an elephant gun... isnt very high powered compared to say, the common AK47 because it's a larger bullet traveling at a lower speed
Let's have a look at that...
Standard "elephant gun" cartridges include: Rigby Magnum - a 26 gram bullet with a muzzle velocity of 700 m/s .460 Weatherby Magnum - a 32g bullet with a muzzle velocity of 790 m/s produces over 8000 foot pounds of energy Nitro Express variants - the.700 being a massive 65g bullet with a muzzle velocity of 600 m/s, producing nearly 9000 foot pounds of energy at the muzzle
Whereas assault rifles tend to use cartridges of a much smaller caliber and lighter loads e.g.
The Russian AK47 uses a 7.62x39mm M43 round - a 7.92g bullet, with a muzzle velocity of 710 m/s, producing nearly 1500 foot pounds of energy)
The US M16 and variants use a 5.56x45mm NATO round - a 3.95-5.18g round with a muzzle velocity of 772-930 m/s producing ~ 1250-1350 foot pounds of energy at the muzzle.
So - saying that the AK47 (or any other assault rifle) is more powerful than an elephant gun is just wrong.
Download "Windows Genuine Advantage Validation Tool" and install this. If you have a pirated copy of XP, it will tell you that your serial is not valid, give you a link to a website where you can buy a legit copy and block you from accessing Windows update manually. From then on - you can set automatic updates to do whatever you want (although as you have a pirated copy - it would be worth while setting to "download, but do not install". Update will tell you when you have *security* updates available, but won't install them until you have reviewed them. It will be worth your while *NOT* installing KB905474 - the "Windows Genuine Advantage Notification Tool". This is the piece of software which reminds you - I think every hour, but I don't know, as I have a genuine copy of XP (as my secondary OS, linux is my primary) - that you do not have a valid copy of XP... but even this is very easy to bypass if you realise how it works and what it does.
Also - there are very easy ways around WPA (for gaining access to IE7 and Media Player updates).
Can you use autopatcher + nLite in tandem? I want to use nLite to customize my windows cd by installing all the applications I use automatically. I want to use autopatcher to apply the updates. How do I do this, what I just said?
You can, but you have to install autopatcher first (I would imagine on the build that you're going to create the "nLitened" install disk), then navigate to the program directory and manually copy the hotfixes (which are in individual folders for each hotfix...) to a suitable single directory location. It will be much easier with this script, though - as they will already be in one location.
You can also add whatever application you want to the $OEM$ folder and create a batch to run them on first boot, but you'll most likely have to remove some of the components from the original cd if you want to put a few things on there (languages and keyboard layouts are best - you'll get about 80 MB). You can of course use one of the presets, but I wouldn't recommend this. I used the "safe" preset once, added my drivers and hotfixes and it removed my IDE drivers - so even though it installed from cd, when I booted into Windows (I only have SCSI and SATA HDs), I had no CD/DVD drives!!!
I wonder what Microsoft thinks about this, right now I'm downloading updates that I wouldn't be able to get since I don't use a legal version of their software.
That's plain retarded.
You are able to download security updates from windows update even with a pirated copy and always have been. Hell - you could even use the Devil's own serial key to download security updates, as long as you use automatic updates. WGA just prevents pirated copies going to Windows Update manually and downloading non-security related updates (IE7 or WMP upgrades for example).
This tool is useful for users who want to slipstream these hotfixes into their install disks. If you don't want to slipstream / don't know how - use autopatcher or a similar product. This isn't rocket science.
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There was a Winamp 4, but it was so shit, they released winamp 5 shortly after and glossed over the fact.
It's not "elitist... bullshit" - the devs obviously don't have it to a level that they are happy releasing it at as a fully completed package - you've said yourself that it crashes from time to time. The 0.0.1 upgrade is just giving them plenty of room for improvement before they release it as 1.0. OK - so they're perfectionists - is that really a problem? Is it not better that they want to release fully tested programs? The fact that it's being released as a 0.x version at all is because the devs thought the OSS community could do with the functionality (albeit buggy functionality) of this program and I would agree - because it is this popular and it's still only at 0.8.6 just goes to show that the community agree.
What's the specs of your machine? I've never had a problem with Matroska files, with the exception of on my laptop. The mkv package format is more complex than (for example) avi and takes more procesing power/ram - which might be why you find it skips at action scenes (there is more data being processed at these times).
For reference, btw - my desktop is an Athlon XP 2500+ Mobile (clocked @ 233*12) with 1GB RAM, my laptop is a p3 650 with 128 MB RAM, running W2k.
On the laptop I tried various players/codec packs and found that MPlayer, running the command line version (not the gui version) works a treat with mkv's. Simply add
to the file handler command and you'll have "point and click" opening of mkv files. I did this via the registry, but it can be done from Folder Options --> File Types.
Checking the temperature of a piece of metal you were forging with your eye? That would sting a fair bit... and how did they manage to continue working after that?!
I'm not arguing that this is commercially available (or even viable) - I am arguing that it is possible.
> There's a lot of theory out there, but no proof. That's because recovery of remanent data is impossible in practice.
That is complete nonsense. This has been done many times at CMU (and I would imagine at other universities, also) - and the results have been published, the first which springs to mind is Geiger & Cranor, 2005.
My father has on many occasions mentioned how, after he dies, he would like to have the funeral ceremony, then, everyone hits the pub - taking the coffin with us, standing it up in the bar (open or not, our choice!) and having a final drink with him!!
Or if you don't believe Wikipedia, how about one from the Dept of Computer science at Auckland University
I'm sure that if you even spent 5 minutes on Google, you would find plenty of evidence to support what I've just said. So get your facts straight instead of trolling about something you blatantly know nothing about.
It depends what you want it to do - WD-40 is a penetrating oil. Penetrating oils have many uses, one of which is a lubricant for seized parts. In this use, it is very effective, however, it is not a good general purpose lubricant, due to the high content of volatile solvents - which is why it can be used to clean oil off a surface - although this is not ideal either, because of the oil content of the product.
I believe you're correct... Isn't this an effect of magnetic remanence or something along those lines?
You are absolutely correct there - with specialist equipment, data can easily be recovered, unless measures are taken to prevent this (I believe that the standard is to overwrite the HDD with 0s, then with 1s, then a random pattern, reverse the random pattern, then a new random pattern and reverse it. The idea is that the data which is written to the disk has to have a certain distance between the tracks (the distance varies, depending on the level of tech involved) - so that the bits do not interfere with bits in the track beside it (can you imagine what would happen if an HDD manufacturer came out with an ultra high density HDD where all the data was effectively erased after a certain period of time?). When data is written to a disk, it is not written just on the track, it spreads a little due to the nature of the medium. It is entirely possible to recover this data - providing that you have the equipment to do so.
The most common issue I've dealt with is jr techs deleting user profiles off xp boxes to "fix" something without first determining if there is any sensitive data in "my documents." Yes, generally -- although we tell users to put important stuff on network drives -- there are docs there that carry weight....
Get them to rename the folders instead.
Earlier in the year, I heard of a user who had aquired local admin rights on her pc (I can only assume one of the dts guys had forgotten to remove it after some work) and in an attempt to "tidy up a bit" had partially deleted the winnt folder... I would love to be able to roll these these out to my users
He took the thing apart, apparently, and ran all pieces through the industrial dish washer -- all the but the harddrive. He let dry thoroughly, put all back together, and it worked. We were dumb-founded....
Yup, worked for me also when one of mine died. Put it in the freezer for a day, then back into the pc. Lasted long enough to get the data I needed off it.
Well, I did read about an old geezer (in his sixties, IIRC) and his wife who managed to get an honorary mention in the Darwin awards - he was (probably) bald or balding and was attempting to jump off the top of the cupboard on top of his wife, who was tied up on the bed... unfortunately, he fell through the top of the cupboard, breaking both legs.
That would have been an interesting one to tell the grandkids...
You're missing the point. In real life situations - USB 2.0 will read at about 20 MB/s (although the maximum is 60 - but that only happens in a lab...) standard HDDs are much faster than that...
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Let's have a look at that...
Standard "elephant gun" cartridges include:
Rigby Magnum - a 26 gram bullet with a muzzle velocity of 700 m/s
Nitro Express variants - the
Whereas assault rifles tend to use cartridges of a much smaller caliber and lighter loads e.g.
The Russian AK47 uses a 7.62x39mm M43 round - a 7.92g bullet, with a muzzle velocity of 710 m/s, producing nearly 1500 foot pounds of energy)
The US M16 and variants use a 5.56x45mm NATO round - a 3.95-5.18g round with a muzzle velocity of 772-930 m/s producing ~ 1250-1350 foot pounds of energy at the muzzle.
So - saying that the AK47 (or any other assault rifle) is more powerful than an elephant gun is just wrong.
> I don't know about you or the GP, but mine is always at, or greater than, 250 psi.
Whoa, dude - slacken that off a bit - If it's too tight to your head, it just works as a transmitter!!
So is a PNAS editor a bit like a fluffer?
Again, I would have to disagree with you:
Download "Windows Genuine Advantage Validation Tool" and install this. If you have a pirated copy of XP, it will tell you that your serial is not valid, give you a link to a website where you can buy a legit copy and block you from accessing Windows update manually. From then on - you can set automatic updates to do whatever you want (although as you have a pirated copy - it would be worth while setting to "download, but do not install". Update will tell you when you have *security* updates available, but won't install them until you have reviewed them. It will be worth your while *NOT* installing KB905474 - the "Windows Genuine Advantage Notification Tool". This is the piece of software which reminds you - I think every hour, but I don't know, as I have a genuine copy of XP (as my secondary OS, linux is my primary) - that you do not have a valid copy of XP... but even this is very easy to bypass if you realise how it works and what it does.
Also - there are very easy ways around WPA (for gaining access to IE7 and Media Player updates).
You can, but you have to install autopatcher first (I would imagine on the build that you're going to create the "nLitened" install disk), then navigate to the program directory and manually copy the hotfixes (which are in individual folders for each hotfix...) to a suitable single directory location. It will be much easier with this script, though - as they will already be in one location.
You can also add whatever application you want to the $OEM$ folder and create a batch to run them on first boot, but you'll most likely have to remove some of the components from the original cd if you want to put a few things on there (languages and keyboard layouts are best - you'll get about 80 MB). You can of course use one of the presets, but I wouldn't recommend this. I used the "safe" preset once, added my drivers and hotfixes and it removed my IDE drivers - so even though it installed from cd, when I booted into Windows (I only have SCSI and SATA HDs), I had no CD/DVD drives!!!
That's plain retarded.
You are able to download security updates from windows update even with a pirated copy and always have been. Hell - you could even use the Devil's own serial key to download security updates, as long as you use automatic updates. WGA just prevents pirated copies going to Windows Update manually and downloading non-security related updates (IE7 or WMP upgrades for example).
This tool is useful for users who want to slipstream these hotfixes into their install disks. If you don't want to slipstream / don't know how - use autopatcher or a similar product. This isn't rocket science.
ROFL!!!
> ...was idiotic, same with Winamp 3 -> Winamp 5.
There was a Winamp 4, but it was so shit, they released winamp 5 shortly after and glossed over the fact.
It's not "elitist... bullshit" - the devs obviously don't have it to a level that they are happy releasing it at as a fully completed package - you've said yourself that it crashes from time to time. The 0.0.1 upgrade is just giving them plenty of room for improvement before they release it as 1.0. OK - so they're perfectionists - is that really a problem? Is it not better that they want to release fully tested programs? The fact that it's being released as a 0.x version at all is because the devs thought the OSS community could do with the functionality (albeit buggy functionality) of this program and I would agree - because it is this popular and it's still only at 0.8.6 just goes to show that the community agree.
What's the specs of your machine? I've never had a problem with Matroska files, with the exception of on my laptop. The mkv package format is more complex than (for example) avi and takes more procesing power/ram - which might be why you find it skips at action scenes (there is more data being processed at these times).
For reference, btw - my desktop is an Athlon XP 2500+ Mobile (clocked @ 233*12) with 1GB RAM, my laptop is a p3 650 with 128 MB RAM, running W2k.
On the laptop I tried various players/codec packs and found that MPlayer, running the command line version (not the gui version) works a treat with mkv's. Simply add
"%wherever_you_installed_mplayer%\mplayer -slang eng" "%t"
to the file handler command and you'll have "point and click" opening of mkv files. I did this via the registry, but it can be done from Folder Options --> File Types.
Hmmm... Let me guess - the "dos" commands say something like
./configure
#
# make
# make install
?
It sounds like you might have downloaded source code (no zip; had to open it in rar...)
The source has the extension ".tar.gz" or ".tar.bz2" and will be fairly useless to you, whilst running Windows.
It might be a good idea to download the Windows executable installer if you're running Windows...
ROFL! how did this get +1, Informative!!
Checking the temperature of a piece of metal you were forging with your eye? That would sting a fair bit... and how did they manage to continue working after that?!
I'm not arguing that this is commercially available (or even viable) - I am arguing that it is possible.
> There's a lot of theory out there, but no proof. That's because recovery of remanent data is impossible in practice.
That is complete nonsense. This has been done many times at CMU (and I would imagine at other universities, also) - and the results have been published, the first which springs to mind is Geiger & Cranor, 2005.
My father has on many occasions mentioned how, after he dies, he would like to have the funeral ceremony, then, everyone hits the pub - taking the coffin with us, standing it up in the bar (open or not, our choice!) and having a final drink with him!!
I've always been dubious about his sanity...
For people who actually speak English, yes...
Really?
Or if you don't believe Wikipedia, how about one from the Dept of Computer science at Auckland University I'm sure that if you even spent 5 minutes on Google, you would find plenty of evidence to support what I've just said. So get your facts straight instead of trolling about something you blatantly know nothing about.
WD-40 is not a lubricant
It depends what you want it to do - WD-40 is a penetrating oil. Penetrating oils have many uses, one of which is a lubricant for seized parts. In this use, it is very effective, however, it is not a good general purpose lubricant, due to the high content of volatile solvents - which is why it can be used to clean oil off a surface - although this is not ideal either, because of the oil content of the product.
You are absolutely correct there - with specialist equipment, data can easily be recovered, unless measures are taken to prevent this (I believe that the standard is to overwrite the HDD with 0s, then with 1s, then a random pattern, reverse the random pattern, then a new random pattern and reverse it. The idea is that the data which is written to the disk has to have a certain distance between the tracks (the distance varies, depending on the level of tech involved) - so that the bits do not interfere with bits in the track beside it (can you imagine what would happen if an HDD manufacturer came out with an ultra high density HDD where all the data was effectively erased after a certain period of time?). When data is written to a disk, it is not written just on the track, it spreads a little due to the nature of the medium. It is entirely possible to recover this data - providing that you have the equipment to do so.
Worked for me, too, but I've never had the need to do it in a professional environment.
Get them to rename the folders instead.
Earlier in the year, I heard of a user who had aquired local admin rights on her pc (I can only assume one of the dts guys had forgotten to remove it after some work) and in an attempt to "tidy up a bit" had partially deleted the winnt folder... I would love to be able to roll these these out to my users
ROFLMAO!!
Yup, worked for me also when one of mine died. Put it in the freezer for a day, then back into the pc. Lasted long enough to get the data I needed off it.
Well, I did read about an old geezer (in his sixties, IIRC) and his wife who managed to get an honorary mention in the Darwin awards - he was (probably) bald or balding and was attempting to jump off the top of the cupboard on top of his wife, who was tied up on the bed... unfortunately, he fell through the top of the cupboard, breaking both legs.
That would have been an interesting one to tell the grandkids...
I always said there was something fundamentally wrong with the universe.
If I had mod points - you'd be getting modded "+1 Insightful"
You're missing the point. In real life situations - USB 2.0 will read at about 20 MB/s (although the maximum is 60 - but that only happens in a lab...) standard HDDs are much faster than that...