Geocities was a haven for malware. Antivirus alerts from Geocities were getting frequent. After investigating I found these were bogus results from search engines trying to get users to visit the free hosted malware. I blocked all access at the firewall seven years ago and out of hundreds of users, only once was access needed. They used the cached Google page. Am I the only one that thinks Geocities was an out-of-control crapware hosting service?
I don't understand. Aren't these 2D representations of 3D images? I may be ignorant and you could explain until you're blue, but I'm pretty certain that my monitor is incapable of displaying any 3 dimensional objects. You can't fool me; those are 2D images with some shading thrown in. The next image of the plane is the same image at a different angle with different shading. If I convert these images to 2 bit to remove the shading then spin them around, they will look very similar. I convert crap like this to 2 bit all the time to OCR it. Will this fool the Russians spreading malware? Enlighten me.
I work with a lot of labs and the errors are always caused by the lab technician. Controls and variances are standard procedure to identify Wal-Mart grade results. From my experience, the less you pay a lab tech, the more mistakes they make, but there are exceptions, like trying to find an honest cop. I'm sure there's one or two, maybe.
At work I name them S1, S2, S3, etc... But I only have a like a dozen, so it's easy to remember and it makes life surprisingly easy, especially in scripts. I remember colleagues at another company wanting to use Baskin Robbins flavors because we had 31 servers. At home I use the moons of Saturn, which can be very descriptive; Atlas, AtlasI, AtlasII, Hyperion, Prometheus, Titan, Calypso, etc... I once a Director who wanted to use Massachusetts lighthouses. Can you imagine your servers named Annisquam, Straitsmouth, Gloucester, Monomoy, Tarpaulin, and Billingsgate?
Many Microsoft screw ups could be managed by changing its default settings, but unfortunately Windows caters to Grandmothers who can't follow complicated instructions such as go to run, type d:\start.exe, much less mount/dev/hdc -t iso9660 -r/cdrom, or sudo apt-get install omgponies. What really pisses me off is that the simple tools for managing common system administration is not even included with the home version, which is the version that needs the admin tools because it is more likely to be infected due to the default settings. The group policy editor is how you should disable autorun, but it isn't included with XP Home. If it were included it would be more like XP Pro, which should be their lowest version. They should have an XP tech version that allows you to increase TCP connections, and import policies without Active Directory, and allow more that 10 SMB connections, and be able to update other XP boxen with its own installed Windows patches. Oh well, at least I don't always have to tell my Mom to find My Computer, then the D Drive, which she cannot do. I just tell her to insert the damn disc. So what's my solution to this whole fiasco? ESET Nod32. Pay for it and update it. It's not perfect, but what is?
I frequently use Linux and XP for downloading over cable (cox) and my results are always similar. I'm suspicious that anything could get 22Mbps on a 12Mbps line.
I'm ragging on people who expect Win7 beta to be bullet-proof then mention Kubuntu in the same post. If you want me to take you seriously, don't advertise a Linux distro while critiquing Windows. You like Linux, I get it. You could have been impartial in your observations that Microsoft doesn't have their act together, yet you chose to troll. Well, it worked. You caught me. I regret feeding you and humbly ask forgiveness from the/. community.
His antivirus software doesn't work in a beta version of an unsupported OS? He should contact Kaspersky and complain. Maybe he can get his money back. I have b7000 running on a P4 2.8 (800MHz FSB) with 1 GB RAM and it performs pretty well. No crashes at all, but I'm throwing various hardware at it, not software. It really likes multiple video cards with multiple monitors on each card. The only slowdown I saw was opening the event log. The new event log is so bloated that it acts just like Vista. YMMV.
Actually natural selection has given us the ability to control our astrological destiny. Trusting our destiny to the UN is, of course, ludicrous. We would have better odds selling Asteroid Survival Kits at Radio Shack. What we should do is give money to universities to have students come up with survival ideas for better grades. Masters applicants need more thesis ideas anyway. How about rather than trying to stop an asteroid that conjures up images of Bruce Willis dying for a cause, create ships that can sustain life to hover the earth until the scorching is complete. Fly back down and repopulate. A temporary moon base perhaps? I always enjoyed a good episode of Space 1999. If you can't afford the space ticket my nephew sells bomb shelters (seriously). Relax, it's just an idea. I never did get that masters degree in Asteroid Manipulation.
You are correct. A skilled admin should have everything scripted to last a few months without error. If I took 2 weeks off, no one would miss me short of a hardware failure or ball lightening in the server room. Three months is just about when someone needs a password removed from a pdf file. When they call to price out that service, they will gladly offer me my job back. The short term desktop fixes are ignored when you take a few weeks off. Take a year off. When they get a price on fixing the RAID 5 on the Oracle database server due to multiple HDD failure, they will gladly triple your paycheck. FYI, replace bad disks, scrub disks, then restore from backup. No backup? Whaaa?
This was done in the mid 90s. It was the Tectrix Virtual Reality bike. They ran on a Pentium 75. If They were a big hit but too expensive for the type of people that both working out and gaming.
Push email is actually very important when there are donuts in the break room. When you alert everyone they all get the email at the same time and no one gets left out of the Monday morning cofee and donuts feeding frenzy (gotta be fast to get the eclairs, though).
True, but a scarce few of the funny posts are just too damn good to miss. Where else would I learn about RFC 2324? Or find links to Emily Postnews to get authoritive answers to my really important questions?
Basically most people are saying what they think about the thing, or telling what they think through humor
Which I find overly predictable. Although the topics may be news for nerds or stuff that matters, the discussions are only karma whoring, Microsoft bashing, and +5 funny. I'm frustrated because Slashdot used to be filled with posts from engineers. Slashdot used to be the Scientific American of discussion groups. Now it's like Digg only geared towards Microsoft bashing rather than the Apple fan site that is iDigg. I understand that people don't like Microsoft, I just find it more difficult each day searching though the +5 funny or the M$ posts trying to find the intelligent content of days past.
I was thinking that this pulls computing out of the display. It even pulls computing out of the touch part. You could have a chip in your pocket that the system reads and transforms any room you walk into a themed 60s room. You could have it detect people in a theatre so when they stand up the movie display correctly on them so they don't block your view. You could eliminate flexible screens and flexible paper by displaying on a recognizable material, recognized by the manner in which it is held. I could get on the subway and read the New York Times on a napkin because my thumb and forefinger are positioned correctly. Board meetings would never be the same. No more projectors, no more passing out stapled reports. Although very rudimentary, this is a step towards developing a holodeck. I was most impressed by the ability to track gestures at a distance. This is a giant leap towards eliminating the mouse and keyboard. Screw the touch screen. I want the computer to interpret anything I touch. Did you watch the demonstration?
Is there another Slashdot that has intellectual people exchanging intelligent ideas about new products and developments in society? I would very much like to visit that site. This one seems to be the karma whoring, Microsoft bashing, +5 funny site. It is very boring and predictable. TIA.
I'm very suspicious about your story. You say the spam stopped after three months? I've been running corporate email systems since 1997 and I've learned that once you are on a spam list, it may slow down, but I've never seen it stop. I still respond user unknown 550 to addresses that have not accepted email in 11 years.
Sure, you get to keep the copyright, but after we use your material for our own purposes you will have to take us to court to prove you own the copyright. This is what happens when you use an over the wire service, be it an ASP model EMR or your cable provider reading your email. It is not private and this TOS proves it.
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I like having my data on my hard drives on my backup discs. You can keep you Web 3.0 crap.
They had never asked me for permission to do that.
Bullshit. I used to work for BofA and they explicitly state that they will do that. If they did not and it actually happened they would be getting sued left and right. Read the fine print. Banks rarely do anything without discloser. They have many lawyers just to write that fine print.
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Geocities was a haven for malware. Antivirus alerts from Geocities were getting frequent. After investigating I found these were bogus results from search engines trying to get users to visit the free hosted malware. I blocked all access at the firewall seven years ago and out of hundreds of users, only once was access needed. They used the cached Google page. Am I the only one that thinks Geocities was an out-of-control crapware hosting service?
I don't understand. Aren't these 2D representations of 3D images? I may be ignorant and you could explain until you're blue, but I'm pretty certain that my monitor is incapable of displaying any 3 dimensional objects. You can't fool me; those are 2D images with some shading thrown in. The next image of the plane is the same image at a different angle with different shading. If I convert these images to 2 bit to remove the shading then spin them around, they will look very similar. I convert crap like this to 2 bit all the time to OCR it. Will this fool the Russians spreading malware? Enlighten me.
I work with a lot of labs and the errors are always caused by the lab technician. Controls and variances are standard procedure to identify Wal-Mart grade results. From my experience, the less you pay a lab tech, the more mistakes they make, but there are exceptions, like trying to find an honest cop. I'm sure there's one or two, maybe.
At work I name them S1, S2, S3, etc... But I only have a like a dozen, so it's easy to remember and it makes life surprisingly easy, especially in scripts. I remember colleagues at another company wanting to use Baskin Robbins flavors because we had 31 servers. At home I use the moons of Saturn, which can be very descriptive; Atlas, AtlasI, AtlasII, Hyperion, Prometheus, Titan, Calypso, etc... I once a Director who wanted to use Massachusetts lighthouses. Can you imagine your servers named Annisquam, Straitsmouth, Gloucester, Monomoy, Tarpaulin, and Billingsgate?
Many Microsoft screw ups could be managed by changing its default settings, but unfortunately Windows caters to Grandmothers who can't follow complicated instructions such as go to run, type d:\start.exe, much less mount /dev/hdc -t iso9660 -r /cdrom, or sudo apt-get install omgponies. What really pisses me off is that the simple tools for managing common system administration is not even included with the home version, which is the version that needs the admin tools because it is more likely to be infected due to the default settings. The group policy editor is how you should disable autorun, but it isn't included with XP Home. If it were included it would be more like XP Pro, which should be their lowest version. They should have an XP tech version that allows you to increase TCP connections, and import policies without Active Directory, and allow more that 10 SMB connections, and be able to update other XP boxen with its own installed Windows patches. Oh well, at least I don't always have to tell my Mom to find My Computer, then the D Drive, which she cannot do. I just tell her to insert the damn disc. So what's my solution to this whole fiasco? ESET Nod32. Pay for it and update it. It's not perfect, but what is?
I frequently use Linux and XP for downloading over cable (cox) and my results are always similar. I'm suspicious that anything could get 22Mbps on a 12Mbps line.
I'm ragging on people who expect Win7 beta to be bullet-proof then mention Kubuntu in the same post. If you want me to take you seriously, don't advertise a Linux distro while critiquing Windows. You like Linux, I get it. You could have been impartial in your observations that Microsoft doesn't have their act together, yet you chose to troll. Well, it worked. You caught me. I regret feeding you and humbly ask forgiveness from the /. community.
I understand that it may be recommended, but why do you think it is certified? Do you have a link to certified Kaspersky software for Win7?
His antivirus software doesn't work in a beta version of an unsupported OS? He should contact Kaspersky and complain. Maybe he can get his money back. I have b7000 running on a P4 2.8 (800MHz FSB) with 1 GB RAM and it performs pretty well. No crashes at all, but I'm throwing various hardware at it, not software. It really likes multiple video cards with multiple monitors on each card. The only slowdown I saw was opening the event log. The new event log is so bloated that it acts just like Vista. YMMV.
Actually natural selection has given us the ability to control our astrological destiny. Trusting our destiny to the UN is, of course, ludicrous. We would have better odds selling Asteroid Survival Kits at Radio Shack. What we should do is give money to universities to have students come up with survival ideas for better grades. Masters applicants need more thesis ideas anyway. How about rather than trying to stop an asteroid that conjures up images of Bruce Willis dying for a cause, create ships that can sustain life to hover the earth until the scorching is complete. Fly back down and repopulate. A temporary moon base perhaps? I always enjoyed a good episode of Space 1999. If you can't afford the space ticket my nephew sells bomb shelters (seriously). Relax, it's just an idea. I never did get that masters degree in Asteroid Manipulation.
You are correct. A skilled admin should have everything scripted to last a few months without error. If I took 2 weeks off, no one would miss me short of a hardware failure or ball lightening in the server room. Three months is just about when someone needs a password removed from a pdf file. When they call to price out that service, they will gladly offer me my job back. The short term desktop fixes are ignored when you take a few weeks off. Take a year off. When they get a price on fixing the RAID 5 on the Oracle database server due to multiple HDD failure, they will gladly triple your paycheck. FYI, replace bad disks, scrub disks, then restore from backup. No backup? Whaaa?
http://tulrich.com/tectrixvr/
Push email is actually very important when there are donuts in the break room. When you alert everyone they all get the email at the same time and no one gets left out of the Monday morning cofee and donuts feeding frenzy (gotta be fast to get the eclairs, though).
http://foo.ewu.edu/jefu/other/netiquette/emily-postnews.html
Any would be a good start.
Basically most people are saying what they think about the thing, or telling what they think through humor
Which I find overly predictable. Although the topics may be news for nerds or stuff that matters, the discussions are only karma whoring, Microsoft bashing, and +5 funny. I'm frustrated because Slashdot used to be filled with posts from engineers. Slashdot used to be the Scientific American of discussion groups. Now it's like Digg only geared towards Microsoft bashing rather than the Apple fan site that is iDigg. I understand that people don't like Microsoft, I just find it more difficult each day searching though the +5 funny or the M$ posts trying to find the intelligent content of days past.
Linux Rocks! There... Mod me up.
http://research.microsoft.com/sendev/video/SecondLight.wmv
I'll get modded into oblivion. It is taboo to speak imaginatively and positively about a Microsoft product on Slashdot.
Is there another Slashdot that has intellectual people exchanging intelligent ideas about new products and developments in society? I would very much like to visit that site. This one seems to be the karma whoring, Microsoft bashing, +5 funny site. It is very boring and predictable. TIA.
Mine does. Vista 64.
Have you ever seen this? http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2008-1673
So you never saw this? http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?execution=e3s1
Unfortunately, as historical data reveals, there is a slight chance this will help catch more criminals but it will not reduce crime.
I was hoping the hardware schematics used no brainer diagrams like Ikea furniture. I wanted to build one today.
I'm very suspicious about your story. You say the spam stopped after three months? I've been running corporate email systems since 1997 and I've learned that once you are on a spam list, it may slow down, but I've never seen it stop. I still respond user unknown 550 to addresses that have not accepted email in 11 years.
Sure, you get to keep the copyright, but after we use your material for our own purposes you will have to take us to court to prove you own the copyright. This is what happens when you use an over the wire service, be it an ASP model EMR or your cable provider reading your email. It is not private and this TOS proves it.
By submitting, posting or displaying the content you give Google a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive licence to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute any Content which you submit, post or display on or through, the Services.
I like having my data on my hard drives on my backup discs. You can keep you Web 3.0 crap.
They had never asked me for permission to do that.
Bullshit. I used to work for BofA and they explicitly state that they will do that. If they did not and it actually happened they would be getting sued left and right. Read the fine print. Banks rarely do anything without discloser. They have many lawyers just to write that fine print.