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But apparently also pretty uselessi've got an atari 2600 video games console that works fine. does that count as a computer? i guess not. oh well, it was worth a try.-nudone (October 14, 2008, 06:12 AM)
Only if you have the BASIC Programming cartridge and the twin controllers with the buttons. (I have them!)
-app103 (October 14, 2008, 06:42 PM)
now that IS cool.-nudone (October 15, 2008, 02:35 AM)
Snakebite?gallons and gallons of superb (locally produced) cider-40hz (October 14, 2008, 05:16 PM)
Half-and-half with Guinness...-cranioscopical (October 14, 2008, 07:27 PM)
presume you mean alcoholic cider (? european cider!) - there's a name for that mix .. cant remember it though
Was popular with teens in Ireland when I was growing up: with strong cider - get drunk quick-tomos (October 15, 2008, 03:21 AM)
- fortunately a girl friend of mine didn't like her Hobgoblin, so we traded and everybody ended up happy.NTFS only: Re-evaluates bad clusters on the volume (implies /R)
).*big grin*What's the point of DAS Keyboard?-Deozaan (October 13, 2008, 07:09 PM)
- the point of Das Keyboard is the mechanical quality, not some features.-Curt (October 14, 2008, 03:03 AM)
Sounds like something MONSTER CABLES would try to pull off. Make a plain keyboard with no letter etchings and sell it for $140 claiming the gold contacts made it all worth it.-Deozaan (October 14, 2008, 01:11 PM)
There are currently quite a few open-source data recovery tools available, and I'm not just talking about dd.Do any of those have the ability to restore a volume that has been filled entirely with zeroes, though? I would assume you need some sort of hardware-based attack to be able to do that.
InformationWeek has an article on it (page 5 is the most interesting), with the most eye-opening being the Sleuth Kit and the Helix data forensics distro.
I don't know what 40hz saw, but I assume the same crowd knows these tools as well.-Edvard (October 14, 2008, 11:48 AM)
AFAIK Microsoft doesn't really make money from the OS itself, so shackling OS<>Hardware probably wouldn't reduce the revenue... just a thing to keep in mind.[f0dder]: ALL of Microsoft's software, or just what a regular end-user would ever need?
Good question. I don't know. How about MS Office Super Pro Premium Ultra Ultimate 64-bit?
The danger of lock-in as f0dder noted is slim, since that would shackle OS sales to hardware sales, thus reducing revenue drastically. I'm talking about MS building what 40hz said would be a 'Microsoft' appliance, which is all that any Apple computer really is. (How often do you take apart your microwave or refrigerator?)-zridling (October 14, 2008, 02:36 AM)
Boots pretty fast to DOS, but if you want to run win3.x it takes a while extra. If you cut down the time spent in BIOS initialization phase (which is longer today than back then), I wouldn't be surprised if the OS boot time is about the same...In the place where I was living in the Netherlands I know I have some fully functional 286's, each with 4 Mb RAM and 40 Mb harddrive.The question that arises is: Does a current 64 bit Vista system with 4Gb of memory and terrabytes of storage actually achieve much more than these old 286 systems (grief I remember when 286 was revolutionary!) - and I bet the 286 boots quicker!!!-Shades (October 14, 2008, 02:02 AM)-Carol Haynes (October 14, 2008, 04:25 AM)
Shades: notice that f0dder mentioned that 'a single 0-pass should be enough', that means delete the stuff using a 'secure' deletion, but on its lower setting.Yeah, overwriting all the sectors of the disk with zeroes, not just deleting the files.-jgpaiva (October 14, 2008, 03:27 AM)
It would appear that the Dynex wireless card I have in this PC has taken the liberty of giving itself a static IP - I don't see why else it would take .141 over .3Depends on how the DHCP pool is setup. On home routers/accesspoints/whatever, it's common for the pool to be something like 50 addresses from .100 and onwards.-wreckedcarzz (October 13, 2008, 06:59 PM)
I don't whitelist anything (just did my router, but I don't think that will be a "security issue". Temporarily allowing all on this page FTW!Remember that "temporarily allow all" is the same as a temporary whitelist... and allowing *all* instead of specific sites is probably more dangerous than selective permanent whitelists.-wreckedcarzz (October 13, 2008, 06:59 PM)
I do run with admin privileges, because of games and the constant install/uninstall game I play with my hard drive. DropMyRights looks a bit... over the edge - I have Sandboxie, and anything I download without knowing much about I run in that first (and investigate the files it creates and whatnot). I was hoping it would be a FF add-on, but apparently notAh yes, I'm afraid games could be quite an issue... those are often ill-programmed beasts, especially if you don't eliminate software protection for your legitimately purchased copies. Constant install/uninstall is something I left in the past, but that could be annoying too. I wish I could run sandboxie but I'm on 64bit windows so it's not a possibility - and vmware is too much hassle for everyday testing. If you run your browsers in sandboxie, you shouldn't need DropMyRights, and UAC is less relevant as well.-wreckedcarzz (October 13, 2008, 06:59 PM)
UAC is just the Windows equivalent of the Ubuntu (and I am sure other Linux distros) security dialogYep-wreckedcarzz (October 13, 2008, 06:59 PM)
- except slightly more secure because of the whole Protected Desktop thing UAC employs.but I do MUCH more admin stuff in Windows than Ubuntu, so it is like locking a door every time you go through - eventually your going to get mad and just leave it unlocked for the sake of not going mad and attacking it because you don't want to keep unlocking it (or in most people's case, reverting to XP).-wreckedcarzz (October 13, 2008, 06:59 PM)
Grr, I don't have that - I chose Static IP from my list to see the options and almost screwed my connection. What router/firmware is that Deozaan?You probably tried setting a static IP for the WAN address?-wreckedcarzz (October 13, 2008, 07:07 PM)
Great, more problems for Wi-Fi owners.Notice that you need "a couple" of rigs with those cards, not just a single SLI machine, if you want to take brute-forcing down to a few days worth of time. But it's still a lot more affordable than custom hardware or supercomputers, which is the point
That goes both ways with me; I have Wi-Fi I manage at home, but at the same time, I want into my school's Wi-Fi. Good vs evil. Too bad I can't afford 2 GX2's in SLI.-wreckedcarzz (October 13, 2008, 06:46 PM)
(€599 ~ $810).Take a look at the top 10 posters on this forum. All of them would be perfect candidates for this type of paid posting, here. And if any of them did it, you probably wouldn't know it.But if any of us did that, it would probably be the same high quality posts we usually do, and thus the effect of it probably wouldn't be bad - even if the sub-morality of the things makes me nauseous. I really don't condone the idea, but at least it (probably) wouldn't result in the sub-par crap that spammers usually do.-app103 (October 13, 2008, 05:11 PM)
- if your router is decent, it should support MAC->DHCP mappings - which means that you can basically give some client PCs static IPs, even though they get the address via DHCP. This is really wonderful for managing computers, especially if you have more than a handful but still need to be able to connect to them directly (remote desktop connections through a VPN to machines in another city, for instance).
) - I don't really believe in personal firewall outbound protection, as I've stated in multiple other threads, so Windows Firewall should be just fine.. Heck, I don't even run Antivirus at all, but that's probably hubris on my part. I just haven't found one that I liked (or rather, I don't feel like shelling out for the one I like, namely Kaspersky).
