Franklin suffered severe nerve damage in his hands playing this. The vibrations cause the neveres to goes nuts in his hand, and he basically told everyoe to stop playing these things. It wasn't until late 1790s when someone developed a piano like interface that these started bein used again...
Man, gotta love those 8th grade reports I did 8 years ago.
Actaully, I/am/ an American, born and raised here. Like it or not most.us-ians/are/ arsemunches, but the flip side of the coin is that most people are arsemunches.
Polite my ass, just yesterday I was walking down in Downtown and accidently tripped on a woman walking the opposite way, I turned to apologize, and before I coudl get out "Excu..." she suddenly whips around and starts yelling "Why don't you watch where the @$#@ you're going?"./Real/ polite people.
Pardon me, I know that most Americans are a bunch of arsemunches, but isn't the Internet supposed be a/global/ medium designed to let people communicated despite where they are?
In my experience, Dell is top notch in Tech support services. I find their supprt staff clueful (mostly, you still get the occasional person who reads off the screen) and not hesitant to send out a replacement part. Opposed to Gateway where its like pulling teeth trying to convince them that you need a replacement part, or Toshiba who will not replace a hard drive until it has 20% bad sectors (HDD was 1-2 years old and was rapidly failing, it had a 3 year service agreement).
Bottom Line: (IMHO) Dell rocks, Gateway Sucks and don't use Toshiba unless you like bending over.
OK, this is very cool and I can't count how many projects I would love to do with this...
That being said, is this smart? Picture: 10 years from now, some company sells one of these things, and it takes off. Then somebody finds a nasty security hole that fscks the toaster up. Would you like it if suddenly you find your house burnt down by some script kiddie doing a port scan? Everything connected to the net is not always a good idea.
So, binaries are good. You just have to wait few days with a root compromise in your computer. Sorry, I don't like have huge holes in my server while waiting for a vendor patch, just a personal thing.
(Honestly, you shouldn't either, thats why you should patch any hole immediately)
Thanks a lot. I can download now. woohoo! Of course, the UMass sysadmin is going to be wonder why 50,000 geeks are clicking to your home directory now.
OK, lets announce a major secuirty whole in a prouct that a good chunk of people use, then link to their website so that no one can download the patch(es).
Yeah... Real smart.
Honestly, when I want security updates, I'll read BUGTRAQ, when I want light fluff about the latest Stallman-ism, I'll read/. (Still, if you want to do this, add a security section or something, jeez)
An unpatched IIS server on the intranet is still a problem. On our Intranet behind our massive firewall-o-doom, one of our developers ran an unpatched IIS server (unbenownst to IT). Someone from another department, who/also/ was running an unpatched IIS server somehow got infected with Nimda, compromised the developer's server.
Result? About 2 straight days of various servers getting their shares filled with.eml and.nws files. (Yes, we were running Virus protection, up until 2 days into the attack, Norton's virii definitions did not stop the virus from completely executing, it just stopped it from infecting machine)
So, Yes, its not the same, but, there are still major problems from running servers with holes, and it should not be done.
We've also got an NT4 webserver running IIS, and it's been up for 3 months. It would have been up longer except I had to shut the box down to move it.
So, when's the last time youve applied patches on that box? 3 months uptime means you are missing at least 1 major IIS patch that plugs a hole that allows an attacker to run arbitrary code.
It brings up the question, Why do developers lie about features in a device - especially if they are features that are wanted?
Easy, one word: Support. I am quite sure that Handspring doesn't feel like supporting a million handsping Treo's where their users downloaded the lastest PalmOS upgrade that theire neighbor used on their m 505 and burnt out thier Treo. I am reminded of the PA cartoon where nintendo has to support GBAs when peoepl try to install the Portable Monopoly sytem.
Maybe they planned to tell us later, maybe its a fluke and is only in certain models. Who cares?
I could see myself using the iBook. I've been seriosuly considering purchasing a used iMac to fiddle with OS X. The Fujitsu model... Well... there is such a thing as too small, you know?:)
Eh... I just don't see it. I've been a college nomad for almost 5 years now (and graduating soon thankfully) and have lived at no less then 6 seperate dorms (don't ask, funky scheduling). I would much rather have a desktop as no one can fit a desktop under their shirt and stoll out of the building with it.
Although come to think of it, the laptop may be so big that doing that could be impossible, hence bridging the gap...;-)
since we are in a pissing contest...;-) TI Laptop, 8MB RAM, 84MB HDD, B&W VGA display. Slackware 7.1 Linux 2.2.18. PLIP + fetchmail + homebrew script = Being able to read/answer my mail on the bus into work every morning. I think of it as an Palm-on-steroids.
16.1"? Why? Whats the point? Aren't laptops supposed to be/portable/? The last thing I want is to carry around a 16.1" diagonal behemoth, I'd much rather keep my 12.1" P2 300, which I can easily fit in my backpack.
Granted it is Microsoft's fault this stupid stupid exploit happened in the first place, but it's also interesting to note that the fix for 80% of these problems have been available for over a year virtually unnoticed.
Oh, it has been noticed. But unfortunately, it breaks more then it fixes, 'normal' (as in/real/ normal, not this "open up the word document in the e-mail thing") attachment use is broken beyond belief. Attachments get randomly locked, certain file associations get wiped out across the system. The reason why no one downloads it is because it breaks more then it fixes. I rolled it out on two machines as a test run and they had nothing but complaints, jst to see how bad it was I downloaded it onto my machine and i nearly pulled all my hair out trying to repair what I had before that this nasty patch wiped out. Not fun. I had to reinstall Lookout on every machine that got it and applied their "lite" version of their patch included in the Office Service Pack which had most of the anal restrictions removed.
I hate to tell everyone, but IE has become to the de facto standard for web sites.
I hate it too, but the sad truth is, there are not enough users of other web browsers to justify $BIGCORP investing $BIGNUM bucks to make their website 'standards compliant' when someone can hire a monkey that knows how to point and drool in Frontpage to make a pretty website. This isn't a call for more standards commitees, its a call to make your neighbor/friend/guy on the street use something other then IE. Only then will we see a standard compliant web.
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Franklin suffered severe nerve damage in his hands playing this. The vibrations cause the neveres to goes nuts in his hand, and he basically told everyoe to stop playing these things. It wasn't until late 1790s when someone developed a piano like interface that these started bein used again...
Man, gotta love those 8th grade reports I did 8 years ago.
Actaully, I /am/ an American, born and raised here. Like it or not most .us-ians /are/ arsemunches, but the flip side of the coin is that most people are arsemunches.
/Real/ polite people.
Polite my ass, just yesterday I was walking down in Downtown and accidently tripped on a woman walking the opposite way, I turned to apologize, and before I coudl get out "Excu..." she suddenly whips around and starts yelling "Why don't you watch where the @$#@ you're going?".
Don't jump to conclusions buddy.
Pardon me, I know that most Americans are a bunch of arsemunches, but isn't the Internet supposed be a /global/ medium designed to let people communicated despite where they are?
Oh well... Time to move to Andora.
If I combine this with the morse code panic patch, I could have my own techno dance studio! Flashing lights and all!
I installed it on Visual Studio and now my computer keeps singing Unforgiven by Metallica, what do I do?
You ever hear of that innocent until proved guilty thing? It has to apply to everyone, including people you don't like.
Its the same way that freedom of speech needs to apply to people that advocate things that you would lifetime working against.
In my experience, Dell is top notch in Tech support services. I find their supprt staff clueful (mostly, you still get the occasional person who reads off the screen) and not hesitant to send out a replacement part. Opposed to Gateway where its like pulling teeth trying to convince them that you need a replacement part, or Toshiba who will not replace a hard drive until it has 20% bad sectors (HDD was 1-2 years old and was rapidly failing, it had a 3 year service agreement).
Bottom Line: (IMHO) Dell rocks, Gateway Sucks and don't use Toshiba unless you like bending over.
Check please! When can I get on Internet2?
OK, this is very cool and I can't count how many projects I would love to do with this...
That being said, is this smart?
Picture: 10 years from now, some company sells one of these things, and it takes off. Then somebody finds a nasty security hole that fscks the toaster up. Would you like it if suddenly you find your house burnt down by some script kiddie doing a port scan?
Everything connected to the net is not always a good idea.
So, binaries are good. You just have to wait few days with a root compromise in your computer. Sorry, I don't like have huge holes in my server while waiting for a vendor patch, just a personal thing.
(Honestly, you shouldn't either, thats why you should patch any hole immediately)
Thanks a lot. I can download now. woohoo! Of course, the UMass sysadmin is going to be wonder why 50,000 geeks are clicking to your home directory now.
:)
Personally, I would expect an e-mail from him
OK, lets announce a major secuirty whole in a prouct that a good chunk of people use, then link to their website so that no one can download the patch(es).
/.
Yeah... Real smart.
Honestly, when I want security updates, I'll read BUGTRAQ, when I want light fluff about the latest Stallman-ism, I'll read
(Still, if you want to do this, add a security section or something, jeez)
An unpatched IIS server on the intranet is still a problem. On our Intranet behind our massive firewall-o-doom, one of our developers ran an unpatched IIS server (unbenownst to IT). Someone from another department, who /also/ was running an unpatched IIS server somehow got infected with Nimda, compromised the developer's server.
.eml and .nws files. (Yes, we were running Virus protection, up until 2 days into the attack, Norton's virii definitions did not stop the virus from completely executing, it just stopped it from infecting machine)
Result? About 2 straight days of various servers getting their shares filled with
So, Yes, its not the same, but, there are still major problems from running servers with holes, and it should not be done.
We've also got an NT4 webserver running IIS, and it's been up for 3 months. It would have been up longer except I had to shut the box down to move it.
So, when's the last time youve applied patches on that box? 3 months uptime means you are missing at least 1 major IIS patch that plugs a hole that allows an attacker to run arbitrary code.
whoa... Typo city. I need my coffee.
I could see myself using the iBook. I've been seriosuly considering purchasing a used iMac to fiddle with OS X. :)
The Fujitsu model... Well... there is such a thing as too small, you know?
Eh... I just don't see it.
;-)
I've been a college nomad for almost 5 years now (and graduating soon thankfully) and have lived at no less then 6 seperate dorms (don't ask, funky scheduling). I would much rather have a desktop as no one can fit a desktop under their shirt and stoll out of the building with it.
Although come to think of it, the laptop may be so big that doing that could be impossible, hence bridging the gap...
since we are in a pissing contest... ;-)
TI Laptop, 8MB RAM, 84MB HDD, B&W VGA display. Slackware 7.1 Linux 2.2.18. PLIP + fetchmail + homebrew script = Being able to read/answer my mail on the bus into work every morning. I think of it as an Palm-on-steroids.
16.1"? Why? Whats the point? Aren't laptops supposed to be /portable/? The last thing I want is to carry around a 16.1" diagonal behemoth, I'd much rather keep my 12.1" P2 300, which I can easily fit in my backpack.
Nonono... You must be thinking of Microsoft's ActiveBank.NET technology.
You've obviously never worked with VB Developers. ;-)
Don't get me started on software jockeys, they have enough problems in their own right.
I hate it too, but the sad truth is, there are not enough users of other web browsers to justify $BIGCORP investing $BIGNUM bucks to make their website 'standards compliant' when someone can hire a monkey that knows how to point and drool in Frontpage to make a pretty website. This isn't a call for more standards commitees, its a call to make your neighbor/friend/guy on the street use something other then IE. Only then will we see a standard compliant web.