Last time I checked, Safari Adblock doesn't work with Windows. It's a Mac-only plugin. Privoxy, as the elder sibling mentioned, is what I use for adblocking in all the browsers except Firefox.
Five bucks only? Last time I checked, they want you to subscribe a minimum of 3 months for the "monthly subscription". Thats $15 minimum just to get their software. $5/month my ass.
Since the customerwants to do other things while driving and the customer is always right, I don't see the distraction factor going down no matter what kind of enhancements are made to the nav system.
My parents' recent purchase of a Buick Allure has this info centre feature with some settings you can fiddle around. The manual says you must put the gear in park before you can change the settings, and I think this is the best safety feature that GM had made. Now, I don't see a reason why the route for the NAV system should be set or modified while the car is in motion. The idea can also be applied here: Don't even let the driver create the distraction.
FWIW, "your-2r8c40dfb2" or "your-34slks32sc" or similar (I don't know the exact number of letters off the top of my head) match the default Compaq naming pattern, at least for Presario laptops--my gf's shows up as something like that on my AP, and I've seen one or two others that did likewise.
Close, but no cigar. It's XP's way of uniquely naming a computer. It uses the first word of the organization plus a "random" jumble of characters to make up the computer name. If the user accepts the default name in the end-user setup (aka mini-setup in the OEM world), or was never given the chance to change, this would result.
How about my damned cable company (or phone company) that charges me an extra $10 a month because I just want a highspeed internet connection but don't want their cable offerings or long distance plan?
IANA Cable Guy, but my cable company claims that the $10 / month is for the cable maintenance charge. This is usually included with the TV package but not the Internet. At least they're being honest and not charge you an extra $10 on maintenance if you have both the TV and Internet.
A few years back, my univ. uses spamgard to "filter" junk mail. Before having it turned on, I was getting about 5 spam per day. After turning it on with the default messages and such and leaving it for about a few months netted me with more than 20 hits per day (none of them get through, of course, because none of them were smart enough to reply). Unfortunately, due to limited space on my Unix account, the log file started to fill up. I decided to model my outgoing letter (the one that gets sent if the email isn't accepted yet) to look similar to a bounce email. Let that simmer for a few months resulted in 0 hits now.
It was a good thing that I did this. Within a year, they replaced it with spamassassin, and I haven't figured out how to work it to act similar to spamgard.
Now, I'm very tempted to do the same thing to my Hotmail account...
One of my courses I'm taking now teaches people how to administer Windows XP Pro. They only had SP1 CD's for installation. Once I had it installed on my removable HD, I went immediately to Windows Update for SP2. Suprisingly enough, it's not available yet!
I know I can go download the network edition (which I promptly do), but I'm surprised that it is still not available to everybody. And what about all my classmates who don't know any better? Their HD's will be f*ed, although the window would be small, since we're not supposed to do anything else with their HD other than to do labs.
Add to that, my school's labs are all still running XP SP1. Fortuantely, there's an alternative (Netscape 7.2) for those who avoid the big blue E or for those students who had to use it because the teacher tells them to (horray!), but there is still an IE icon. I guess I could blame the admins here, but I definitely know that there will be trouble tomorrow if more of this worm is still around.
I saw a show called "Pet Guys" and they have a (recurring?) guest on the show training one of the hosts' dog. This is just generic training, like sit or stay, etc. The trainer's suggestion to the host was to consistently use the dog's name followed by the command. This would prevent the dog from "eavesdropping" on your conversation with a friend and do things you don't want it to do.
Now, mind you, IANADO (I am not a dog owner), so I don't know whether this works or not.
The "Storage Matrix" is an interesting improvement. It can essentially chop up your HD into several smaller pieces for you to do a mixure of RAID.
For example: You have two 120GB HD. You use the first half of it in a RAID 1 for the system drive and all your important data. Then on the same two HDs, you use the second half for RAID 0 for the performance boost, say video data.
My quick glance at the article didn't mention this, although their 915/925 chipset pictures did show this.
Actually, it's still the white text on blue. I had the "luxury" of testing LH on Intel's i865 and i875 chipsets (tested in mobos made by Intel, ASUS, DFI and others), but all I got was it complaining that it can't find the media. On i430VX, i440BX, and i845, they all work fine, along with some VIA chipsets.
Note that all these were just booting from the CD. No installation had even taken place yet (mmm... CD BSoDs).
I saw it on Ripley's Believe It Or Not that there is a type of t-shirt that does not allow odor to pass through it. ThinkGeek should think about using those:)
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My combination was pretty much bunkered down during the "logo" part. I can't remember what I used for disabling the f-keys (it was at least 5 years ago), but anyway...
I had two accounts, one was the guest (which the students used, poledited to only a bunch of programs at the top of the start menu, no desktop icons), one was the admin for installing more stuff on the computer. We also needed the "Client for Windows Network" because we needed some network drives (try using Windows Logon and it asks you to login).
Now Client for WinNet has a dialog box for logging in, stores the password for the Windows Logon in the PWL files (that is, it uses both items to login), and Windows Logon has its own login only.
When you login as Admin without typing a password, WinNet will let you pass, but still asks you for the password in the Windows Logon. Press ESC at this dialog box, and you're in the admin account, even if you don't have the password for it.
Here's one, or search for "email processor no experience necessary" in your favourite search engine.
Seriously, I actually saw this as a "real" job on Workopolis one time in the students category. I guess they smartened up and killed those postings.
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There is a way of turning that off. In fact, before FoolProof, we had the poledit to limit the softwares, switches=/f/n in config.sys, and safemode=0 in msdos.sys (you can even turn off scandisk, but I ran it as automatic). The only problem with this is that people are still getting in if I have an admin account on the computer (MSNet doesn't check at all).
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Well, my friends kept on telling me this, but I don't get it... How can you run the memory editor if I'm only allowing certain programs to run (and the mem editor isn't one of them)?
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Which is why, right off the bat, I installed FoolProof on my school computers. Ok, it's not the best security software out there, but at least it kept most of them out.
Then they had to buy newer machines with NT4 Workstations and no NT Server. That's when the students go crazy and started installing warez'ed games on them. I even wacked one remotely right when they were copying the archives on the HD.
Then get one of those ASUS FX cards that supports the SmartDoctor 2 software.
I was surprised that when I was testing an ASUS V9520 Video Suite at work, the fan didn't spin until I started playing ga... err running benchmarks. I thought I broke the fan:).
They've actually blocked port 25 for business lines in the name of killing open relays. Of course, those of us who actually did the smtp server correctly suffered. Luckily for us, we got a port forwarding service from our domain provider.
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I'd rather call it war-commuting.
Last time I checked, Safari Adblock doesn't work with Windows. It's a Mac-only plugin. Privoxy, as the elder sibling mentioned, is what I use for adblocking in all the browsers except Firefox.
Yup. After doing some field tests on the mice, this error message keeps popping up:
Five bucks only? Last time I checked, they want you to subscribe a minimum of 3 months for the "monthly subscription". Thats $15 minimum just to get their software. $5/month my ass.
Since the customerwants to do other things while driving and the customer is always right, I don't see the distraction factor going down no matter what kind of enhancements are made to the nav system.
My parents' recent purchase of a Buick Allure has this info centre feature with some settings you can fiddle around. The manual says you must put the gear in park before you can change the settings, and I think this is the best safety feature that GM had made. Now, I don't see a reason why the route for the NAV system should be set or modified while the car is in motion. The idea can also be applied here: Don't even let the driver create the distraction.
Canada! We're going to invade Canada for land!
Yeah, I'm Canadian, so here:
F) Or anyplace subject to below zero temperatures.
FWIW, "your-2r8c40dfb2" or "your-34slks32sc" or similar (I don't know the exact number of letters off the top of my head) match the default Compaq naming pattern, at least for Presario laptops--my gf's shows up as something like that on my AP, and I've seen one or two others that did likewise.
Close, but no cigar. It's XP's way of uniquely naming a computer. It uses the first word of the organization plus a "random" jumble of characters to make up the computer name. If the user accepts the default name in the end-user setup (aka mini-setup in the OEM world), or was never given the chance to change, this would result.
who's to say that the space shuttle and early warp ship shown in the intro are american?
It was established in ST: First Contact that the first warp ship came from Montana.
How about my damned cable company (or phone company) that charges me an extra $10 a month because I just want a highspeed internet connection but don't want their cable offerings or long distance plan?
IANA Cable Guy, but my cable company claims that the $10 / month is for the cable maintenance charge. This is usually included with the TV package but not the Internet. At least they're being honest and not charge you an extra $10 on maintenance if you have both the TV and Internet.
Or, in this case, %ProgramFiles%
Let it be a warning - install smoke alarms near your PC if you leave it running unattended.
<voice char="Agent Smith">
What good is a smoke alarm when you are unable to hear?
</voice>
A few years back, my univ. uses spamgard to "filter" junk mail. Before having it turned on, I was getting about 5 spam per day. After turning it on with the default messages and such and leaving it for about a few months netted me with more than 20 hits per day (none of them get through, of course, because none of them were smart enough to reply). Unfortunately, due to limited space on my Unix account, the log file started to fill up. I decided to model my outgoing letter (the one that gets sent if the email isn't accepted yet) to look similar to a bounce email. Let that simmer for a few months resulted in 0 hits now.
It was a good thing that I did this. Within a year, they replaced it with spamassassin, and I haven't figured out how to work it to act similar to spamgard.
Now, I'm very tempted to do the same thing to my Hotmail account...
One of my courses I'm taking now teaches people how to administer Windows XP Pro. They only had SP1 CD's for installation. Once I had it installed on my removable HD, I went immediately to Windows Update for SP2. Suprisingly enough, it's not available yet!
I know I can go download the network edition (which I promptly do), but I'm surprised that it is still not available to everybody. And what about all my classmates who don't know any better? Their HD's will be f*ed, although the window would be small, since we're not supposed to do anything else with their HD other than to do labs.
Add to that, my school's labs are all still running XP SP1. Fortuantely, there's an alternative (Netscape 7.2) for those who avoid the big blue E or for those students who had to use it because the teacher tells them to (horray!), but there is still an IE icon. I guess I could blame the admins here, but I definitely know that there will be trouble tomorrow if more of this worm is still around.
Naa... you just can't transfer more than 100 pounds of deer meat over the Internet.
I saw a show called "Pet Guys" and they have a (recurring?) guest on the show training one of the hosts' dog. This is just generic training, like sit or stay, etc. The trainer's suggestion to the host was to consistently use the dog's name followed by the command. This would prevent the dog from "eavesdropping" on your conversation with a friend and do things you don't want it to do.
Now, mind you, IANADO (I am not a dog owner), so I don't know whether this works or not.
The "Storage Matrix" is an interesting improvement. It can essentially chop up your HD into several smaller pieces for you to do a mixure of RAID.
For example: You have two 120GB HD. You use the first half of it in a RAID 1 for the system drive and all your important data. Then on the same two HDs, you use the second half for RAID 0 for the performance boost, say video data.
My quick glance at the article didn't mention this, although their 915/925 chipset pictures did show this.
Actually, it's still the white text on blue. I had the "luxury" of testing LH on Intel's i865 and i875 chipsets (tested in mobos made by Intel, ASUS, DFI and others), but all I got was it complaining that it can't find the media. On i430VX, i440BX, and i845, they all work fine, along with some VIA chipsets.
Note that all these were just booting from the CD. No installation had even taken place yet (mmm... CD BSoDs).
I saw it on Ripley's Believe It Or Not that there is a type of t-shirt that does not allow odor to pass through it. ThinkGeek should think about using those :)
My combination was pretty much bunkered down during the "logo" part. I can't remember what I used for disabling the f-keys (it was at least 5 years ago), but anyway...
I had two accounts, one was the guest (which the students used, poledited to only a bunch of programs at the top of the start menu, no desktop icons), one was the admin for installing more stuff on the computer. We also needed the "Client for Windows Network" because we needed some network drives (try using Windows Logon and it asks you to login).
Now Client for WinNet has a dialog box for logging in, stores the password for the Windows Logon in the PWL files (that is, it uses both items to login), and Windows Logon has its own login only.
When you login as Admin without typing a password, WinNet will let you pass, but still asks you for the password in the Windows Logon. Press ESC at this dialog box, and you're in the admin account, even if you don't have the password for it.
Here's one, or search for "email processor no experience necessary" in your favourite search engine.
Seriously, I actually saw this as a "real" job on Workopolis one time in the students category. I guess they smartened up and killed those postings.
There is a way of turning that off. In fact, before FoolProof, we had the poledit to limit the softwares, switches=/f/n in config.sys, and safemode=0 in msdos.sys (you can even turn off scandisk, but I ran it as automatic). The only problem with this is that people are still getting in if I have an admin account on the computer (MSNet doesn't check at all).
Well, my friends kept on telling me this, but I don't get it... How can you run the memory editor if I'm only allowing certain programs to run (and the mem editor isn't one of them)?
Which is why, right off the bat, I installed FoolProof on my school computers. Ok, it's not the best security software out there, but at least it kept most of them out.
Then they had to buy newer machines with NT4 Workstations and no NT Server. That's when the students go crazy and started installing warez'ed games on them. I even wacked one remotely right when they were copying the archives on the HD.
Then get one of those ASUS FX cards that supports the SmartDoctor 2 software.
:).
I was surprised that when I was testing an ASUS V9520 Video Suite at work, the fan didn't spin until I started playing ga... err running benchmarks. I thought I broke the fan
They've actually blocked port 25 for business lines in the name of killing open relays. Of course, those of us who actually did the smtp server correctly suffered. Luckily for us, we got a port forwarding service from our domain provider.