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Hm... the offset appears to be from server time, not (the assumed usual) GMT. While my board time is correct I'm only using an offset of 1. I'm EST(/DST) vs. the server's local CST (e.g. +1 off). But normally I should be using GMT -5 to get the correct time.

I'd be inclined to think the second yellow wire came loose and shorted to something (first yellow?) cooking that corner of the board. There doesn't really appear to be any thing else there it could have hit.

The 4 diodes amount to a bridge rectifier, and give you a DC square wave, then the transformer drops the voltage. The rest is just for the green lite and power conditioning (to avoid the garbage in, garbage out scenario). Not a really complicated widget..

Just thinking out loud.

[much to the chagrin of some who feel it's a serious security/privacy issue]

I'm still waiting for Sprint to get their head out of their ass and offer some proper W8 phones. But for my current W7 phone the office mobile's Outlook tied to exchange does great for scheduled calendar events - I'm hoping/assuming that hasn't changed) - When a scheduled event pops up it plays a sound and a quick glance tells me what it's on about. I don't really need to swipe the phone open it's just there on the lock screen to snooze or dismiss.

How is the camera on the 920? I couldn't care less about the purest nitpicking about maximum bla-bla-bla ... I just want to know if the thing will take a descent picture that will still look right when it gets to a desktop. My current W7 HTC Aspire's performance is less than stellar in that regard.

I've never used my phone with Exchange but as near as I can tell mail hasn't changed moving from WP7 to WP8. Those screen waking "toast" notifications are still in play -- much to the chagrin of some who feel it's a serious security/privacy issue.

I was wondering if that aspect would come up. Personally I'm not worried about it - and love the feature for quick glance info. To me it's really more a matter of how securely you carry the phone. Leaving your phone laying around where some passerby can read toast mesages is just plain foolish ... It's not the phones job to protect people from themselves. If something is kept in ones pocket, it ain't gonna get lost (or read by anyone). If that same thing is laid down in various places every time one moves ... well (duh..!) it's just a matter of time before it gets lost (or "leaks" something it shouldn't have).

The camera is fantastic. The way it stabilizes and compensates for my shaky hands is amazing, which also allows it to keep the shutter open longer in poor lighting making it likely the best low light camera phone on the market. I've seen some complain that images taken in good light are a bit washed out... nothing that can't be fixed with a firmware update. I think it's largely people who were hoping "Nokia PureView" would allow them to give up their SLR. It's still the best in-phone camera I've ever used.

Just took this - if you look closely, it wouldn't hurt to apply a little sharpness I guess.

That'll work.

Thanks.

I'm still waiting for Sprint to get their head out of their ass and offer some proper W8 phones. But for my current W7 phone the office mobile's Outlook tied to exchange does great for scheduled calendar events - I'm hoping/assuming that hasn't changed) - When a scheduled event pops up it plays a sound and a quick glance tells me what it's on about. I don't really need to swipe the phone open it's just there on the lock screen to snooze or dismiss.

How is the camera on the 920? I couldn't care less about the purest nitpicking about maximum bla-bla-bla ... I just want to know if the thing will take a descent picture that will still look right when it gets to a desktop. My current W7 HTC Aspire's performance is less than stellar in that regard.

I'm wondering if any of these work while the clock is being unresponsive.

      /exit   : Exit T-Clock 2010
      /prop   : Open T-Clock 2010 Properties
      /start   : Start the Stopwatch Counter (open as/if needed)
      /stop   : Stop (pause really) the Stopwatch Counter
      /lap   : Record a (the current) Lap Time
      /reset   : Reset Stopwatch to 0 (stop as/if needed)


Also might be worth a shot to try the released with sourcecode build 98 to see if it behaves differently.

[Attackers have found great success with rootkits that infect a Windows machine’s BIOS or Master Boot Record]

Boot-level attacks are on the rise according to security experts. Attackers have found great success with rootkits that infect a Windows machine’s BIOS or Master Boot Record, giving them persistent and often undetected access to a machine. Boot-level attacks can also lead to further malware infections where an attacker can harvest credentials and use an infected computer as a pivot point for attacks on other machines in a network.

I've been seeing many of the MBR variety in the field lately, but hadn't realized the BIOS exploits were off the drawing board and in the wild. Any ideas how one would even go about trying to detect/remove one of those??

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More copyright fun:

http://torrentfreak.com/b...sharing-10-movies-121101/
BitTorrent Pirate Ordered to Pay $1.5 Million Damages For Sharing 10  (porn!) Movies

Well, they better have been lesbian porn, because to my knowledge, the highest paid yet is $780,000.

http://www.news.com.au/ne...ry-fnejlrpu-1226503001489

And that's for the real thing!

I find something (ok...better make it many things) about that story extremely disturbing. Is it just me?

Hay, if somebody is willing to pay top dollar for a blank slate...what's the harm? It wasn't "special"?? 9 time out of 4 "special" is in reality defined as short, confusing, and on somebody's thigh. ...Yeah, getting paid well would ruin that memory...

What?! Much like Friday The 13th the emperor and Vader didn't actually die? 

  ...Darth Vader takes Manhattan..?  Oh crap ... They'll do it if it sells tickets.

Damn peculiar that is. With all of the WMP systems ripped out of N it makes sense that T-Clock would have problems as it is dependent on much of it for its media file handling. But Enterprise shouldn't have any effect on it ... That I can think of.

May haps if we can get a larger test group a trend or commonality could be spotted/found.

Nope...I don't want less government in my life. I want less 'corporation.'

Actually, I want less of both.

+1

I heard way back in the early 90s (before the prequels were even heard of) that Star Wars was originally 9 parts and that the "original" trilogy were the middle 3 parts.

I remember hearing the same back then and was also a bit confused by the 6 part story "update".

In latest case to test how technological developments alter Americans' privacy, federal court sides with Justice Department on police use of concealed surveillance cameras on private property.

I wonder exactly how hard it really is to generate a 'small' EMP..

Sounds more like they're not safe for (Princes and the Pea) iPhones. We've got 20+ cell phones at the office mostly Androids, 2 iPhones, and my Windows 7 phone. All of them charge daily on the $3 (wall and USB)chargers that I got from NewEgg at various points (depending on what was on sale), and none of them died from anything other than getting dropped one to many times.

Come to think of it I don't really know what the iPhones charge off of ... But the Androids and I are perfectly happy with the cheap stuff.

I took a quick try on the font rendering issue today. I replaced the TextOut function call by DrawThemeTextEx which is supposed to paint text on glass surfaces. But the API is highly different. Not only the layouting works differntly, it also requires a Unicode string as opposed to the plain ANSI char* used in the programme. These are obstacles that I cannot easily pass. My C++ skills are too limited, not to mention even more ancient C. If somebody could explain me how to replace TextOut with DrawThemeTextEx correctly, I could possibly make it work. Until now, I only see some random pixels, and for some time, my TClock build won't respond and eventually crash Explorer. Guess I should restart Windows first.

Update: I should restart Explorer correctly. Integrity level Low and High are both wrong, it must be Medium. (Using Process Hacker) This is a bit more complicated to run as, but it works. Then TClock (and all other applications...) works correctly again.

That's the downside of inheriting a program that was originally written in the mid 90's The unicode handling was one of the things that tripped me up as well - The project requires a massive rewrite to resolve this I suspect.

The DrawThemeTextEx (and friends) function(s) was a (really clever) home grown export by Two_toNe, I tried to do what I could with it...But I too have my limits. Best advice I can give is do most of your testing in a VM because T-Clock hooks directly into the shell and will crash it in a flash if something (test code level) goes sideways. During development I ran 3 VMs and 2 Remote Desktop sessions for testing purposes to avoid crashing the shell (constantly...) on my main development machine.

I can't switch off DEP for it.

Nor do you need to ... I'd have never released it if that was a requirement. I run DEP for everything and have NX enabled. T-Clock runs fine.

Are you by chance running the 32-bit binary?

I received an email from EarthLink Business outlining how throughly they were preparing for Sandy's arrival, the day after Sandy left. ...Just in the nick of to late there guys.  

Too bad, no functionality in windows 8. It started to show time, else no reaction.

Strange, it runs fine on my Win8 x86 laptop, and the Win8 x64 machine I have here in my office. The text does seem to move around a bit when the charms bar is opened or closed. But beyond that it did fine throughout the beta, and on the release versions I'm running now.

Maybe we can convince Stoic Joker to update it for Windows 8 as his NANY 2013 project?

My we're persistent...  ...But I don't have a prayer of hitting that target.

Work is leaving me with no time for a life these days...and most of the life I've had time for has been a bitch. *Shrug* ...That's "normal" this close to 50, right..?

HP Deskjet 1000

Which one? If it's a cse/cxi then no, support was dropped at the Win95/NT level. If it's a J110 then you might be able to get the Vista x64 driver to work...but there is no guarantee.

Safest option to try (assuming it's a J110) is the Vista x64 Basic Driver Package from HP's site ... If that doesn't work...nothing will.

[unable to track the percentage of those in the population who always resist attempts for control against them]

This is not desirable as it then leaves the enforcement agencies unable to track the percentage of those in the population who always resist attempts for control against them .

So standing up for yourself is bad.. Lovely (and rather subtle) pitch for weakness is strength there ain't it Ren?

I'm currently in the process of deploying a 2012 server for a new client.

Cool! Could you keep us posted on how you're provisioning it and how it works out? Thx

Unfortunately this dep isn't that exciting. It's just going in as a single DC/file server for a small training facility. I put the OS on a 100GB partition and after configuring the usual AD/DHCP/DNS stuff there is 89.1GB still free.

The setup was (mostly automated, and) straightforward enough that I don't think it's actually possible to screw it up...Although the configuring AD after the install/reboot part did throw me a bit at first. Bare drive to active domain took less than an hour on a Dell R310.

It's huge...it's here...it's cool...and, um...it's got the Metro interface. Better get over it!

Given that they finally came up with a layout for Server Manager that doesn't suck, metro is actually a bit of a plus for server. Everything you're likely to need is either easy to find in SM, or accessible via CMD.

I'm currently in the process of deploying a 2012 server for a new client.

Well now...with all the negativity floating about regarding W8 it's really quite refreshing to see an actual tip on how to use it without hacking it into yesteryear.

Thank you.

Now that's a cool idea. Think I'll add a stack of those to the candy bowl.

MS BitLocker To Go Reader for XP and Vista.