that similar rights are required to listen to the radio or to recordings made from it.
Its a shame that they can't include a dynamic DNS hack into the system.
This is not a matter of what "they" can hack. Most NTP clients do not do a DNS request before every NTP packet they send out, but only resolve the address when initialized and then make queries to a fixed address. That would mean that systems that are not rebooted often would lose contact when your system changes address.
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This is of course not true. It is quite possible to protect your systems against worms and other mishaps like this.
Learn a bit about security and limited user accounts. Make sure that normal users cannot write to directories like %programfiles%, %system% and %windir%. Don't allow users to work as administrator.
Install a service like TrustNoExe. Set it up so that executable programs are only allowed in %programfiles% and %windir% (and other directories that normal users cannot write, and that you use to store programs).
Now, when a user receives a program in mail or downloads it from the internet, it cannot be executed. Storing it somewhere in his writable directories (Documents and Settings directory, networkdrives) is possible but it just cannot be started.
It does not require user education, just an educated administrator.
I imagine that in each such car there will be a big roll of EULA text readable through a tiny window in the dashboard (scrollable by a wheel so that you can read only 4 lines of the text at a time), with an 'I AGREE' button below it. The car will only start when this button has been pressed.
Is there still an i18n project? I see two local builds, but not the long list of language packs.
Are the current i18n groups willing to translate Seamonkey or will this have to be setup completely from scratch?
Presumably a Mozilla 1.7 translation can be used as a basis...
I would like to install a Dutch version at work, but I see no mention at all of Seamonkey on the Mozilla-NL site. It is centered around Firefox and Thunderbird these days, but still had a Mozilla 1.8a translation last year.
It doesn't crash so often anymore. I have it running for weeks on end.
I think it is not good to have multiple html rendering engines running in different processes either... in theory they could be shared, but un Firefox/Thunderbird practice this does not seem to happen.
Seamonkey is just Mozilla 1.8 under a new name.
I have been testing the alpha and beta for some time and have not yet run into incompatabilities.
I have magnets from an old IBM 5.25" SCSI drive and they are so powerful that it is very difficult to keep them separated at about 2cm distance.
That is not "they would come together" but "you will shout out in pain when you put them on both sides of the palm of your hand"....
Indeed I shattered one by not-so-careful experimentation.
Well, in "Small screen mode" in Opera it actually looks better than I expected. See http://www.uw.nl/
It seems Opera partly follows the stylesheet, partly ignores it, in a way that makes the navigation still usable and the content readable.
It amazes me because the site was never designed for this.
I know that it does not work on MSIE 4 but I think MSIE version numbering is inconsistent across platforms (MSIE 5 on Mac is different from MSIE 5 on Windows, for example).
Of course there is a problem with this approach.
A look at our logs of 2005 says that a whopping 0.03% of our visitors used Windows CE. Maybe I should check for some more signs of a mobile user, and get to the estimated 0.1% figure.
But our website is not mobile-friendly. Those visitors probably were scared away pretty quickly. How can I know what would happen if the site indeed worked for them?
Just today I noticed a visitor with this browser string:
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.01; Windows CE; PPC; 240x320)
No idea what he/she will actually see. Our site does not even support MSIE 4 anymore. But MSIE 4 on CE may be different?
We had 0.03% Windows CE visitors last year. I don't think I'll spend time on that.
Last year a TV documentary on Dutch TV was shown, claiming that the number of children with autism in the Eindhoven area (home of Philips) is twice the average.e k&a=164101
http://www.netwerk.tv/index.jsp?p=items&r=deze_we
Interesting: they have fixed it. It now looks OK.
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Maybe they read
I have difficulty reading the text on Mozilla Seamonkey 1.0b
Text partly disappears under features like the author's photograph and the commercial banners.
Is it a mistake in the page's HTML or a bug in Seamonkey that I should report?
What do others see?
Like so many "your IP address is..." pages it gives me the outgoing IP address of my provider's proxy server, even though that proxy inserts an "X-Forwarded-for" header.
There are some ways around that stupid "it doesn't reference a hotmail user" filter. Make sure your complaint always includes some hotmail address in the text, even when the actual mail doesn't. Something like "hello abuse@hotmail.com please look at this mail below".
Indeed their spamfilter on the abuse account is very dumb.
But what I don't understand *at all* is why they don't install this spamfilter on the *outgoing* servers of hotmail.
That would kill the 419 problem immediately. At least if their filter is somewhat like SpamAssassin.
Now, they are handling the complaints one-by-one, dumping most of them in the trash and handling the remainder so slowly that it is not effective at all.
An outgoing spamfilter or a rate control system should be much more effective than an abusedesk.
How will that happen? As of now, Windows XP (a prerequisite for this browser) does not even have 60% market share in our website logs...
I agree it will be important to test websites in this new browser; that is why I don't understand why they limit their betas to Microsoft developers.
I would like to check that our company website looks OK in MSIE 7 (it renders OK in a standards-compliant browser and has special workarounds for MSIE 5 and 6 bugs). But I am not a Microsoft developer. How do I get a test version?
We have a "Shutdown.job" that does a shutdown when the workstation is idle, at some time after hours.
It is installed by default on all workstations unless there is some need for the workstation to remain switched on.
tripwire. I remember a PC project at a bank that used it to check the system daily.
Also remember the times when it was universally accepted that a virus could only spread via bootblocks and programs, and not via datafiles. Datafiles were not code so they never could get executed.
This was first defeated by our friends at M$ who decided it was a good idea to have a macrolanguage in wordprocessor documents.
OK, we had to adjust the abovementioned truth only a little bit, because such a document really is a program. Word macroviruses became very widespread.
But the real surprise was when it turned out that even datafiles for programs which did not have any executable features at all could spread viruses...
One of the few applications that still has problems with restricted user accounts (vs. running as administrator all the time) on the network at work is the offline electronic banking application. It assumes full control over the machine. Their helpdesk insists on logging in as an administrator whenever you want to use this program.
Ironic, indeed. Those who we all expect should know about security don't give a d*mn.
Probably we overrate the security awareness and knowledge of bank (IT) personnel.
The life of the power supply is not dependent on the amount of regulation it has to do.
A typical powersupply will first fail when the electrolytic capacitors have dried out, maybe after 10-15 years of continuous use.
If anything can be done to postpone this, it is keeping the supply cool. I.e. have the blower run at full speed and not in "silent" mode, and make sure the airflow is not obsctructed.
Having a UPS makes everything run better and longer.
Depends on your power grid. Until recently, our state-regulated power grid had an MTBF that was above what most UPS units could achieve. I.E. you had more outages due to UPS problems than because of dropped utility power.
Now that we have a competitive utilities market this is rapidly changing (i.i.r.c. downtimes were up by 30% last year).
A single S-ATA drive uses about 10 Watts. Running 12 drives plus the MB on a 300 Watt PS should be no problem.
Spin-up is the problem you are talking about. Set the drives to not spin up automatically and let the controller spin them up in succession.
That is what the pro's do in their bug arrays as well.
Problem with using commercial boxes at home usually is that they are noisy and burn power like mad.
Many home users want a video streaming server or other background storage that they access a few hours a day.
A lowpower board, modern (S-)ATA drives and suitable tuning of powersaving features is often a better solution than a rackmodule with a couple of big fans and whining old SCSI drives that run all day...
I considered buying this raid frame (the base of the enclosure you name) a while ago, but I found out it is a quite old design and the specified datarate is not very high. I bought some drives and attached them using a dumb controller, hoping that a new version will appear sometime soon.
Of course what the RIAA wants to see is a DRM system where you don't buy music media in the store, but you buy the rights to listen to them a certain amount of times, either from the media delivered with the sale of any copies made from it.
So, when you want to copy it to your MP3 player that is fine, but you still need the rights to listen to it, and your player will subtract one for every time you listen to it.
Their ideal situation would be that similar rights are required to listen to the radio or to recordings made from it.
Its a shame that they can't include a dynamic DNS hack into the system.
This is not a matter of what "they" can hack. Most NTP clients do not do a DNS request before every NTP packet they send out, but only resolve the address when initialized and then make queries to a fixed address.
That would mean that systems that are not rebooted often would lose contact when your system changes address.