Posts by Joe User 545 publicly visible posts • joined 30 Jul 2007
My company's OptiPlex GX270 mid-tower machines from that time frame are plagued by bad capacitors. I sent several of them to BadCaps.net for repairs, and they work fine now. However, we also have some OptiPlex 745 machines from 2006 - 2007 that are developing bad caps. Dell may have fixed the worst of the problem, but it definitely hasn't cleared up.
When you buy parts from the lowest bidder, you get what you pay for. Thanks for the crap-tastic machines, Dell....
She defended her goat transportation technique on the grounds that she is British and "transporting goats in this manner is acceptable there".
Two notes for the moronic driver:
1. You aren't in the U.K., you're in the U.S.
2. It gets a damn sight hotter in Virginia than it does anywhere in the U.K.
Tavis Ormandy tweet: "I'm getting pretty tired of all the '5 days' hate mail. Those five days were spent trying to negotiate a fix within 60 days."
So let's see if I understand this correctly. Tavis tried for 5 days to get Microsoft to commit to a fix within 2 months. Microsoft wouldn't do it, Tavis got his panties in a twist, and he posted the vulnerability immediately along with an exploit example.
Thanks you, Tavis, for being a petulant little cock.
"The first of Vicino's planned 20 bunkers is a 20,000 square foot facility buried five stories underground"
I enjoy being under 5 stories of earth and rock when the entrance is collapsed/flooded/plugged by an earthquake, tsunami, asteroid strike, volcanic eruption, . . . .
Thousands of years in the future, we'll arise as the Morlocks.
"I've been trying in vain to get my workplace to switch to an alternative such as foxit for some time."
Apparently, you didn't actually READ the article:
The attack was first demonstrated last week by researcher Didier Stevens. By misusing a feature contained in the PDF specification, his proof-of-concept attack showed how hackers could embed a malicious payload in a document and trick Adobe's Reader and Acrobat applications - as well as the competing FoxIT Reader - into executing it.
Did you see that last bit? Foxit Reader is (was) vulnerable, too. The problem lies in the PDF specification, not in the reader. Last week, Foxit Software implemented a security fix in their reader to head off the problem.
"Adobe used to offer a 'lite' version with cut-down functionality (crazily it only allowed viewing PDF files, imagine!) But I see this has disappeared."
The Lite version has disappeared because is was third-party (unauthorized) repackaging of Adobe Reader, minus some features.
"It is possible it's a pagan ritual and I have had reports of a change in horse behaviour, so if these are children's ponies it is an absolutely awful thing to do."
If your horse turns its head around backwards and projectile-vomits pea soup at you from across the stall, then you have a legitimate concern.
Whereas Cisco's offerings are "closed," Asthana says, Dell's are "open."
Dell's systems are just as "open" as Cisco's, or HP's, or IBM's, etc. Try to find a third-part drive carriage for a Dell server; impossible. Try to order a Dell drive carriage without also ordering a hard drive; Satan will build a ski resort in hell before that happens.
After the i740 fiasco in the late 1990's, I swore that I would NEVER again buy a discrete graphics card from Intel. The only reason that I have any Intel video products at all is because they're built into the chipset. Given a choice, I'd much rather have an ATI or nVidia GPU on board, even if it's a low-end part. They still perform much better than Intel's GMA parts.
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