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General Software Discussion / Re: Company audited my computer. Found many "unauthorized" software. Lol.

« Last post by nosh on May 20, 2009, 01:47 PM »

lol! Reminded me of those guys from Office Space who were in charge of the layoffs.

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Living Room / Re: Flight simulator site avsim.com loses 13 years of community data to hacker

« Last post by nosh on May 15, 2009, 02:41 PM »

Not to make light of stuff but by some bizarre coincidence...
*fade in twilight zone music*

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Living Room / Re: Flight simulator site avsim.com loses 13 years of community data to hacker

« Last post by nosh on May 15, 2009, 10:03 AM »

That's really sad - and what a cruel wake up call! 

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« Last post by nosh on May 15, 2009, 02:10 AM »

Airline complaint:

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Living Room / Re: Tech News Weekly: Edition 19-09

« Last post by nosh on May 10, 2009, 07:48 AM »

I've decided to stop posting articles about data leaks and breaches except in exceptional cases from now onward as there are just too many of them.

I'm with you, though I do think the recent hacking of the Virginia health database (& subsequent ransom demands!) is especially reprehensible and worth a mention.

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General Software Discussion / Re: WINDOWS 7 THREAD (ongoing)

« Last post by nosh on May 06, 2009, 10:18 PM »

I wonder if Acronis' "convert backup to virtual disk" functionality is already compatible with the new VM. If would be awesome if we could just shift the whole install to a VM on Windows 7 and take our time shifting stuff to the native OS.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Best Firefox security addons?

« Last post by nosh on May 05, 2009, 09:22 AM »

He's also having problems with Ghostery, this guy obviously believes in taking a proactive approach.

Ghostery Watches the Web Sites that are Watching You. Find out how web sites are watching you across every page on the web with Ghostery. Ghostery alerts you when you visit a web site that has web bugs on it. Web bugs are hidden scripts that track your behavior and are used by the sites you visit to understand their own audience.

From the Ghostery site:

Attention all NoScript users

Tonight I learned from Mark Pilgrim that the NoScript Firefox extension is arbitrarily blocking Ghostery’s notification window. This is the window that notifies you about which web bugs were found on the current page. NoScript is doing this without their user’s consent and without the option to turn off this behavior.

http://news.ghostery...n-all-noscript-users

Edit: Seems it's the NoScript site (not the extension) that's disabling Ghostery - read the comments to the Ghostery post.

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Living Room / Re: The entitled generation....Are they right?

« Last post by nosh on May 05, 2009, 02:26 AM »

OK, time to flame Brandon!! 

For the technology portion: More security, tighter security, and more laws won't stop people. Only people will stop people. And people won't stop until they can afford their usual real life luxuries, plus their virtual ones, with money to spare. And that doesn't look like it is going to be anytime soon.

Well said! And thank you for not being a hypocrite.  Hope you can hold on to that when you get to the "ethical" side of the age divide.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Program At This Site????

« Last post by nosh on May 02, 2009, 12:13 PM »

You mention saving desktop space so I assume you're talking about launching programs that aren't already running from a popup menu.

If so, Windows does what you need by itself - no 3rd party apps necessary.
Create a folder anywhere on your system - add a bunch of shortcuts (apps, folders, docs, whatever) to the folder.

Right click the task bar, Toolbars -> New Toolbar and browse to the shortcut folder.

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What's the Best? / Re: Video Splitter: What's the best AND easiest?

« Last post by nosh on May 02, 2009, 10:41 AM »

I just can't get over the fact that almost all these software houses have two separate products - one for splitting and one for joining, I'd have thought they're two sides of the same coin!

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« Last post by nosh on May 02, 2009, 07:41 AM »

They get away with broken bones _if_ they're lucky. 

Here's the kicker - some of these pots that they try to get to and break are tied to power lines... would make one heck of a YouTube video if something were to go wrong - can you imagine a 1000 guys getting zapped at the same time?

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« Last post by nosh on May 02, 2009, 07:27 AM »

LOL - seems like a fun afternoon! 

BTW, the Indians have taken this sport to the cutting edge - we get to witness the insanity every year as part of a Hindu festival.

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« Last post by nosh on May 02, 2009, 04:49 AM »

Tennis: A man's game!


Mona Lisa Phone Home


Awww! 


Stagedive fail!

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Living Room / Re: how to improve DC's usability: the stackOverflow model

« Last post by nosh on April 30, 2009, 11:25 PM »

Alternatively, how about doing the "AMEX thing": Member since mm/yy

-40hz (April 30, 2009, 11:17 PM)

Or we could be subtle and create a baby badge --->
 

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Living Room / Re: how to improve DC's usability: the stackOverflow model

« Last post by nosh on April 30, 2009, 02:08 PM »

I don't think I like the idea of karma and voting or anything that creates 'elitism' or divides members in any way.

-Gothi[c] (April 30, 2009, 11:01 AM)

That coming from a DC Server Admin Charter Honorary Member! 
j/k 

I'm not in favour of elitism either but if there were to be some, I'd rather it be based on cerebral contributions rather than monetary ones. *ducks*

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General Software Discussion / Re: Top Greasemonkey userscripts that you use

« Last post by nosh on April 26, 2009, 03:33 PM »

IMDBAge
IMDB Ratings Adder
Multi-Column view of Google search
Twitter search results on Google
ewemoa's DC script (slightly modified)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Start Panicking! ... and polishing those tin foil hats.

« Last post by nosh on April 26, 2009, 01:48 PM »

My bad. I thought you were referring to the site being discussed. Sorry about the confusion.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Start Panicking! ... and polishing those tin foil hats.

« Last post by nosh on April 26, 2009, 12:39 PM »

AFAIK, the server you connect to knows your IP (from the HTTP header) whether the site has any graphics or not. The pixel hack would only come into play for email or if a third party wanted to monitor a site s/he didn't manage - eg: monitoring a forum's activity by inserting an image hosted on your own site into a post or sig.

The email address might be got using the cached auto-fill info.

Jimdoria,
From a purely technical POV, are you saying that it's not possible to get the info startpanic gathers using JS, unless a user actively triggers off the process by clicking a button? Isn't JS loaded & run automatically with a page unless you're blocking it?

Edit:
Spyjax - Your browser history is not private!
http://www.merchanto...kebeta/tools/spyjax/

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General Software Discussion / Re: Start Panicking! ... and polishing those tin foil hats.

« Last post by nosh on April 26, 2009, 01:19 AM »

Reminds me of those graphic buttons people used in their sigs back in the days when a lot of people used Netscape for everything, web, mail, news.
You press the button and it tells you your email address, ip address etc..

-MilesAhead (April 26, 2009, 12:14 AM)

Yes, but doesn't the server have access to that info in those cases? If a script can be run to dynamically generate info and display it for the user, can't it also relay it back to the server?

PS: The site also offers to check a friend's  history and tell you about it. I sent it to myself & ran the script and sure enough it sent me a link to the (already generated) results.

PPS: I could be way off the mark but I _think_ it's done using this hack.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Start Panicking! ... and polishing those tin foil hats.

« Last post by nosh on April 25, 2009, 04:40 PM »

I installed it - then got annoyed with the extra housekeeping involved - and uninstalled it.

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General Software Discussion / Start Panicking! ... and polishing those tin foil hats.

« Last post by nosh on April 25, 2009, 05:36 AM »

Start Panic! is a site that shows you your browsing history. It won't be a great revelation for the real tech-heads on board but was quite an eye-opener for me. The site seems to do what it does using JavaScript - I'm off to take a serious look at NoScript. 

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Replace Hourglass with Quote from text file

« Last post by nosh on April 22, 2009, 05:09 AM »

Random quotes, funny facts, system information like cpu usage...

-Coeluh (April 22, 2009, 03:37 AM)

Little (expandable) thumbnails of girlie pix!!!
No? OK, I'll just shut up.

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Living Room / Re: Recommend to me the BEST USB stick to get

« Last post by nosh on April 19, 2009, 04:37 AM »

Corsair makes some pretty rugged drives.
Corsair Flash Voyager GT – Fastest USB pen drive in the world?


Tip: Try and get one whose cap isn't easy to lose.

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Living Room / Re: for the past 50 years, American students were taught bullshit

« Last post by nosh on April 18, 2009, 01:36 PM »

as a native English man, i can tell you that my grammar skills are almost zero.

-nudone (April 18, 2009, 11:45 AM)

Reminded me of an interesting quote:

"A British advertising man with a proper education can make magazine copy for ribbed condoms sound like the Magna goddam Carta." - Stephen King

My favorite quote (by far):

"Loosers!!!" - Internets

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Living Room / Re: WIkileaks: My Life In Child Porn

« Last post by nosh on April 18, 2009, 03:45 AM »

I finally read through the article, well... 90% of it. His take on the social aspect of this issue seems very self-serving and I took it with a fistful of salt (sorry, couldn't resist commenting. :p) - but the tech bits were fascinating.

Thanks for a very interesting read, Ehtyar.

*bump*