Backwards compatibility on my DVD drive allows me to read CDs, but not only because they're the same standard size. The mini CDs (for example, three inch ones), used for promotional purposes and such, read just beautifully in most drives, regardless of their smaller size. In the same way, an HVD drive would theoretically read not only larger HVDs, but also the slightly smaller CD/DVDs as well.
Nice assumption about rich stay-at-home moms, but my family had five children, my mother stayed at home, and we lived below the poverty line. I think that's more typical than the rich "busy-body do-gooders". Sorry to burst your own little self-righteous bubble.
However, it would be horable for our economy. As they start to give away anti-virus/spy-ware software, that eliminates a multibillion dollar industry.
They DO give it away. Spybot is entirely free, and Ad-Aware has a (wonderful) free version as well. And yet the paid spyware protection industry still lives on. This reminds me of all the pipe dreams of Linux growing to such a point that Microsoft will perish completely. It's not going to happen, because enough people will keep paying enough money to keep it alive and well.
Generally now the term is not restricted to Unix based operating systems, as tools that perform a similar set of tasks now exist for non-Unix operating systems such as Microsoft Windows (even though such operating systems may not have a "root" account).
I work in the IT department at my college, and in the last week, have encountered two machines infected with this worm. Easily detected as it may be to the expert user, it is a rootkit, hiding from detection. If I had not recognized it, it would have been undetected, as the automated scanning tools did not report it.
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Backwards compatibility on my DVD drive allows me to read CDs, but not only because they're the same standard size. The mini CDs (for example, three inch ones), used for promotional purposes and such, read just beautifully in most drives, regardless of their smaller size. In the same way, an HVD drive would theoretically read not only larger HVDs, but also the slightly smaller CD/DVDs as well.
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Nice assumption about rich stay-at-home moms, but my family had five children, my mother stayed at home, and we lived below the poverty line. I think that's more typical than the rich "busy-body do-gooders". Sorry to burst your own little self-righteous bubble.
And after all the money I spent on these? Sigh...
However, it would be horable for our economy. As they start to give away anti-virus/spy-ware software, that eliminates a multibillion dollar industry.
They DO give it away. Spybot is entirely free, and Ad-Aware has a (wonderful) free version as well. And yet the paid spyware protection industry still lives on. This reminds me of all the pipe dreams of Linux growing to such a point that Microsoft will perish completely. It's not going to happen, because enough people will keep paying enough money to keep it alive and well.
According to the Slashdotter's god, Wikipedia:
Generally now the term is not restricted to Unix based operating systems, as tools that perform a similar set of tasks now exist for non-Unix operating systems such as Microsoft Windows (even though such operating systems may not have a "root" account).
I work in the IT department at my college, and in the last week, have encountered two machines infected with this worm. Easily detected as it may be to the expert user, it is a rootkit, hiding from detection. If I had not recognized it, it would have been undetected, as the automated scanning tools did not report it.
and landed in kansas...would it make a sound?
Depends...is anyone there to hear it?
DNS used for everything else, including kitchen sink
I've always used Firefox for my kitchen sink, but to each his own.