Yeah I believe you when you say that your little program that runs ALL of the timedeosn't spy on me......NOT! That's the problem with these driver copy protection schemes. In order to work, they have to run at all times....even when your not running the game. That shoul dnot happen. Also, and this may sound out of the orderinary or weird, but if you price your gane reasonably, the pirates won't waste their time. I mean $50??? For a GAME? The same could be saide about playstation games but at least I understand the reson they charge what they do (because they make zip off of the hardware sale..easily solved....charge a reasonable price for the hardware..).
I would not say that Iraq was a complete failure. One thing I would say is that the MEDIA does not show enough of the successes because it isn't really news. We are SUPPOSED to be successful. The failures are more sensational and get better ratings then the success stories. Like how the infrastructure in Iraq is now BETTER then it has ever been under Saddam. Also, how there is a Iraqi Olympic team this year and one member is even a woman! Would that have happened if they were still under Saddam's fist? The Iraq situation is one that is not going to be solved over night mostly because the enemy we are searching may not even be Iraqi, but could be Al Qaida Terrorists. The Iraq war was not about Oil and never was. It was about the defiant Saddam Huessien not coming through on his end of the bargain. The UN even said this and not only did Germany and the US have evidence of WMD's still in Iraq, but UN inspectors even said so. Some will say that that's because they were Americans saying this, but I really doubt that happened. Pluse, while noone has shown proof that Saddam has been allied with Al Qaida, there has been evidence that showed he did not mind them using areas of Iraq as training centers. He also cheered ever Al Qaida success (the USS Cole and 9/11). Saddam was a bad man and his sons were just as bad as he was. Som ewill also point to many years ago and say we created the situation in Iraq and this is true, we don't deny that. So you could also look at this as correcting a mistake as well. Also, in the fog of war, Saddam could have donated his WMD's to Al Qaida. That's the scariest thing in this whole Iraq deal. The WMD's may be found someday, but they may be found after they have blown up downtown NY.
Turkey is a excellent example of how democracy could work for Muslims. The problem with Iraq is as you and others have said...they are not ready and they do no thave a significant number of Iraqi citizens to help protect both the orders of the country as well as the common Iraqi. Just now are we pulling out of some bases we have been at since WWII in Europe. It could be 2050 before things truly settle down and Iraq becomes a true democratic state. I hopt it does not take that long, but we need to support our guys in any case.
DO they think this will win votes for Kerry? If anything, it will just tick people off more that you are doing some hacker attack to push the democratic agenda instead of honestly discussing the issues. There are so many people that say they are voting for Kerry because they hate Bush, but they have yet to come up with a single positive reason to vote for Kerry...except that they hate Bush. Vote FOR something not against someone else. It will get more done.
You know this may be a valid thing. Apple, ATI et al all think that they will get exposure because of my measly screen shots...yeah I believe that.
I know some apps, like Quicktime, think they are making the launch of quicktime movies faster by having the app there when it's really not. If Quicktime and the other 20 applications that want to put themselves in the tray actually were not there, then the movies would run very fast!:D Only usefuly tray apps for me are:
IM Programs (let's me know my status)
The Volume control is till use ful as it's quicker to click there then to go through the start menu to adjust other devices like your microphone.
The VPN icon My mail program in the tray tells me when I have mail and is useful.
That's about it. 90 percent of tray apps can be deactivated easily....right click on most of them and choose the one that makes it go away. If it's not there, then check the preferences menu.
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This needs to be modded up. Big time. I run Weatherbug. It's ad supported and I know it installs the My Search toolbar as well. It also does not mind at all if you go into Add/Remove and remove it. Weatherbug continues to function after that. It tells you right upfront what it's installing and does not sneak it in. Claria probably doesn't do this sometimes.
One way we have prevented our Mom and Dad's from installing this stuff it to give them explicit instructions...now mom, everyday, you use this limited account and when you need to install something, either call me or use this Administrator sign on but DO NOT use this signon for anything but installing applications. Do not browse with it. This seemed to cure my little bro in law from having to go help his mom get rid of a virus or spyware. He also has scanners for virus and spyware installed as well and since he has to go pick his son up there every once in a while, he will do a sweep which is short instead of 3-4 hours removing spyware and viruses. Until most users adapt a UNIX like way of using their Windows machines, they will not be able to combat crap like Claria. If it starts to not work, then Claria will ahve to find another way to stay in business. Being vigilant in this battle will help us win...but being stupid and clicking OK whenever you see it WITHOUT READING THE BOX will kill you.
Here's my Anti-Phishing tool
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My Anti Phishing tool is my brain. I mean sometimes these phishing e-mails are nto even spoof so that they appear to come from the company that they are spoofing. Sometimes the website has graphics for the company they are trying to appear as and the URL is in CHINA! First off, No company shuld EVER ask you to click on a link and enter personal information for things. No mortgage company I know of will actually advertise in a spam and if they do, then your alert flag should go up. If you just use common sense, you should be more then able to determine if a web page or e-mail is a phishing attempt. Unfortunately, your grandma or your mom may not. I think that companies liek AOL need to add more training wheels to their service so to speak and help them with determining if something is legit or not. Would I ever load such software? No I would not because I don't need it....but my mom might.
It's pretty sad that the following example can happen....
Buy ticket to Knoxville, TN from Columbus, OH online
On day of flight:
Show up 3 hours ahead of time. Sit and wait an hour because the plane is delayed. Fly a half an hour away and wait another hour for the connection Fly to knoxville in another half an hour.
6 Hours for a PLANE to Knoxville.....it takes about the same amount of time to DRIVE to Knoxville from Columbus....something's WRONG here!
Some will say, well, Columbus and Knoxville are not exactly busy airports, but the same thing would happen when flying from Philadelphia to New York or to Boston. Plane travel should be FASTER not the same speed as driving.
Java is still bloated. Case in point....take simple contact logging program I have on my Mac called jLog. Whenever that program or any Java program for that matter runs on my Mac, the CPU is maxed out the whole time until I quit the Java Application. Now this just may be Apple's implementation sucking, but for a simple app like jLog, it should not spike the CPU like that. I just checked and it appears that that bug has been squished, but it was like that for a long time.
At work, I have a few Java apps that I need to run to do my job. Each of them requires a different JRE. I had to have 3 JRE's installed jsut so I could use all the apps. That's unacceptable. Sun or IBM or someone needs to make a jre that will run them all so to speak.
With all that said, I still think Java is pretty damn cool in what it can do. It's not the run everywhere panacea that SUn made it out to be though. It can run almost everywhere though and that is the cool thing. It IS getting better which is why I think some people say it is coming back although web game players like my brother will say it has not gone anywhere as game desingers have been writing gams in Java all along.
We went to Paramount's King's Island in Cincinnatti and they used a finger print to make sure noone else used our ticket on the second day. At first you think so what, but what if you wer ecamping at teh campground and someone snuck in your tent and stole it or someone picked yuor pocket when in the park? While I think there are better ways, you still have to collect something and a fingerprint is better then a urine sample or god forbid blood samples.
There's a voice recorder attachment being sold by Griffin that will do what you want on any iPod. As far as I know, there has never been built in recording in the iPod.
As much as I like some things about my Zen, I really don't like creative now because....NONE of thier Nomads work with iTunes or my Mac.....at ALL. I mean I don't really care if they support iTMS's AAC files, but I would just like to be able to use iTunes on my machine. Also, even on Windows, you have to have goofy ass plugins to use the data feature. IN any case, I as soon as I can get a iPod, I am going to eBay my USB 2.0 Zen. I have had it. BUH BYE Creative MP3 Player....at least they still make decent sound cards.
You sir are wrong. Compile a rpm package on Yellow Dog running on a Mac and move it to AIX (yes AIX can install RPM's) and it works...usually. Barring any library issues that is. Same thing with other PPC based machines. Now if you had coded it using X feature off of x chip, in assembler or if your complier had an option to take advantage of enhancements to the processor it's currently running on...then you may not be able to move it. The grandparent of this post is wrong. POWER=PowerPC and PowerPC=POWER...mostly. Of course if you take advantage of some of IBM's work on POWER and move it to a Motorola chip, you will have issues. But if you just compile for a PPC, it should work on either system.
You know I wonder if there's a BT version of the Twiddler? That would be cool as heck and would work fine with most PDA's. Then you could strap the pda to your wrist and type with the other(nevermind looking like a geek).
If they have suspicion of illegal activity, then yes they DO tap your phone line. They need a warrant, last I checked, but that can happen without you knowing about it either. This is juse Vinage sayingif the feds want something, they are going to give it up. Oh and this probably does not have anything to do with the Patriot Act either. They had this power before.
I love this....it was all over the web yesterday that it's been released but it probably won't hit til next week sometime but it will be out very soon. The final bit has probably only been released to beta testers first then us regular users can get it....eventually.
This is dumb....not unexpected, but still dumb. Hmm...lessee....most of us woud still be at work for primetime events in Athens anyway and that would be perfect to drive the net admins batty with streaming packets!
Those reviews should not have been removed. I don't care if they were not really reviews. The whole thing is reprehensible. The parents never paid attention to Katie and that's the only way I feel sorry for her is that her workaholic parents did not pay enough attention to her. I ain't saying that the sicko was right, but she should have thought to herself that hey I am too young to be hanging out with a 27 year old.
Activesync works over IP now pretty much. It uses about 2-3 ports by itself. Plus a good percentage of PPC's now have WiFi integrated so various ports would be open.
Oh and that's not entirely true about OSX.....it has ports 25 and 80 open from the start (for mail and web). OSX also does not happen to ship with alot of the services other then those open. Trojan's don't have to use obsecure ports and many don't because they know port 80 and 25 are almost always open. Trojan's may be counted with viral malware, but most trojans are not viruses as they don't spread all by themselves...i guess you could call them parasites. The host has to actively eat consume the parasite by running the program.
Um...ahh I know!:D If they are wirelessly connected, they most likely have 192.168.1.100 or some other IP as any good network admin would know that wireless security is SHIT and needs to be isolated form the rest of your network and doing a NAT and having a firewall between your WLAN and your regular LAN is VERY common. When your behind a NAT, your definitely not totally hidden, but for this thing to work, you almost have to have a public IP and even then (GPRS may do this but I bet they use NAT too) you have to be on the network. Also, a quick hard reset and this virus is gone (unless you had it in file store or a SD Card AND click on it again).
Also, you have to be an idiot to get this one too as you HAVE to run it. I know, there are alot of idiots our there, but you should hope that they'd have learned by this point. This virus is not going to be common. The common ones are the ones that get spread across the network and this does not even do that....it just trys to zombify your ppc.
The clowns installing shit could easily be resolved by installing the software you need into the rom (I believe some symbol based ppc scanners have this) and NOT GIVING THEM WIFI Or I should say internet privleges on the WiFi network. That's how you can prevent idiocy with mission critical ppc based scanners.
This particualr virus would be gone after a reset unless you were dumb enough to save it in the file store and run it again. When it runs, it put's itself in/windows/startup.
This is a inconsequential virus and there's still no need for PPC antivirus software.
Ok how long ago was this? All software changes with time and I am sure even if this was only a couple years ago that a new version may be out. IN any case, your talking about things that kids between 5 and 13 ain't going to do. Like running VTI.
Crippled as in hardware design yes but I see no problem having filtering software on it. Kid's won't like MS Bob like computing either because it looks nothing like what daddy uses.
Does Windows does this? Can Windows automagically get your WEP key (for a home WAP, not the fancy ones that use Radius servers at work...)? No way! SO anyone who dings Linux because of that is just clueless because you HAVE to configure it on Windows.....it's just hidden in nice gooey windows instead of a.conf file.
That said, Linux is not ready for the desktop and the reason is the applications most users want/need do not run on Linux. Some may point to OpenOffice.org but that's just an office suit and most likely the thing that matters least. If you can't run a piece of software bought by your company that you use to actually run your business, then it's useless. Using a computer is more then just what you need at home. if youc an't run your business application on it, then you can't run it no matter how much you like Linux or how many items replace Office. Gimp is nice, but are their classes on learning it? Do artists want to use something other then the software that they paid $$$ for in classes and the software itself? That's the thing. Sure, we may be able to do amazing stuff with the Gimp but if you don't know how to use it and were trained in another package, then it really does not matter does it?
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Yeah I believe you when you say that your little program that runs ALL of the timedeosn't spy on me......NOT! That's the problem with these driver copy protection schemes. In order to work, they have to run at all times....even when your not running the game. That shoul dnot happen. Also, and this may sound out of the orderinary or weird, but if you price your gane reasonably, the pirates won't waste their time. I mean $50??? For a GAME? The same could be saide about playstation games but at least I understand the reson they charge what they do (because they make zip off of the hardware sale..easily solved....charge a reasonable price for the hardware..).
I would not say that Iraq was a complete failure. One thing I would say is that the MEDIA does not show enough of the successes because it isn't really news. We are SUPPOSED to be successful. The failures are more sensational and get better ratings then the success stories. Like how the infrastructure in Iraq is now BETTER then it has ever been under Saddam. Also, how there is a Iraqi Olympic team this year and one member is even a woman! Would that have happened if they were still under Saddam's fist? The Iraq situation is one that is not going to be solved over night mostly because the enemy we are searching may not even be Iraqi, but could be Al Qaida Terrorists. The Iraq war was not about Oil and never was. It was about the defiant Saddam Huessien not coming through on his end of the bargain. The UN even said this and not only did Germany and the US have evidence of WMD's still in Iraq, but UN inspectors even said so. Some will say that that's because they were Americans saying this, but I really doubt that happened. Pluse, while noone has shown proof that Saddam has been allied with Al Qaida, there has been evidence that showed he did not mind them using areas of Iraq as training centers. He also cheered ever Al Qaida success (the USS Cole and 9/11). Saddam was a bad man and his sons were just as bad as he was. Som ewill also point to many years ago and say we created the situation in Iraq and this is true, we don't deny that. So you could also look at this as correcting a mistake as well. Also, in the fog of war, Saddam could have donated his WMD's to Al Qaida. That's the scariest thing in this whole Iraq deal. The WMD's may be found someday, but they may be found after they have blown up downtown NY.
Turkey is a excellent example of how democracy could work for Muslims. The problem with Iraq is as you and others have said...they are not ready and they do no thave a significant number of Iraqi citizens to help protect both the orders of the country as well as the common Iraqi. Just now are we pulling out of some bases we have been at since WWII in Europe. It could be 2050 before things truly settle down and Iraq becomes a true democratic state. I hopt it does not take that long, but we need to support our guys in any case.
DO they think this will win votes for Kerry? If anything, it will just tick people off more that you are doing some hacker attack to push the democratic agenda instead of honestly discussing the issues. There are so many people that say they are voting for Kerry because they hate Bush, but they have yet to come up with a single positive reason to vote for Kerry...except that they hate Bush. Vote FOR something not against someone else. It will get more done.
You know this may be a valid thing. Apple, ATI et al all think that they will get exposure because of my measly screen shots...yeah I believe that.
:D Only usefuly tray apps for me are:
I know some apps, like Quicktime, think they are making the launch of quicktime movies faster by having the app there when it's really not. If Quicktime and the other 20 applications that want to put themselves in the tray actually were not there, then the movies would run very fast!
IM Programs (let's me know my status)
The Volume control is till use ful as it's quicker to click there then to go through the start menu to adjust other devices like your microphone.
The VPN icon
My mail program in the tray tells me when I have mail and is useful.
That's about it. 90 percent of tray apps can be deactivated easily....right click on most of them and choose the one that makes it go away. If it's not there, then check the preferences menu.
This needs to be modded up. Big time. I run Weatherbug. It's ad supported and I know it installs the My Search toolbar as well. It also does not mind at all if you go into Add/Remove and remove it. Weatherbug continues to function after that. It tells you right upfront what it's installing and does not sneak it in. Claria probably doesn't do this sometimes.
One way we have prevented our Mom and Dad's from installing this stuff it to give them explicit instructions...now mom, everyday, you use this limited account and when you need to install something, either call me or use this Administrator sign on but DO NOT use this signon for anything but installing applications. Do not browse with it. This seemed to cure my little bro in law from having to go help his mom get rid of a virus or spyware. He also has scanners for virus and spyware installed as well and since he has to go pick his son up there every once in a while, he will do a sweep which is short instead of 3-4 hours removing spyware and viruses. Until most users adapt a UNIX like way of using their Windows machines, they will not be able to combat crap like Claria. If it starts to not work, then Claria will ahve to find another way to stay in business. Being vigilant in this battle will help us win...but being stupid and clicking OK whenever you see it WITHOUT READING THE BOX will kill you.
My Anti Phishing tool is my brain. I mean sometimes these phishing e-mails are nto even spoof so that they appear to come from the company that they are spoofing. Sometimes the website has graphics for the company they are trying to appear as and the URL is in CHINA! First off, No company shuld EVER ask you to click on a link and enter personal information for things. No mortgage company I know of will actually advertise in a spam and if they do, then your alert flag should go up. If you just use common sense, you should be more then able to determine if a web page or e-mail is a phishing attempt. Unfortunately, your grandma or your mom may not. I think that companies liek AOL need to add more training wheels to their service so to speak and help them with determining if something is legit or not. Would I ever load such software? No I would not because I don't need it....but my mom might.
It's pretty sad that the following example can happen....
Buy ticket to Knoxville, TN from Columbus, OH online
On day of flight:
Show up 3 hours ahead of time.
Sit and wait an hour because the plane is delayed.
Fly a half an hour away and wait another hour for the connection
Fly to knoxville in another half an hour.
6 Hours for a PLANE to Knoxville.....it takes about the same amount of time to DRIVE to Knoxville from Columbus....something's WRONG here!
Some will say, well, Columbus and Knoxville are not exactly busy airports, but the same thing would happen when flying from Philadelphia to New York or to Boston. Plane travel should be FASTER not the same speed as driving.
Java is still bloated. Case in point....take simple contact logging program I have on my Mac called jLog. Whenever that program or any Java program for that matter runs on my Mac, the CPU is maxed out the whole time until I quit the Java Application. Now this just may be Apple's implementation sucking, but for a simple app like jLog, it should not spike the CPU like that. I just checked and it appears that that bug has been squished, but it was like that for a long time.
At work, I have a few Java apps that I need to run to do my job. Each of them requires a different JRE. I had to have 3 JRE's installed jsut so I could use all the apps. That's unacceptable. Sun or IBM or someone needs to make a jre that will run them all so to speak.
With all that said, I still think Java is pretty damn cool in what it can do. It's not the run everywhere panacea that SUn made it out to be though. It can run almost everywhere though and that is the cool thing. It IS getting better which is why I think some people say it is coming back although web game players like my brother will say it has not gone anywhere as game desingers have been writing gams in Java all along.
We went to Paramount's King's Island in Cincinnatti and they used a finger print to make sure noone else used our ticket on the second day. At first you think so what, but what if you wer ecamping at teh campground and someone snuck in your tent and stole it or someone picked yuor pocket when in the park? While I think there are better ways, you still have to collect something and a fingerprint is better then a urine sample or god forbid blood samples.
Oops....messed up. The iTalk only works on 3rd and 4th gen....not on gen's 1 or 2.
There's a voice recorder attachment being sold by Griffin that will do what you want on any iPod. As far as I know, there has never been built in recording in the iPod.
As much as I like some things about my Zen, I really don't like creative now because....NONE of thier Nomads work with iTunes or my Mac.....at ALL. I mean I don't really care if they support iTMS's AAC files, but I would just like to be able to use iTunes on my machine. Also, even on Windows, you have to have goofy ass plugins to use the data feature. IN any case, I as soon as I can get a iPod, I am going to eBay my USB 2.0 Zen. I have had it. BUH BYE Creative MP3 Player....at least they still make decent sound cards.
You sir are wrong. Compile a rpm package on Yellow Dog running on a Mac and move it to AIX (yes AIX can install RPM's) and it works...usually. Barring any library issues that is. Same thing with other PPC based machines. Now if you had coded it using X feature off of x chip, in assembler or if your complier had an option to take advantage of enhancements to the processor it's currently running on...then you may not be able to move it. The grandparent of this post is wrong. POWER=PowerPC and PowerPC=POWER...mostly. Of course if you take advantage of some of IBM's work on POWER and move it to a Motorola chip, you will have issues. But if you just compile for a PPC, it should work on either system.
You know I wonder if there's a BT version of the Twiddler? That would be cool as heck and would work fine with most PDA's. Then you could strap the pda to your wrist and type with the other(nevermind looking like a geek).
If they have suspicion of illegal activity, then yes they DO tap your phone line. They need a warrant, last I checked, but that can happen without you knowing about it either. This is juse Vinage sayingif the feds want something, they are going to give it up. Oh and this probably does not have anything to do with the Patriot Act either. They had this power before.
AND Episodes of American Chopper, BIG, Monster House and Monster Garage.
I love this....it was all over the web yesterday that it's been released but it probably won't hit til next week sometime but it will be out very soon. The final bit has probably only been released to beta testers first then us regular users can get it....eventually.
This is dumb....not unexpected, but still dumb. Hmm...lessee....most of us woud still be at work for primetime events in Athens anyway and that would be perfect to drive the net admins batty with streaming packets!
Those reviews should not have been removed. I don't care if they were not really reviews. The whole thing is reprehensible. The parents never paid attention to Katie and that's the only way I feel sorry for her is that her workaholic parents did not pay enough attention to her. I ain't saying that the sicko was right, but she should have thought to herself that hey I am too young to be hanging out with a 27 year old.
Activesync works over IP now pretty much. It uses about 2-3 ports by itself. Plus a good percentage of PPC's now have WiFi integrated so various ports would be open.
Oh and that's not entirely true about OSX.....it has ports 25 and 80 open from the start (for mail and web). OSX also does not happen to ship with alot of the services other then those open. Trojan's don't have to use obsecure ports and many don't because they know port 80 and 25 are almost always open. Trojan's may be counted with viral malware, but most trojans are not viruses as they don't spread all by themselves...i guess you could call them parasites. The host has to actively eat consume the parasite by running the program.
Um...ahh I know! :D If they are wirelessly connected, they most likely have 192.168.1.100 or some other IP as any good network admin would know that wireless security is SHIT and needs to be isolated form the rest of your network and doing a NAT and having a firewall between your WLAN and your regular LAN is VERY common. When your behind a NAT, your definitely not totally hidden, but for this thing to work, you almost have to have a public IP and even then (GPRS may do this but I bet they use NAT too) you have to be on the network. Also, a quick hard reset and this virus is gone (unless you had it in file store or a SD Card AND click on it again).
Also, you have to be an idiot to get this one too as you HAVE to run it. I know, there are alot of idiots our there, but you should hope that they'd have learned by this point. This virus is not going to be common. The common ones are the ones that get spread across the network and this does not even do that....it just trys to zombify your ppc.
The clowns installing shit could easily be resolved by installing the software you need into the rom (I believe some symbol based ppc scanners have this) and NOT GIVING THEM WIFI Or I should say internet privleges on the WiFi network. That's how you can prevent idiocy with mission critical ppc based scanners.
This particualr virus would be gone after a reset unless you were dumb enough to save it in the file store and run it again. When it runs, it put's itself in /windows/startup .
This is a inconsequential virus and there's still no need for PPC antivirus software.
Ok how long ago was this? All software changes with time and I am sure even if this was only a couple years ago that a new version may be out. IN any case, your talking about things that kids between 5 and 13 ain't going to do. Like running VTI.
Crippled as in hardware design yes but I see no problem having filtering software on it. Kid's won't like MS Bob like computing either because it looks nothing like what daddy uses.
Does Windows does this? Can Windows automagically get your WEP key (for a home WAP, not the fancy ones that use Radius servers at work...)? No way! SO anyone who dings Linux because of that is just clueless because you HAVE to configure it on Windows.....it's just hidden in nice gooey windows instead of a .conf file.
That said, Linux is not ready for the desktop and the reason is the applications most users want/need do not run on Linux. Some may point to OpenOffice.org but that's just an office suit and most likely the thing that matters least. If you can't run a piece of software bought by your company that you use to actually run your business, then it's useless. Using a computer is more then just what you need at home. if youc an't run your business application on it, then you can't run it no matter how much you like Linux or how many items replace Office. Gimp is nice, but are their classes on learning it? Do artists want to use something other then the software that they paid $$$ for in classes and the software itself? That's the thing. Sure, we may be able to do amazing stuff with the Gimp but if you don't know how to use it and were trained in another package, then it really does not matter does it?