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Living Room / Re: Reader's Corner - The Library of Utopia

« Last post by Stoic Joker on July 06, 2012, 01:18 PM »

What I really wish would happen is if a cultural shift made "the new hotness" to be Creative Commons licensing, then all this copyright stuff would be like wearing bell bottom pants (and not as a retro joke).

-TaoPhoenix (July 06, 2012, 11:52 AM)

But I like bell bottoms, they fit much better over my engineer boots.

Besides, now is a bad time to blink on the IoE front. We need to keep pushing for a scorched earth solution that completely evaporates the **AA crowd.

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Living Room / Re: Reader's Corner - The Library of Utopia

« Last post by Stoic Joker on July 06, 2012, 11:32 AM »

All that futzing about with the document will most assuredly have an adverse effect on the the user experience/device performance. We get a laggy reading experience and they get to shove a flashlight up our asses.

There is no good use for this technology.

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Living Room / Re: Sorry, This Post Has Been Censored

« Last post by Stoic Joker on July 05, 2012, 11:45 AM »

The pious and sanctimonious defenders of "good"/the children/pulchritude/whatever... should all be introduced to this Streisand effect by having it engraved on a cinderblock that is then dropped on their heads.  Maybe then they'd have enough sense to - take some of their own advice... - hold their tongues.

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Living Room / Re: Petition to block MPAA Using Megaupload Case as Backdoor SOPA/PIPA Scheme

« Last post by Stoic Joker on July 01, 2012, 10:46 AM »

Signed.

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Living Room / Re: Someone may be maliciously using my domain name

« Last post by Stoic Joker on July 01, 2012, 09:01 AM »

Recently I have been getting returned mail delivery errors stating that "somerandomname(at)mydomainnamehere(dot)com" could not be delivered, because the recipient doesn't exist.

-nite_monkey (June 29, 2012, 12:44 PM)

Critical point that appears to be getting missed here is a little something called NDR (Non Delivery Report) Spam. The point of which is two fold. Back before Mail Admins made a practice of throttling back on the events that warranted an NDR. Malicious types would send mail to a server that was intentionally addressed wrong, just to force the mail server to crash itself with a flood of (self generated) NDRs.

On the flip side, the practice is still used to bypass (server level) spam filters by tricking the server into delivering the mail to the target by way of a delivery failure notice. e.g. the phony from address (you) is actually the intended target...the to address is intentionally invalid which forces the server to "return" it to the (now intended) target.

This is why I severely limit the NDR reports that are allowed by our mail server.

One thing to try is to send an Email to an invalid address to see what your mail servers NDRs are supposed to look like. As it's entirely possible (they won't match) that the mail is getting (bank shotted) bounced a few times before it gets to you.

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Living Room / Re: Would You Like a Flying **** [NSFW]

« Last post by Stoic Joker on June 28, 2012, 07:12 PM »

I would love to have a flying fuck, just so I could actually not give it.

 

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Living Room / Re: DOTCOM saga - updates

« Last post by Stoic Joker on June 28, 2012, 11:48 AM »

They completely destroyed Megaupload. It's gone. It will NEVER recover. Other sites have been shutting down in mass numbers because they're all scared to shit of the same thing happening to them. Megaupload was the first summary execution.

-Renegade (June 28, 2012, 11:01 AM)

Agreed. They never gave a damn if the charges would "stick" ... They just wanted to sit back and watch the Shock and Awe ripple effect. The Italians did the same type of thing in Chicago back in the 40s. But the Feds thought that was criminal.

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Living Room / Re: Facebook Changed Everyone’s Email to @Facebook.com; Here’s How to Fix It

« Last post by Stoic Joker on June 26, 2012, 11:26 AM »

They're just trying to cull out the last of the few people there left with an ounce of common sense so the rest can be quietly volunteeded (via EULA update) to participate in testing of their new Soylent Green line of products.

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Living Room / Re: This Is Your Brain On Sugar:Study in Rats Shows...

« Last post by Stoic Joker on June 26, 2012, 07:05 AM »

Thankyou for thinking of me...     

-IainB (June 25, 2012, 10:09 PM)

Hay if the South can spend the last 100+ years claiming it was going to rise again ... Then we can bring back the 70s.

You Damn Straight!

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General Software Discussion / Re: Checking Bad sector in HDD and ExtHDD

« Last post by Stoic Joker on June 26, 2012, 06:53 AM »

The OP has now said the drive was dropped, (it's like getting blood from a stone with some people ), if it was me, I wouldn't be using it any more - most likely the heads would have bounced which won't have done them any good.

-4wd (June 25, 2012, 09:19 PM)

...You gotta watch those pesky details. 

 

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General Software Discussion / Re: corrupt index (I think): how to fix?

« Last post by Stoic Joker on June 26, 2012, 06:47 AM »

Driver updates. Don't you just love it when it's that easy?

-40hz (June 26, 2012, 05:27 AM)

He must have gotten a hold of the same screwed up version I did awhile back when my RAID5 array kept coming unwound. Driver I'd used for years had been fine, found an updated one...shit hit the fan, found yet another (even newer) one...and its been quiet ever since.

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General Software Discussion / Re: corrupt index (I think): how to fix?

« Last post by Stoic Joker on June 22, 2012, 02:52 PM »

Here's another tip that will work out great for you:
When a PC has been transported (even over a small distance like 10 cm.) it is possible that (a) connector(s) got loose. Each and every time! I can't warn people enough about that. If I got 1000 USD for each time I solved a (hairy) situation with the solution above I could have stopped working for a living 5 years ago. People underestimate this problem in so many ways that it baffles me.

-Shades (June 22, 2012, 01:21 PM)

Move PC off desk.
Put PC back on desk
(Case flexes just enough to unseat video card)
Boot failure....

Yepper been there. 

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General Software Discussion / Re: corrupt index (I think): how to fix?

« Last post by Stoic Joker on June 21, 2012, 03:49 PM »

NOTE: Currently the Drive Fitness Test does not support 3TB and greater internal drives.

-superboyac (June 21, 2012, 03:35 PM)

Do you think it would be safe to give Seatools a try instead?  or is that not a good idea.  Other forums seem to think it's fine.[/quote]

Hm... That's a tricky one. Generally the error codes tend to be manufacturer specific, so only brand X's software will find/fix certain brand X issues. if it's a Hitachi drive try the newer Hitachi tool first (it does appear to superceed the DFT) and see what that comes up with first.

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General Software Discussion / Re: corrupt index (I think): how to fix?

« Last post by Stoic Joker on June 21, 2012, 03:31 PM »

I couldn't find a similar tool from Hitachi

-superboyac (June 21, 2012, 03:18 PM)

Hitachi - Drive Fitness Test v4.11 b00.rar (818.49 kB - downloaded 530 times.) 

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General Software Discussion / Re: corrupt index (I think): how to fix?

« Last post by Stoic Joker on June 21, 2012, 11:42 AM »

Have you run the drive manufacturers diagnostic (usually a boot CD) on the disk to see what it finds/wants to fix?

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Living Room / Re: Science News Roundup

« Last post by Stoic Joker on June 21, 2012, 11:32 AM »

Tense Film Scenes Trigger Brain Activity[/b]

Visual and auditory stimuli that elicit high levels of engagement and emotional response can be linked to reliable patterns of brain activity, a team of researchers from The City College of New York and Columbia University reports. Their findings could lead to new ways for producers of films, television programs and commercials to predict what kinds of scenes their audiences will respond to.

-Stephen66515 (June 15, 2012, 05:18 PM)

Right. Because righting a good story is just to hard (to mass produce...). Whats next a photo/sound/light sequence that will cause anyone with a pulse to orgasm for 20min straight?? Christ...If they'ed quit trying to short-stroke human emotions maybe the population wouldn't be so screwed up half the time.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Checking Bad sector in HDD and ExtHDD

« Last post by Stoic Joker on June 21, 2012, 07:02 AM »

While I'm not seeking an argument or trying to get overly pedantic, I think this comes down to what you are going to use the drive for and whether or not you're prepared to wear the consequences.

-4wd (June 20, 2012, 08:29 PM)

Understood (as true), I'm just erroring on the side of caution. It's a (reflex/) side effect of primarily dealing with business systems where everything is hyper critical.

 

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Living Room / Re: Humour And A "Serious" Product - Opinions Needed

« Last post by Stoic Joker on June 21, 2012, 06:34 AM »

Personally, after seeing hordes of end users with that (classically pathetic) deliver me from evil look on their face...I think it's perfect.

The mollycoddling PC crowd will always whine about everything, but most normal folk (including the religious ones) will appreciate the humor. It's a refreshing change for the typical (snooze fest) dry as a desert parched bone technical writing.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Checking Bad sector in HDD and ExtHDD

« Last post by Stoic Joker on June 20, 2012, 11:43 AM »

Whether or not you can find a program to mark existing bad sectors, that does not matter. My very sincere advice is: Do not attempt to continue using a HDD once you find it start developing bad sector. Just grabs everything on it ASAP while you still can (So far, Norton Ghost is the best in claiming the most out of a bad HDD)

-tslim (June 20, 2012, 09:37 AM)

+1 - Courting an undead/zombie drive is just too risky.

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Living Room / Re: Apple...Just ever so slightly paranoid?

« Last post by Stoic Joker on June 20, 2012, 11:20 AM »

So no more "Tell us where your leader is hiding, or we will play more Justin Beiber" techniques? Goddamn it, we are all doomed!

-Stephen66515 (June 18, 2012, 01:33 PM)

Two words...... Mars Attacks!

-x16wda (June 19, 2012, 10:30 PM)

Biebers of Mass Destruction?! Wait - if you can get him classified top secret then they'll hide him away and we won't have to listen anymore!

-TaoPhoenix (June 20, 2012, 06:35 AM)

He shall be investigated by top men....TOP men!

-Stephen66515 (June 20, 2012, 10:52 AM)

So... You're saying he's a bottom...

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Living Room / Re: LastPass Finally Showing Its Revenue Plans? Credit Monitoring? Bah...

« Last post by Stoic Joker on June 19, 2012, 02:38 PM »

First of all, IMO credit monitoring is a huge fraud itself. It doesn’t really protect people at all; it just funnels even more money to the organizations that cause a lot of the credit fraud in the first place: the credit reporting companies. Credit monitoring alerts you AFTER someone has fraudulently opened an account in your name. What it does not do is prevent it in the first place. And in many cases the fraud perpetrator used information garnered from that same credit reporting company you're paying for the monitoring service. What a racket! These are the same companies that sell you a peek at your credit report for $10 - $12 but sell that same report to corporations for about $0.20! Yeah, I trust them almost as much as that Nigerian guy who has $11,438,00 waiting for me as soon as I send him my bank account number.

-J-Mac (June 19, 2012, 11:38 AM)

  Much the same goes through my head everytime I see one of those &$%#^$ Commercials on TV.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Ethics and Responsibility Question

« Last post by Stoic Joker on June 19, 2012, 01:34 PM »

I would think ethically, yes ... And strategically no - Leave it up to the "outside channel partner" to report it if/as needed.
(^I tend to equate ethics with morals)

Without a confirmed smoking gun, it just to easy to blow yourself (and/or your friend) out of the water.

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General Software Discussion / Re: From ZDnet writer - Final Thoughts on Windows 8: A Design Disaster

« Last post by Stoic Joker on June 19, 2012, 06:53 AM »

This does not look like a disaster to me: http://www.microsoft...e/en/us/default.aspx

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Living Room / Re: Science News Roundup

« Last post by Stoic Joker on June 18, 2012, 10:08 PM »

One earlier study on reproductive success, in common European birds called great tits

-Stephen66515 (June 15, 2012, 05:18 PM)

Um... Okay... Wait-a-minute... Great Tits is a type of bird?!? ...You gotta be shitting me.

No really your Honor, I was only in a tree at the park with binoculars looking for great tits...

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General Software Discussion / Re: From ZDnet writer - Final Thoughts on Windows 8: A Design Disaster

« Last post by Stoic Joker on June 18, 2012, 08:01 AM »

Is Metro okay for keyboard access? Just wondering if you can flick through things quickly with just the keys.

-nudone (June 18, 2012, 07:56 AM)

Yes, Alt + Tab works (as expected... ) in Metro.