Youtube is choppy on my 3Mb/s connection at home (not at work.) So I have multiple tabs open. One tab had a Youtube video paused & buffering while the other has completed the download and is playing the video.
I do this with some of the other video sites too. Pause it, let it buffer enough to not worry about the stuttering.
So if you are really worried about this, go to %windir%\tasks and setup a batch file that looks for any files with these names. If count > 1 then e-mail yourself the results. Pretty easy with a batch file and BLAT.
#1) These are recyclable -- they offer a return address for you and recycling center information.
#2) From the site "The viewing window begins when the consumer opens the package and exposes the Flexplay DVD to air. A Flexplay DVD can be watched as many times as a consumer wants during the pre-set viewing window."
Since I am an alien and live in an Argon atmosphere, I wonder if they would degenerate?
10.5.3 OS X. I use Firefox, however my default Safari settings are as such;
Automatically download to folder: Desktop -- I've moved mine to Downloads Open Safe files after downloading: (Includes movies, sounds, disk images, pictures, pdf's) Default is YES.
So not only does it apparently allow automatic downloads to the desktop, but execute them (disk images) as well. But it's not like a PC where these can actually do harm. The disk image would prompt me for my password to make system changes.
I was doing a Google search the other day and got suck in a javascript loop of some website trying to auto download a fake antimalware program. I hit cancel, and it automatically reloaded -- loop. This was firefox, and it was prompting me what to do. I had to end the task from the Dock.
Yea, autodownload needs to be disabled. Doesn't Firefox automatically start a download though - while the prompt for what to do is up? I believe while the prompt is up Firefox is downloading the file in the background to temp.
Consumer support is a completely different group than enterprise/corporate support. When Dell was in here we point blank asked them about all the reports of horrible support and they said that this comes from the consumer line, that the business line had a separate support team and separate call center.
We tried Dell, and it is amazingly cheaper than HP. But you miss out on so many things with Dell. HP has an awesome management package that comes with their computers. HP CIM allows you to flash firmware, drivers, etc with very simple point and click interfaces. Dell's OpenManageIT, which I use, sucks by comparison. Many updates require booting up from a CD ROM ISO (remote DRAC virtual drive) and doing it the old fashioned way. HP's gone down hill from the Compaq days, but my experience has been a lot better with HP than with the few Dell's we have.
For versions prior to Vista there are many programs such as Boot ERD Commander which can get you full system admin rights just by booting to their boot CD. We password protect the BIOS and disable booting from anything other than the HDD. Someone could of course reset the BIOS password using the jumpers on the BIOS, however that is less likely to occur that someone booting up a Knoppix CD to grab the registry to L0pht it.
Novell Netware Client had an issue where after it replaces the GINA there is a help option at logon which can be used to gain system access. This vista issue requires a reboot and booting to a CD to change a file. Seems if you care about security, you have boot From CD/DVD/USB disabled and password protected except the times you need it. If someone has physical access where they can boot, they could always try to make a quick clone of the PC and walk away with the cloned data. Even with encryption, unless you use a decent key, they can still get your data using a dictionary or brute force attack. We've used the resources of our LAN to brute force a password a fired user placed on one of our assets. It took a week of combined attacks, but we had the information back.
We are doing this using Nortel 7230 to extend Internet to a farm around 3 miles out in the country.
We are actually using 4 of these. We have one at the main office, one on top a barn that connects to another via wire, which connects to the farm. The farm is not line of site enough to make a direct hop.
We get 54Mb/s data rate, which equals about 6Mb/s usable bandwidth. It varies with storms & requires a lot of maintenance in the form of lighting replacements, realignment, etc.
Including UPS units, labor, running power, etc it cost us around $10,000 for this link.
You can try low end stuff and do the same thing. These are called wireless bridges. Google knows of them.
>>>Take into account the fact that you will also be most likely using pre-existing exploits, which will be repaired swiftly by responsible developers that watch security RSS feeds, and this is a red herring task
I am less pessimistic. WMF files were exploitable for what? 11 years before it was leaked? JPG files via Quicktime for years. Excel exploits that were not fixed for years. Just becauase a vulnerability was discovered on the 1st and patched on the 20th doesn't mean it only existed for 20 days.
All they have to do is locate these vulnerabilities and sit on them. They don't have to release this to Secunia. They don't even have to use the exploit outside a lab until needed. And if they want to "control" a PC, they probably either want to disable it or take data off of it. They will be less likely to leave traces of how they got onto the computer because of this.
>>Apple wants to control the experience. They want to spec high values of hardware. And they don't want to support mutt-hardware and end up like SP3.
The why do Mac's lock up in Front Row when playing music and power savings mode kicks in? It's completely reproducible over and over again. This requires me to reboot the Mac hard to get it back.
So create an RFC with the goal to provide multiple site protection from one Certificate.
They are computers. They do what we tell them to. We now have wildcard certs for things like *.yahoo.com.
How about a certificate which handles the company providing the HTTP server? One certificate which installs onto the server and delivers certificates for the specified hosts.
And don't tell me this is not possible -- read the first sentence.. I'm saying make it possible..
My MacBook Pro has an GeForce 8600M GT with DDR3, not the slower DDR2 on the Toshiba Qosimo and most other laptops with the 8600M. Dell has one model with DDR3, but most are DDR2. Make a big difference.
In bootcamp on XP, I can play Eve online with the advanced client, no problems. BF2 runs like a champ. It plays games very well. When I play Eve or SecondLife on the Mac side in emulation, it is usable but not the performer that it is on XP.
One reason I went with the Mac was the awesome gaming performance, when in XP. Other than for gaming, I use the OS X side.
Damn, that's the reason I get killed off in Eve. Right as I attack, my connection drops. 2AM, 6 months of work, and 30 seconds of downtime to ruin it all.
>>Truthfully, the Open Source and Free Software probably hasn't cost proprietary vendors much at all. The people who want to pay for support contracts and warranties still do so.
Are you kidding? Before Ethereal/Wireshark I paid $5000 for a packet capture package. This was about 12 years ago. We paid for software updates yearly. We had to have this type of software. Now I use Wireshark. That is a loss of revenue to that vendor. In fact, I'm almost certain they are out of business.
I paid for DNS/DHCP software for Windows from Checkpoint for a few years (they were ports of BIND with GUI interfaces) until I became comfortable enough with *nix to go that route. That's about $10,000 of software and thousands in support. Checkpoint no longer owns META/IP..
I paid for a proxy server from IBM. Now I use Squid. I don't want to tell you how much a Midrange (not PC) Proxy server costs.
The point is, I am spending less in software. Thank god & finally. DOS use to be $60. Now Windows Ultimate is $500. IBM PC's were $2000+ in the early 80's. and now I can find them for $199 on the low end. I can buy a PC for less than the OS.
>>Truthfully, the Open Source and Free Software probably hasn't cost proprietary vendors much at all. The people who want to pay for support contracts and warranties still do so.
Are you kidding? Before Ethereal/Wireshark I paid $5000 for a packet capture package. This was about 12 years ago. We paid for software updates yearly. We had to have this type of software. Now I use Wireshark. That is a loss of revenue to that vendor. In fact, I'm almost certain they are out of business.
I paid for DNS/DHCP software for Windows from Checkpoint for a few years (they were ports of BIND with GUI interfaces) until I became comfortable enough with *nix to go that route. That's about $10,000 of software and thousands in support. Checkpoint no longer owns META/IP..
I paid for a proxy server from IBM. Now I use Squid. I don't want to tell you how much a Midrange (not PC) Proxy server costs.
The point is, I am spending less in software. Thank god & finally. DOS use to be $60. Now Windows Ultimate is $500. IBM PC's were $2000+ in the early 80's. and now I can find them for $199 on the low end. I can buy a PC for less than the OS.
>>the network's owner has specified that anyone can use it, why is it bad to do so?
If your ISP is through your Cable company, you are an accessory to cable theft unless you have an account which allows for sharing. Some offer a business class and allow for sharing.
If your ISP is through your phone company (DSL) and your contract forbids this (not all do) you are aiding in theft of phone services.
If you have a contract which allows you to share like this, consider contributing to the free hotspot community.
I run P2P because I want to download something - I usually don't care how long it takes to download.
What we really need to to take QoS to the next level. Applications such as BITS, Bitorrent, Gnutella, et al should tag their packets with QoS data. Not enough to identify what they are, but to resolve this issue before it is resolved in a way which we don't like.
If my P2P traffic/updates/downloads/et al are tagged at low priority, then I can consume IDLE bandwidth allowing Joe the web surfer to have quick page load times. The impact is minimal on me, until the ISP *WAY* oversubscribes.
This solves most of the problems.
I have 100Mb/s Internet connection. Was pay based on 95th percentile utilization (Take all 5 minute averages for month into Excel and sort, remove top 5% of the rows, pay for the usage at the top row now.) So one month is $600/mo then next may be $1500. Works for me.
In CoV/CoH they have accolades and such. Some of these are gained by finding all the/object x/ in an area. So the next step is that once the advertising is in place, to obtain weapon/enhancement Y, you will have to complete accolade Z. It just so happens that doing that requires viewing all these in game ad's.
That's where they are going with this.
I quit playing long ago. Got tired of the grind. But if they want to make this *entirely* optional, and not required for an accolade, then it wouldn't have upset me had I still been playing. I wondered why they didn't take advantage of those billboards anyway. Oh wait, does this mean daily updates to get the new billboards?
IF we are talking about Windows XP, then just setup a large system restore percentage. If they screw the PC up, revert to a system restore prior to the screw up.
If this is really such a huge problem, let them manage their own PC's and put the apps on a Citrix/TS type environment.
We have both. Locked down & not locked down. The locked down one's see viruses, but are defended against them. The non locked down ones get infected. The locked down ones usually just work, while the non-locked down ones require a lot of odd support. Our locked down ones get the latest Flash/Java/Shockwave/Adobe/M$ patches/et al whereas the non locked down ones do not.
I have one of these vehicles. I was looking at using RFID to do some tracking of the vehicle (Did it leave it's parking space at 3am? If so, sound alarm.) But since it has TPMS, how would I go about using that? I guess 1st thing would be to setup a scanner on 315MHz & 433Mhz and see if mine is wired or wireless would be first, eh? Then find an aftermarket system that works on the same frequency & interface it via a serial interface..
Where I work we have a separate, open, WIFI network with 100Mb/s bandwidth to the Internet. Download an ISO in minutes. This attracts a lot of people who park around the campus. It's amazing how many people have read/write access open to their entire hard drive. It's amazing how much personal information, such as what type of adult movies and mp3 they enjoy, is left wide open.
Most of these people have some sort of P2P client installed such as Limewire.
Windows should warn you if you have your entire C: drive shared read/write to guest and open through the firewall. In fact, I think they should remove that capability all together. Guest never should have full read/write access to c:\.
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Youtube is choppy on my 3Mb/s connection at home (not at work.) So I have multiple tabs open. One tab had a Youtube video paused & buffering while the other has completed the download and is playing the video.
I do this with some of the other video sites too. Pause it, let it buffer enough to not worry about the stuttering.
So if you are really worried about this, go to %windir%\tasks and setup a batch file that looks for any files with these names. If count > 1 then e-mail yourself the results. Pretty easy with a batch file and BLAT.
#1) These are recyclable -- they offer a return address for you and recycling center information.
#2) From the site "The viewing window begins when the consumer opens the package and exposes the Flexplay DVD to air. A Flexplay DVD can be watched as many times as a consumer wants during the pre-set viewing window."
Since I am an alien and live in an Argon atmosphere, I wonder if they would degenerate?
I think iChat got worse. Video & Audio chats crash more often for me. Sykpe works great though.
Still have issues when I press keys they don't appear in what I am typing. This release, it's the return key - often when trying to log on.
10.5.3 OS X. I use Firefox, however my default Safari settings are as such;
Automatically download to folder: Desktop -- I've moved mine to Downloads
Open Safe files after downloading: (Includes movies, sounds, disk images, pictures, pdf's) Default is YES.
So not only does it apparently allow automatic downloads to the desktop, but execute them (disk images) as well. But it's not like a PC where these can actually do harm. The disk image would prompt me for my password to make system changes.
I was doing a Google search the other day and got suck in a javascript loop of some website trying to auto download a fake antimalware program. I hit cancel, and it automatically reloaded -- loop. This was firefox, and it was prompting me what to do. I had to end the task from the Dock.
Yea, autodownload needs to be disabled. Doesn't Firefox automatically start a download though - while the prompt for what to do is up? I believe while the prompt is up Firefox is downloading the file in the background to temp.
Consumer support is a completely different group than enterprise/corporate support. When Dell was in here we point blank asked them about all the reports of horrible support and they said that this comes from the consumer line, that the business line had a separate support team and separate call center.
We tried Dell, and it is amazingly cheaper than HP. But you miss out on so many things with Dell. HP has an awesome management package that comes with their computers. HP CIM allows you to flash firmware, drivers, etc with very simple point and click interfaces. Dell's OpenManageIT, which I use, sucks by comparison. Many updates require booting up from a CD ROM ISO (remote DRAC virtual drive) and doing it the old fashioned way. HP's gone down hill from the Compaq days, but my experience has been a lot better with HP than with the few Dell's we have.
For versions prior to Vista there are many programs such as Boot ERD Commander which can get you full system admin rights just by booting to their boot CD. We password protect the BIOS and disable booting from anything other than the HDD. Someone could of course reset the BIOS password using the jumpers on the BIOS, however that is less likely to occur that someone booting up a Knoppix CD to grab the registry to L0pht it.
Novell Netware Client had an issue where after it replaces the GINA there is a help option at logon which can be used to gain system access. This vista issue requires a reboot and booting to a CD to change a file. Seems if you care about security, you have boot From CD/DVD/USB disabled and password protected except the times you need it. If someone has physical access where they can boot, they could always try to make a quick clone of the PC and walk away with the cloned data. Even with encryption, unless you use a decent key, they can still get your data using a dictionary or brute force attack. We've used the resources of our LAN to brute force a password a fired user placed on one of our assets. It took a week of combined attacks, but we had the information back.
We are doing this using Nortel 7230 to extend Internet to a farm around 3 miles out in the country.
We are actually using 4 of these. We have one at the main office, one on top a barn that connects to another via wire, which connects to the farm. The farm is not line of site enough to make a direct hop.
We get 54Mb/s data rate, which equals about 6Mb/s usable bandwidth. It varies with storms & requires a lot of maintenance in the form of lighting replacements, realignment, etc.
Including UPS units, labor, running power, etc it cost us around $10,000 for this link.
You can try low end stuff and do the same thing. These are called wireless bridges. Google knows of them.
This sounds like the NASA joke of spending 1.5Million to write in space where as the USSR used a pencil.
http://www.snopes.com/business/genius/spacepen.asp
The cheap solution is to purchase some of these cheap tags and attach them to the objects in question;
http://www.nexusgadgets.com/Key-Finder-Key-Ring-pr-16448.html
http://www.cgets.com/item--Remote-Key-Finder--Single_Key_Locator
http://www.storepulls.com/products/Sonic_Key_Finder-218299-4432.html
That last one is under $2US.
So where is this profane picture at? Searching bayimg for Shivaji shows nothing.
You get 1MB/s on average download? That's 8Mb/s. And you have a 7Mb/s plan. Wow. I'm lucky if I get 2Mb/s (or .25MB/s) at home.
>>>Take into account the fact that you will also be most likely using pre-existing exploits, which will be repaired swiftly by responsible developers that watch security RSS feeds, and this is a red herring task
I am less pessimistic. WMF files were exploitable for what? 11 years before it was leaked? JPG files via Quicktime for years. Excel exploits that were not fixed for years. Just becauase a vulnerability was discovered on the 1st and patched on the 20th doesn't mean it only existed for 20 days.
All they have to do is locate these vulnerabilities and sit on them. They don't have to release this to Secunia. They don't even have to use the exploit outside a lab until needed. And if they want to "control" a PC, they probably either want to disable it or take data off of it. They will be less likely to leave traces of how they got onto the computer because of this.
>>Apple wants to control the experience. They want to spec high values of hardware. And they don't want to support mutt-hardware and end up like SP3.
The why do Mac's lock up in Front Row when playing music and power savings mode kicks in? It's completely reproducible over and over again. This requires me to reboot the Mac hard to get it back.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=7155550
So create an RFC with the goal to provide multiple site protection from one Certificate.
They are computers. They do what we tell them to. We now have wildcard certs for things like *.yahoo.com.
How about a certificate which handles the company providing the HTTP server? One certificate which installs onto the server and delivers certificates for the specified hosts.
And don't tell me this is not possible -- read the first sentence.. I'm saying make it possible..
My MacBook Pro has an GeForce 8600M GT with DDR3, not the slower DDR2 on the Toshiba Qosimo and most other laptops with the 8600M. Dell has one model with DDR3, but most are DDR2. Make a big difference.
In bootcamp on XP, I can play Eve online with the advanced client, no problems. BF2 runs like a champ. It plays games very well. When I play Eve or SecondLife on the Mac side in emulation, it is usable but not the performer that it is on XP.
One reason I went with the Mac was the awesome gaming performance, when in XP. Other than for gaming, I use the OS X side.
This is why we have not closed the borders. I can see the room now with thousands of alien workers reading every white house e-mail for sorting. Nice.
Damn, that's the reason I get killed off in Eve. Right as I attack, my connection drops. 2AM, 6 months of work, and 30 seconds of downtime to ruin it all.
>>Truthfully, the Open Source and Free Software probably hasn't cost proprietary vendors much at all. The people who want to pay for support contracts and warranties still do so.
Are you kidding? Before Ethereal/Wireshark I paid $5000 for a packet capture package. This was about 12 years ago. We paid for software updates yearly. We had to have this type of software. Now I use Wireshark. That is a loss of revenue to that vendor. In fact, I'm almost certain they are out of business.
I paid for DNS/DHCP software for Windows from Checkpoint for a few years (they were ports of BIND with GUI interfaces) until I became comfortable enough with *nix to go that route. That's about $10,000 of software and thousands in support. Checkpoint no longer owns META/IP..
I paid for a proxy server from IBM. Now I use Squid. I don't want to tell you how much a Midrange (not PC) Proxy server costs.
The point is, I am spending less in software. Thank god & finally. DOS use to be $60. Now Windows Ultimate is $500. IBM PC's were $2000+ in the early 80's. and now I can find them for $199 on the low end. I can buy a PC for less than the OS.
http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=8440
>>Truthfully, the Open Source and Free Software probably hasn't cost proprietary vendors much at all. The people who want to pay for support contracts and warranties still do so.
Are you kidding? Before Ethereal/Wireshark I paid $5000 for a packet capture package. This was about 12 years ago. We paid for software updates yearly. We had to have this type of software. Now I use Wireshark. That is a loss of revenue to that vendor. In fact, I'm almost certain they are out of business.
I paid for DNS/DHCP software for Windows from Checkpoint for a few years (they were ports of BIND with GUI interfaces) until I became comfortable enough with *nix to go that route. That's about $10,000 of software and thousands in support. Checkpoint no longer owns META/IP..
I paid for a proxy server from IBM. Now I use Squid. I don't want to tell you how much a Midrange (not PC) Proxy server costs.
The point is, I am spending less in software. Thank god & finally. DOS use to be $60. Now Windows Ultimate is $500. IBM PC's were $2000+ in the early 80's. and now I can find them for $199 on the low end. I can buy a PC for less than the OS.
http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=8440
>>the network's owner has specified that anyone can use it, why is it bad to do so?
If your ISP is through your Cable company, you are an accessory to cable theft unless you have an account which allows for sharing. Some offer a business class and allow for sharing.
If your ISP is through your phone company (DSL) and your contract forbids this (not all do) you are aiding in theft of phone services.
If you have a contract which allows you to share like this, consider contributing to the free hotspot community.
I run P2P because I want to download something - I usually don't care how long it takes to download.
What we really need to to take QoS to the next level. Applications such as BITS, Bitorrent, Gnutella, et al should tag their packets with QoS data. Not enough to identify what they are, but to resolve this issue before it is resolved in a way which we don't like.
If my P2P traffic/updates/downloads/et al are tagged at low priority, then I can consume IDLE bandwidth allowing Joe the web surfer to have quick page load times. The impact is minimal on me, until the ISP *WAY* oversubscribes.
This solves most of the problems.
I have 100Mb/s Internet connection. Was pay based on 95th percentile utilization (Take all 5 minute averages for month into Excel and sort, remove top 5% of the rows, pay for the usage at the top row now.) So one month is $600/mo then next may be $1500. Works for me.
In CoV/CoH they have accolades and such. Some of these are gained by finding all the /object x/ in an area. So the next step is that once the advertising is in place, to obtain weapon/enhancement Y, you will have to complete accolade Z. It just so happens that doing that requires viewing all these in game ad's.
That's where they are going with this.
I quit playing long ago. Got tired of the grind. But if they want to make this *entirely* optional, and not required for an accolade, then it wouldn't have upset me had I still been playing. I wondered why they didn't take advantage of those billboards anyway. Oh wait, does this mean daily updates to get the new billboards?
IF we are talking about Windows XP, then just setup a large system restore percentage. If they screw the PC up, revert to a system restore prior to the screw up.
If this is really such a huge problem, let them manage their own PC's and put the apps on a Citrix/TS type environment.
We have both. Locked down & not locked down. The locked down one's see viruses, but are defended against them. The non locked down ones get infected. The locked down ones usually just work, while the non-locked down ones require a lot of odd support. Our locked down ones get the latest Flash/Java/Shockwave/Adobe/M$ patches/et al whereas the non locked down ones do not.
I have one of these vehicles. I was looking at using RFID to do some tracking of the vehicle (Did it leave it's parking space at 3am? If so, sound alarm.) But since it has TPMS, how would I go about using that? I guess 1st thing would be to setup a scanner on 315MHz & 433Mhz and see if mine is wired or wireless would be first, eh? Then find an aftermarket system that works on the same frequency & interface it via a serial interface..
Where I work we have a separate, open, WIFI network with 100Mb/s bandwidth to the Internet. Download an ISO in minutes. This attracts a lot of people who park around the campus. It's amazing how many people have read/write access open to their entire hard drive. It's amazing how much personal information, such as what type of adult movies and mp3 they enjoy, is left wide open.
Most of these people have some sort of P2P client installed such as Limewire.
Windows should warn you if you have your entire C: drive shared read/write to guest and open through the firewall. In fact, I think they should remove that capability all together. Guest never should have full read/write access to c:\.