Posts by Martin Maloney 296 publicly visible posts • joined 28 Jul 2007
...to the bullet-proof bra is the bullet-firing bra, as worn by Ursula Andress in "The 10th Victim."
I saw that film in early 1965, during its theatrical release. To this day, that scene, well, words fail me...
I just added the DVD to my Netflix queue.
Martin
P. S. What is German for "ballistic bosoms?"
What galls me about this debacle is the hubris/chutzpah of Roger Thompson.
There is no doubt that he is aware of the widespread outrage over the behavior of AVG 8. Yet he continues in Scarlet O'Hara mode -- "Fiddle-dee-dee, fiddle-dee-dee..."
Given that there is also a paid version of AVG, someone, if he had any sense of enlightened self-interest, would comprehend that his intransigence might be hurting sales of the commercial version.
Perhaps if someone would kick Mr.Thompson in his inflated ego, he might then fess up, Something like, "You folks are right -- we screwed the pooch. I have directed our programmers to address this issue. A new version will be available shortly. Moreover, current installations will be updated automatically."
They say that the hardest thing about eating crow is spitting out the feathers!
Paris, because even she wouldn't screw a pooch!
Christopher Emerson wrote:
"... If you don't upgrade, you get left behind, and it doesn't give you any grounds for complaining that you can't run the latest software..."
One of my clients is a small medical transcription shop. About five years ago, I built their computers: microATX motherboards w/onboard everything, 256 MB RAM, 40 GB hard drive, Athlon XP 2000+ (or so) class CPUs, WinXP, and MS Word 2K. Over the years, the only maintenance necessary has been the replacement of two power supplies.
The transcriptionists always have at least three apps running simultaneously, plus anti-virus and anti-spyware, running in the background.
The systems are I/O bound, waiting for keystrokes. The boss and the employees are facile in WinXP and in MS Word 2K. MS Word 2K *.DOC files are the gold standard: Attached to outgoing email, the recipients can load them perfectly into MS Word 2K, XP, 2003 and 2007.
Yes, both the hardware and the software are, by geek standards, obsolete. They are, however, appropriate to the work that needs to be done.
"...Thompson points out that AVG only scans the first page of results on sites like Google - unless the user clicks on subsequent pages...."
I do serious research on the Web, thus I use google Advanced Search, and I select "100 results" for "Results per page."I doubt that I am alone in this.
That kinda kicks "...only scans the first page..." in the butt, doesn't it?
Several months ago, having tired of AVG 7.5's penchant for throwing a plethora of false positives, I switched to avast! Thanks, el reg, for quenching any temptation that I might have had for sampling AVG 8.0.
I was curious as to why the iPhone is called the Jesus Phone. So I googled it, and I encountered this video:
http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/06/08/3-weeks-until-the-iphone-goes-on-sale/
I've often wanted to learn how to do computer video work. I guess that I missed my, erm, calling...
The excuse is always "Protect the children!" And, if you protest, then you are demonized as someone who favors child abuse.
Perhaps this AP article will get the idea across:
French to block porn, terror, hate web sites
1 day ago
PARIS (AP) — The French state and Internet service providers have struck a deal to block sites carrying child pornography or content linked to terrorism or racial hatred, Interior Minister Michel Alliot-Marie announced Tuesday.
The plan, part of a larger effort to fight cybercriminality, is to go into effect in September when a "black list" will be built up based on input from Internet users who signal sites dealing with the offensive material, the minister said...
//snip//
Under the French plan, Internet users, via a platform, will be able to signal inappropriate sites and the state, receiving the complaints in real time, will then decide whether the sites are to go on a so-called black list to be passed on to Internet service providers to enforce site blocks....
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5j8n3L3F45SLEJwIdAneWFZ5b7a-gD917A3I82
"...the state...will then decide..."
It reminds me of my favorite line of erstwhile satirist Tom Lehrer, "Sliding down the razor blade of life."
"Oh, no! This site says, 'Sarkozy cheated on his first wife.' And this one is even worse, 'Internet censorship sucks donkey dick!' Blacklist those right now, for sure!"
TimM posted:
"For all the gory detail on the possible problems and some workarounds see Jesper's blog..."
One of the suggestions in that blog is to boot into a WinPE disk. For the uninitiated, this is a CD that boots into a "live" version of XP. There are various flavors, available via BitTorrent.
An alternative is to download a Linux distro that reads and writes NTFS partitions and boot into it "live."
You need a functioning computer to do either kind of download. If you need to impose on a friend, and if your friend's machine isn't already setup for BitTorrent, then the Linux download would be the better way to go.
After you boot into the disk of your choice, rename or delete
C:\WINDOWS\system32\DRIVERS\intelppm.sys
Did anyone actually read the final paragraph?
"Their charges hinge on the allegations that Drew violated MySpace terms of service..."
It is now a criminal offense to violate a company's terms of service?
A mother decided to get even for a slight -- real or imagined -- against her daughter. The unintended consequences were tragic. As Henry Wertz posted, the matter belongs in a civil, not a criminal, court.
From a windows re-install(caused by dll hell) that borked because I'd installed another HDD so the setup file could'nt find the CD drive...
After you install Win2K or WinXP, copy the I386 directory from the CD to the root of your C: drive. (Yes, I'm assuming that C: is your boot drive.) Then run regedit, search for the drive from which you installed the OS, e. g. D:\, and modify the drive letter to C. Keep hitting F3 until you can find no more instances to modify.
After you reboot, Windows will "think" that you installed it from your C:\I386 directory. Thereafter, whenever Windows needs an installation file, will will find it in the C:\I386 directory. Adding or removing drives or changing drive letters won't phase Windows at all.
Finally, you can give your installation CD the, er, boot!
(I'm SO ashamed)
Mine is the one with the hair shirt lining.
And another thing, why do I keep reading "International Federation of the Phonographic Industry" as "International Federation of the Pornographic Industry"?
Q: Do you like pornography?
A: Heck, I don't even own a pornograph.
Well, SOMEBODY had to post it!
Mine is the "Flasher's Special" overcoat.
Am I the only one here who wants to call the "XP, too, had problems, when it was first released" crowd on their nonsense?
XP today is responsive, stable, and you would be hard-pressed to find hardware for which native drivers were not available for it. Moreover, any software released in the last five or so years runs under it.
In contrast, Vista today is slow, buggy, and it suffers from a dearth of native hardware drivers. Furthermore, your current favorite programs might not run or run only in "compatibility mode."
In short, in the Windows familty, the choice is not between XP at one year and Vista at one year. Rather, it's between a mature OS and one that, for all practical purposes, is still in beta.
At a recent hacker convention, an attendee wagered that he could hack into machines without directly accessing them. He won the bet.
He "lost" several flash drives, people inserted them into their computers, code autoexecuted...
Wanna add nodes to your botnet? The curious/greedy will infect themselves, and there's no chance that you will get caught.
A properly programmed flash drive could transmit business plans, accounting data or source code to a competitor. Call it "Corporate Espionage for Dummies!"
An employee unplugs his flash drive from his rootkit-infected home computer, takes it to work and plugs it into his workstation -- instant infected network.
Things were simpler in the days when floppies presented security threats; just ditch floppy drives.
Disable USB ports in the BIOS and then password protect the BIOS? Ban flash drives?
Ain't gonna happen.
And that means that network security will be gone in a flash!
What if climate change (formerly known as man-made global warming) is a total crock?
What if the level of solar activity, rather than that of human activity, drives our climate?
What if the REAL climate change that we're facing is a little ice age?
What if peak oil is a total crock?
What if petroleum is not a fossil fuel?
What if petroleum is abiotic, produced geochemically by the Earth itself?
What if, instead of debating the pros and cons of ethanol, people did the background research first?
If a woman doesn't want her man to have sex with an inanimate object, then it would beHOOVER to invite him to have sex with her!
P. S. Given the penchant of many folks here for wordplay, why is there no "Pun Alert" icon?
P. P. S. If no one on your staff can come up with a design, then icon do it.
Here in the states, during the "drug-crazed" late 60s, the hoaxers got really creative.
A Chicago, IL hospital reported that someone had been admitted to the emergency room after shooting up peanut butter.
Friends of mine and I had entirely too much fun with this one:
"How did he get the peanut butter through the needle?"
"He greased it up with mayonnaise!"
Somewhere in Pennsylvania, it was rumored that some "hippies" on LSD went blind, staring at the sun.
So you see, folks, back then, hoaxers didn't (I'm SO ashamed) meth around.
Re; the clueless cop, somebody should (Why does my mind keep doing this?) bring him to to speed!
"But ... what should Santa say if, in best Xmas tradition, three prostitutes turn up?"
ho ho ho blow
It's right there, in the headline, folks. How could everyone else miss it?
Martin
P. S. I have a perverted computer. Every once in a while, it develops a short circuit, and it blows a fuse!
Windows 2000 and Office 2000 will do everything that most SOHO users need to do. Moreover, both products are mature and dependable.
Win2K is not only for older machines. Even most "bleeding edge" hardware provides driver support.
A bonus is that neither product is "advantaged" by WGA and forced updates and reboots.
Martin
Is there anyone in the Windows IT field who doesn't know about the second Tuesday of each month?
By at least 10 AM Pacific time on Patch Tuesday, the updates can be manually installed. No one is compelled to wait for automatic updates.
Despite my best efforts, I have not been able to come up with any Paris Hilton or Britney Spears angle. However, if one delves back into the 1920s, one can find the Clara Bow angle.
She was known as (I'm SO ashamed) "The IT Girl!"
Old geezer slowly shuffles across room and fetches coat...
Martin
From the article:
* * * * *
The release date of troubled chanteuse Britney Spears' forthcoming album has been moved forward two weeks after some of the tracks found their way into cyberspace, Reuters reports...
A Jive Records statement declared: "Due to these numerous unauthorised online leaks, the label is doing everything possible to prevent and avoid any further illegal distribution of songs, including moving up the release date of the album to 30 October."
* * * * *
Within hours after the CD is released, 320 Kb-quality rips of the CD will appear on BitTorrent networks.
In short, they are "...moving up the release date (of 'further illegal distribution') of the (entire) album to 30 October."
Oh, yeah, that will really "...prevent and avoid..." the nefarious activities of music pirates, won't it?
Perhaps Jive Records should have chosen a medical insurance company that does not provide "no co-payment" coverage for lobotomies!
It's Martin, bitch...and, as far is your performances are concerned, gimme less...lots less...
Despite the attempts by the junta in Burma to "firewall" the Internet, reports are still getting out.
One of the religious protesters has been tasked with keeping the Internet servers operational. He is a the chip monk.
(Well, you don't think that Paris Hilton would be up to the job, do you?)
On a serious note, the Buddhist monks in Burma put the Christian clergy in the UK and in the USA to shame!
Martin
How about the Cult of the Dial-Up Warezer?
Hail, Modem,
Full of Greed,
The tone is with thee.
Blessed art thou among COM ports,
and blessed is the fruit
of thy chipset, Warez.
Holy Modem,
Mother of Baud,
prey for us pirates now,
and at the hour of our downloads.
Amen
Martin
Question: What was the most-pirated computer program of the 1980s?
Answer: MS-DOS.
Question: What was the most pirated computer program of the early 1990s?
Answer: Windows 3.1x.
And it continues today. The dirty little secret is that the computer software market is piracy driven. It is the piracy of Windows itself and of Windows apps that has made Microsoft the dominant force in the personal computer field.
Piracy established the Microsoft platform as the PC standard.
Martin
"Microsoft officials are seeking to dispel rumors the company is performing stealth updates on Windows machines. They are also pledging to be more transparent in the future to prevent such misunderstandings from happing again."
It appears that some code, that was stealthily injected, disabled the spell checker.
Martin
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