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(Mosaic Screensaver...) Where you at somebody's house and saw the screensaver on their Mac?? The neighbor had a (Mac Leopard) mosaic screensaver running that was positively mesmerizing. A quick Google search turned up these (for Windows):

http://www.animosaix.com/
http://mosaicinfinite.com/

...I'm thinking of trying out the second one.

But I very much hope that some expert here could give an answer WHY there is not a single such program that that just intercepts the pressings of 1 or 2 specific keys, then sends particular scancodes - because technically, this should be possible, and with additional keys, it is. So from a logical point of view, some spcified keys should be taken OUT of this automatic processing of all keys present (by what Windows routine?), and be processed then by tiny, particular software just working for these keys that without this particular treatment would be "dead" now.

Hotkeys come in two flavors, application hotkeys and (registered with the Windows shell) system global hotkeys. So unless you're planning to write a driver for extremely low level access to the keyboard input, you're going to be looking at hooking into one of the myriad of message loops that comprise Windows. When you hook into a loop you have to either handle or pass on (to the next hook) any and everything that comes to you. So while you can filter out only specific keys to respond to...you must at the very least pass the unwanted keys to the next hook. Otherwise nobody handles the key press...and that sort of behavior tends to make users very cranky.

I register and use configurable system global hotkeys in a program called T-Clock. So if you want an example of how the code is/can be done (assuming you can contend with pure C) you can download the complete source from my web site: http://www.stoicjoker.com/TClock/Download.php

When you consider that a lot of businesses are using Skype for communications between employees, handling their customer service, etc., and could be handling data that is supposed to be confidential, subject to NDA's, etc. this is not good.

Outside the rather brilliant sarcasm, I'm pretty sure that was f0dder's point. I've seen tons of different companies that use Yahoo Messenger for *FacePalm* "Internal Messaging"..

This story unlike the one above is real as far as I know.
 (see attachment in previous post)
Cops Bust Prostitution Ring ... at Senior Citizen Home - Neighbors, 75 and 66, are suspected masterminds

From the comments on that article:

This isn't surprising.   The Villages, a Florida retirement community, has the highest per capita rate of venereal disease in the country.   Those old folks still like to get it on.

Being that my wife works in the medical field, in the aforementioned "Villages" I can totally +1 the quote.

...So you're saying I shouldn't (live) Tweet about tomorrow's bank robbery for at least a week then?

 

  Adobe has always had too many problems, especially security problems.  I've experimented with several .pdf readers and the one that I took a liking to was PdfXchangeViewer.  Lots of bells and whistles, opens in a flash either in your browser or as an external viewer as I have mine set.

http://www.tracker-software.com/product/downloads/

I've switched several clients over to PDF-XChange Viewer because Adobe's Acrobat/Reader kept crashing their practice management software (AmazingCharts). It's smaller, faster, and a hell of a lot more stable. Only down side is you have to watch their installer due to the bundled (opt-out) "funware".

Not sure what your keyboard layout is, but some of those devices have a (BIOS) setting that allows the default (Fn key)state to be set between the usual function keys and the special device keys state. Because some people never use the F1-12 keys...and some depend on them.

Just a thought.

I gotta go with barney on this. Hardening a system is more a matter of exposure mitigation ... Reduced user permissions, adherence to a patch policy, and removal of unused anything that could open a port. That is the armor. Weapons are user education so the guy on point isn't blind, deaf, and dumb (answers to Tommy/plays pinball ... Sorry..). These days securing a machine without AV is like going hunting without a waffle iron.

I keep MSE installed on my machine only to keep track of its resource usage and FP rate ... its yet to catch anything before I did.

  No matter how you look at it, SSD's have a higher failure rate than hard drives, and until they get that problem fixed, I'll be sticking with my 7200 RPM drive......

Amen to that!


@40hz - I hear ya man, I spent an absolutely insane amount of time agonizing over which way to do the arrays (IOPS...) on the new Hyper-V Data Center. Yes every time I called (HP) the distributer's support line I got a different guy with a different school of thought as I diced between RAID5 vs. 10 (I was trying to get away from 5 due to previous discussions - Yet nobody agreed). I ended up with dual 8 disc hot-swap controllers; mirrored set of 15,000RPM SAS drives for the host OS, and the guests all sit on an 8 disk 7200RPM Nearline SATA RAID 5 array. The system is stunningly fast, and I haven't seen the thread queue even get to 1 yet with 12 systems running on it.

that sounds like a reasonable statement to me

Me too ... But I'm not a hardware guy either. I was under the impression that (seek time being roughly fixed) latency was reduced by the higher spindle rates...which resulted in faster access times.

It's not so much he's wrong about 10,000 RPM being faster than 5400RPM - depending on what is meant by "faster.". But it's a mistake to simply equate raw spindle speed and cache size with disk performance, which is what he seems to be implying.

Seems like it's more a case of what the crew is inferring...

Partitioning, I/O  distribution on the disk, I/O bus width, cluster size, filesystem(s) used, and several other factors have a much more direct and measurable effect on overall performance than just the spindle speed or cache size.

...Yes, but these are all factors that are external to the central moving parts vs. non moving parts theme. As these are all factors that could effect either design by a users bad install, or by using a cheap MBoard.

If as mouser eludes all other possible random factors are fixed as accepted equals, and the distinction is narrowed to pro/con of moving vs. non moving designs ... In that context is makes sense. But then again I like the lower speed drives because the bearings last longer if they spin slower, and I've gotten stuck arguing with some sales-tard at BestBuy enough times that persisted in pushing the issue that the 7200+ RPM drives would be faster that I'd have to assert that it is a rather popular (miss)conception..

that sounds like a reasonable statement to me

Me too ... But I'm not a hardware guy either. I was under the impression that (seek time being roughly fixed) latency was reduced by the higher spindle rates...which resulted in faster access times.

New Prenda Law Shell Corp Threatening to Tell Your Neighbors You Pirated Porn
http://yro.slashdot.org/s...eighbors-you-pirated-porn

From reading through the comments, it appears that Prenda is "specializing" in specifically gay porn. Which has a much higher knee-jerk reaction (closet...) factor. So they are specifically targeting the people that are the most likely have a vested interest in keeping things as quiet as possible. Because it impossible to be in court and "the closet" at the same time ...(hence)... Pay up or we'll out you.

These people should be burned at the stake, in the town square, and on live TV.

What logging options does you router have? Many can report various events to a syslog server ... So if you syslog DHCP events (assuming your router handles DHCP), that should catch most network visitors.

SSDs, and solid-state storage in general, have a disturbing tendency toward binary functionality.

A disturbing tendency towards binary functional... LOL ...We used to just call that "light-bulbing" ...Nice to know they have a fancy new name for it now.

Until there is a recovery option that I can do myself I'll be sticking with the (good) "old fashion" mechanical drives.

Perhaps a combination of the plane tumbling a bit while (quite literally) falling out of the air, and the pilot overcorrecting then freezing, as the pane gets just enough air speed (from gravity) to "amplify" the tumble.

WT... That's a joke...right? IIRC Bermuda's mystery was already solved as random methane gas pocket releases.

service termination timeout is out of admissable values

This sounds like the crap advise you'd expect from hoax-systemscanners.
I'd get a second opinion, by using one...

+1 - Download Kaspersky Rescue Disk 10 Offline bootable CD that has worked wonders for me in the past. Granted it ain't fast...but it ain't missed anything yet either.

(any) Lubrication == Bad.

This thread seems appropriate: Why did it never occur to me.. You can wash a keyboard in water.

Data should be cached on end-user computers and the caching should be intelligent enough to predict what data the user would likely need next and download it from the cloud in advance. The cloud should work even if the connection to the whole internet is severed and only connections to local computers remain. If the data is on any of the local computers, it should be accessible.

Microsoft's Exchange Online offers a hybrid cloud option that does basically that. Local and remote systems work together to ensure the highest possible availability. So if the company internet goes down, the in-house staff still have access to the local Exchange server, and the road warriors have access to the cloud server. I'm actually toying with implementing an Exchange hybrid cloud solution here because we're jumping to Exchange 2013 as part of the Private Cloud services I'm setting up on our new rack system.

u know, I've been noticing that the media seems to insist that the benefits of subscription cloud services are "undeniable".  And I'm getting really annoyed by it.  Not because there are no benefits, there are.  But the way they say it, it makes it sound like the local installation does NOT have any benefits.  And those who don't understand the differences hear this and it seems like it is gaining momentum.

The media is behaving like any good lapdog and doing exactly what they're told. The one pivotally critical detail that the cloud shills miss/overlook/ignore is the simple fact that the internet does not exist as a singular thing. It is a ramshackle group of discontiguous networks that just-so-happen to share relatively well with their neighbors. but any break in the chain of resold (to the Nth power) services that comprise the sum total internet could quite easily cripple a company if it decided to have a hiccup either at the right time, or for a long enough time. I've already had a (client's) cloud provider claim that a problem had to be on my (our collective) end because they could access the servers (INTERNALLY!!!) just fine... Yet I'm looking right at a trace route report that clearly says that their up level provider just took a shit because that is exactly where all the packet movement stops!

I've already gone ballistic on the phone when one of the cloud sales drones made the mistake of telling me that their total downtime for the previous year was only 11 minutes. Because I don't give a flying what their down time is ... I need to ensure that everybody between point A, and point B stays just dandy so my company's down time doesn't spike us right into the toilet. Because if a drunk hits a pole up the street from me, and the local utility company doesn't get it fixed really soon... Guess what? My company is blind as a bat trying to function .. Regardless of whether or not the "cloud" is allegedly construed as being "up" (I'm still getting fisted).

[I'm predicting they'll get very little]

I'm also guessing Microsoft and Intuit will wait until to see how much pushback Adobe actually gets. (I'm predicting they'll get very little.)

Sadly, you're quite likely right...as there is already a pattern of sanctimonious posturing going on in he Register comments on the article posted above. High handed comments about it legally no big deal if you really have a valid legal license will quickly make people nervous about pushing too hard for fear of looking like a pirate.

Thanks to henriko for sharing a fix, and LonelyPixel for creating and sharing a build including the fix. I really still haven't even had time to fix my own copy...

@LonelyPixel - If you like, I can add the link to your build to the first post so it's easier for people to find...else it might get lost back here on page 19. I'm still getting about 9 Emails a week about that bugg...So there's a huge calling for it.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-22347199

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA...82931&section=1206828

http://www.cbsnews.com/83...-air-base-in-afghanistan/

http://www.foxnews.com/wo...rash-at-bagram-air-field/

It appears to be all over the news ... What am I missing?

It was on the ABC news here the other day (when it happened).

[desktop as a service]

@40hz - Yepper scares me to.

Apparently Mohoro will be a way to use the Windows desktop in a software-as-a-service way, dubbed "desktop as a service."

Behold! ...Windows DaaStardly.