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[shai]

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I was fucking with an 8086 emulator the other day. casek, get a live version of something Debian based and check out the apt pools..tons of emulators on there...Apple II. Atari 800, NEC, etc...I'm still looking for a PDP-7 or PDP-11 emulator, just to get a clue as to what it took to do the original Unics/Multics coding.

[Mainter]

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done with msce onto cisco

[shai]

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I don't know, Mainter...MEPIS is really good, I'm not even using the offical release and it's kicking the ass off of SuSe already.

 

SuSe is awesome, but 10.1 needs a LOT of work.Thing is, they're already working on 10.2, so maybe that's going to be the next big thing...who knows, the OSS thing evolves so fast, I can barely keep up!

 

As far as how OSS stacks up against MS, it mostly depends on what you need to do.

 

I'm stubborn, so if I can't make it work, I'll hack it till it does work, or move on.

[Mainter]

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good read

 

 

Mom, Do I Have To Fix Your Wi-Fi Again?

 

 

 

http://www.slate.com/id/2143757/?nav=tap3&GT1=8295

[Mainter]

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i fixed it yeah boii i doubled up on a code in my about me box which hide my shit on IE but still having the problem with the music in firefox

[Mainter]

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fuck this im scrapping it

[lord_casek]

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firefox and live radio are not compatible

[Mainter]

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well it works just fine the problem is is that the autostart code will not work so it will start as soon as the page is loaded but on ie it will not start till you press the play button

[Mainter]

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http://imagine-msn.com/messenger/launch80/default.aspx?locale=en-us&source=spotlight hey download this its the new msn messenger works great had no problems yet and you can share files

 

What are Sharing Folders?

 

Sharing Folders are a new and simple way for you to share personal photos, documents, and files with your Messenger contacts. You can create a Sharing Folder by simply dragging files onto a contact name in Messenger. This will create an exact copy of the files on both you and your contact's computers, and create a Sharing Folder that can be accessed from Messenger, and on the desktop.

 

I can already share documents using e-mail. So what's the big deal?

 

The Sharing Folder is easier than e-mail for sharing photos and documents. In a Sharing Folder, any time a file in the folder is added, modified, or deleted, those changes are synchronized with your contact. And it’s a simple drag-and-drop operation to share files—even simpler than the Messenger “send file” and “save as” functions you probably already know about. No muss, no fuss, no setup or configuration. Plus, you can access a Sharing Folder from your desktop to manage files whether online or offline.

[Mainter]

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but i have a feeling these files will be monitored of whats on them so my idea is to zip them with a password on them (because i think someone will be watching for illegal movie and music sharing if you zip them and password protect them with tarball or winrar 7zip any of them programs it will protect you better from getting caught

[Mainter]

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to the person that wanted vista

 

**********************************

Please keep this e-mail for your records.

**********************************

 

Thank you for your interest in Microsoft Windows Vista Beta 2. This email

contains information on how to access the download and the Product Key (below)

you will need to install Windows Vista. You may install Beta 2 on up to 10 PCs

using the same Product Key.

 

Please use the appropriate link below to access the download site for the

language and edition you want:

 

English 32-Bit:

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English 64-Bit:

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German 32-Bit:

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German 64-Bit:

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Japanese 32-Bit:

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Japanese 64-Bit:

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Due to the size of the download we recommend you use the Download Manager

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To help answer questions you may have related to installation and use, we have

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For the latest information on Windows Vista, please visit

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Thank You,

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Product Key:

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dont do it on another partition use VMware or Microsoft Virtual PC or someother program like that you do not need to burn it to a dvd just use an cd/dvd emulator like Alcohol120 or DAEMON Tools and mount the ISO to a drive

 

 

download the http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/getready/upgradeadvisor/default.mspx Windows Vista Upgrade Advisor to see if you got a good enough PC to handle it

[lord_casek]

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mainter: find me in second life. let's go make some money at the casinos.

[shai]

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So how well does Vista work? As soon as I heard about that weird pseudo-DRM on top of NTFS thing, that turned me off for good. What was wrong with FAT? That's one of the few things from MS I still use.

 

And, I'll stick with Gaim, thanks. Works fine, and I rarely IM anyone anyway.

[Mainter]

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dude that thing is so janky graphics suck (and i am confused) what the hell do i do?

[mainterdigerati]

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im done its complete myspace completly fuckin sucks i do not know why i wasted my time but its complete i found a great radio station that has a great mixture of what i was looking for so i did not go with the list of players like i wanted to do at first (i hate coding) its real basic but unique i think what you think http://www.myspace.com/mainterdigerati

[mainterdigerati]

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The IBM and Georgia Tech researchers -- supported by Big Blue, NASA and Georgia Tech -- said the frozen SiGe chips may be able to support "near TeraHertz," or 1,000 GHz frequencies at some point. Right now, at room temperature, the SiGe chips operate at approximately 350 GHz, researchers said.

 

http://www.technewsworld.com/story/51228.html

[mainterdigerati]

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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/06/20/BUGMDJGQQJ1.DTL read

[shai]

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The IBM and Georgia Tech researchers -- supported by Big Blue, NASA and Georgia Tech -- said the frozen SiGe chips may be able to support "near TeraHertz," or 1,000 GHz frequencies at some point. Right now, at room temperature, the SiGe chips operate at approximately 350 GHz, researchers said.

 

http://www.technewsworld.com/story/51228.html

 

Man, that will load Myspace SOOOOOOO fast. :rolleyes:

 

What do they do with that kind of capability? Oh, play chess.....but they proved that computers could beat humans at chess...tic-tac-toe is out...I guess they could program it to find my keys when I lose them.

 

Don't get me wrong, it's just that at that point, it's strictly academic and not too different from a dick contest. No matter how fast they make computers, there will never be-

 

-Accurate weather/geological event predictions

-An end to pi, or the highest prime number

-An answer to life, the universe, and everything

 

Maybe if these guys were sociologists, they could get cracking on a way to convince people that unless humanity learns how to work together, it won't really matter how fast you can make a computer run as long as kids are starving and land is being fought over.

 

Sorry, maybe I shouldn't read the news before I post here.

 

I guess I'm just concerned about where our priorities as a species are, and why so many resources go into developing faster machines that eventually end up in a landfill somewhere.

 

Something to consider.

 

And, yes, it was a bad day. I'm done.

[En Sabah Nur]

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well, they'll be able to find more of pi and higher prime numbers (especially as people continue to test their cpus with prime95)

 

and they already found the answer to life, the universe, and everything.

 

computers are interesting and fun. important, probably not. but we've already fucked ourselves as a species so i don't really know what i suggest.

[lord_casek]

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could mean better weather models, better weapons tech, better servers, better 3d,

better design programs///i dunno i'm tired.

[_nightcrawler]

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im not sure whether any of you saw but i was wondering if anyone of you could hook me up with a link on where i could download AVG or avast or whatever it was to fix my annnoying virus problem.

Can someone PM me if they dont want to put it in here.

 

thanks

[shai]

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AVG-

 

free.grisoft.com/

 

Avast-

 

http://www.avast.com/

 

There's tons of other links out there...I found these on Google in, oh, about a minute. I'm just razzing you, nightcrawler, don't mind me.....it's been a long day. Those link directly to the vendors, so don't worry, they're the real deal.

 

That's another thing- I found Altavista to be a much better resource for tech-related searches. Also, I like to root for the underdog, so check 'em out.

[_nightcrawler]

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thanks for that shai. check your PMs

[shai]

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AVG- http://www.grisoft.com

Avast- http://www.avast.com

 

Both of those are links to the vendors.

 

While you're at it, get these, too-

 

Spybot- http://www.safer-networking.org (anti-spyware)

Webwasher- http://www.cyberguard.com/products/webwasher/webwasher_products/classic/index.html?lang=de_EN (adblocker)

Crap Cleaner- http://www.ccleaner.com (registry and temp file cleaner- this is a really powerful tool, read the directions twice and don't use it if you don't understand how it works- come back here, someone will explain it to you)

ZoneAlarm- http://www.zonelabs.com/store/content/company/zap_za_grid.jsp (firewall- there's a update feature in this that should be disabled, but I forgot the specifics- someone here should know more about this)

 

All this stuff is free, and was used on XP by yours truly. Except for ccleaner, it's all fairly straightforward stuff and easy to install and use. The trick to ccleaner is telling it NOT to erase certain .ini files in the registry- Mainter knows which ones.

 

And, again, if you install any security hardware, you have to uninstall what you are replacing. Otherwise, your comp will turn into a angry gorilla and beat the shit out of you.

 

I don't miss using any of these, personally. All I run now is Guarddog, which is the KDE firewall...somehow it seems to leave the ports alone and filter out the crud.

 

The following is for the other nerds on here....remember the OSX trojan from a few months back? It was embedded in a JPEG of a Tiger screenshot...anyway, turns out the only way it could run is if the machine was in root, and since nobody thought to scan it, people went ahead and opened it up...which ran an executable that fucked up the filesystem and spread through iChat to anyone who was on the host's buddy list.

 

That's when I found out that file extentions are arbitrary in UNIX. They're mostly there as a convenience- for example, if it's a JPEG or BMP, it goes in /pictures, mp3's go into the /music file, etc. But, if you get a file from an untrusted source and don't bother to check it in mc or a text editor, you'd have no idea what the file was, and if it was something similar to the OSX trojan used in root, it would be nothing for it to run, say-

 

umount -f -a

shred -n 50 -z /dev/hda

shred -n 50 -z /dev/hdb

shred -n 50 -z /dev/sda

...

 

-which would completely kill all your drives, mounted or not. I guess it would be possible for someone to add -f to the shred string and skip the umount command, and the user would never see it coming till it was too late.

 

I haven't run across any viruses yet- most of them were written by developers as stress test, I hear...but, I thought it would be a good idea for people who are using open source to know about this. So, check anything you don't trust as a user in mc- it's easy to use, and it tells you when a file is executable regardless of the extension- also, back up your media and config files, and keep an install disc handy- one of the side effects of more folks going open source is the increased chance of this sort of thing happening.

[Mainter]

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bump

 

is everything answered?

[shai]

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Seems like it...someone asked me late last night about how to install Avast, so I did my best to explain the process and told him to ask you or casek if he got confused.

 

Tired...need a nap. See you all later.

[lord_casek]

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it'd be so much easier if we could have a seperate "room"

for this.

[shai]

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I always hear this, and think, "If it was set up any different, it would just be harder to get people to pay attention."

 

You got this whole thing rolling way back when, casek. I'll give you all the credit.

 

It's almost to the point where a separate forum would make sense, but I like things the way they are. People come here, and get advice they can understand from people they can identify with. Think back to when you first started out...I had to put up with tons of BS just trying to get simple questions answered on other boards.

 

If someone wants to set it up, I'd be willing to add my "expertise" to any forum you guys decided to start.

 

I also like the fact that there's a lot of info volunteered on here...most boards don't do that, it's strictly a Q&A format.

 

Basically, shai is okay with it.

[lord_casek]

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yeah, no doubt. i was just saying that it'd be cool if we had our own part of the forum.

i dunno, the way you stated it makes much more sense. writers (or former) giving other writers

computer advice pretty much on-the-fly is probably the way it should be.

 

props to shai.

[shai]

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I always assumed that was the point. It's funny, I have lost 99% of my interest in graff, but I continue to post here.

 

The best advice I have for anyone who writes graff who wants to learn how computers work is to get another computer, and use it like a sketch book. Keep your main box, but learn how to get your game tight on the other one. Try out new apps and operating systems, and take notes...when you feel confident enough with something, install it on your regular computer.

 

At some point, you will probably ditch the second computer and be comfortable enough with your skills to install anything you want....and being able to fix things when they break.

 

That's the way I got better at this, but I still have a lot to learn...oh, and never assume you know everything. Doing so will put you in check every time.

 

Also, be nice to people. That pays off as well.