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You could also just be more judicious about who's machine you shove your flash drive into, and who you let shove their flash drive into your machine. It's really common sense, like sex. If you see someone that uses IE and has alot of toolbars and crap, or seems computer illiterate, don't stick your disk in there.

On another note, you're just asking for a denial of service attack...all I'd have to do is find a nice big linux iso to request over and over again until your bandwidth is all used up (or your php chokes and crashes on trying to create a png image from an image file). Might want to try sanitizing the inputs to your script and make sure only requests up to a certain size are honored, as well as some interval transfer limits for clients so they can't do this.

Yeah...programs that do crap like this are obnoxious. Don't hide your application from the task manager...what use is it to have a task that you need to go into the scheduler's thread table to kill when it malfunctions? Using this trash is just bad coding practice and shows a complete and utter disregard for your users.

You could always use boot camp to dual boot mac os x and whatever other operating system you wanted. apple has drivers for the macbook hardware for xp and vista...

Apple's stuff is a little higher-priced...but despite what alot of people rip on apple hardware for (as long as you don't get anything with a revision 1 logic board, lol) the hardware is very reliable...and lasts alot longer than it's pc counterparts. The latest versions of OSX run on much older hardware than the latest version of Windows do...so you don't need to upgrade a machine to use new software.

I just bought a Macbook Pro recently...I love this thing. Dual-booting OSX and Linux is way better than the old windows/linux dual boot I had before.

utilizing the open_basedir configuration option in PHP is safer as it restricts filesystem access at the runtime level so you don't have to do code checks, just handle the errors gracefully.

Also if you intend to keep both machines on a LAN together, make sure your cloning software supports new SID generation (or sysprep it) for the new box so that you don't have authentication collisions.

Google images and imagefilez are probably blocked because there's no control or ratings on the images. You can pull pornographic images on either and there isn't any other means to regulate it but block the whole site. Well, they could probably do something with safesearch, but I'm sure live search already has such an integration anyway, so it would be in microsoft's best interests to not waste time with google.

Well, on the other side of the coin though, cingular should get with apple to provide a proper (supported) way to unlock the phone per their policy of letting the customer remove the subsidy lock after 3 months of being in the contract.

I'd say your best bet would be to just enable access to % and choose a good, STRONG password, then remove that account's % access location when you aren't going to be working with it for awhile.Might also want to let the site admins know so that they don't think that your violating the TOS by using the SQL databases as storage for another site (I'm not sure if this violates the TOS or not, but when doing something nonstandard and/or unexpected like this, it's generally a good idea to let the sysops know ahead of time what you're doing).

If you want something a little more painless than autoruns, use hijackthis combined with one of the online hijackthis logfile analyzers. They'll tell you what everything is.The other issue that can cause long startup delays is BHOs because they get loaded into memory along with the windows shell, not just IE.

I don't see what the big deal is...it's not like you bought a phone that apple promised you can run whatever you want on it. If you want a phone you can code for and run all sorts of fun things on, go get a PocketPC or a palm based phone.

Just run an older version of windows. Windows 2000 starts up on my box in about 15 seconds. XP takes 30+. Vista...well, Vista sucks.

Here's why I think time machines will never exist...Let's say you want to go back in time to assassinate Hitler before he comes into power...like, drown him as a baby or something. If you create a time machine, go back in time, and do it, one of two things can happen.1. He's dead now, most of WW2 doesn't happen, world events changed. In this eventuality, where time would coalesce back into itself (i.e., not break off onto a tangent of alternate events), what point would your future self have to make the time machine in the first place? Taking the limit of this logic, nobody ever has any reason to build a time machine, so nobody ever makes one.2. An alternate timeline is generated, but the timeline you came from is untouched. This can happen 2 ways. Let's say you go back to the timeline you came from...life has not changed for you, and all you did was create a better timeline that didn't exist in the first place, so you didn't really repair anything. Now what if your trip back to your own time period landed you in the parallel, alternate timeline? Well...you'd be there, but everyone you knew would be in the other one, and most likely you wouldn't even exist in the alternate timeline, so you'd have to start your life over from scratch.In any of these cases, you personally don't see any net improvement with your own life...seems kinda pointless unless we have really backwards ideas on time and of course its nonlinear.

I had to resist the urge to post a link to a Nintendo Power Glove ^^

I've got a 500W PSU (usually under heavy load) with my 2x 19" LCDs running on an APC 1500VA unit, and I have plenty of time to shut things down.I've got my router (an old linux box) and all my networking gear (switches, APs,) running off a separate 500VA one by belkin or something...that one works fine too.

Have you installed the VMWare tools package? This will install drivers for the guest OS for you.

Just use the ietab firefox extension (windows only). It opens an instance of IE in a tab for things like windows update. It also allows regex-based site selection for using IE, also good if you don't want to switch it every time you go to windows update or your company's intranet.

Probably a few things. For one, eclipse manages your classpath for you so you don't need to fill your classpath with all the jars. You may be missing a jar on the commandline. Also, you may be compiling 1.5 code with a 1.4 compiler...this also will not work. Use javac -version to determine what version of the compiler you're using. If it's 1.4, you need to tweak your path so that it points to a 1.5 javac. So you know, eclipse doesn't use javac -- it uses an internal line-by-line compiler (which is why you can still run applications in eclipse if they have errors, you can't do this with netbeans.

oooh...google.icio.us?

OK...I read that site backwards then...thanks for the clarification. This seems pretty cool, but how does it handle things like library dependencies? I assume lina handles dynamic linking and all, but could I say, for instance, pop KDE and all it's prerequisites over to my windows machine and use kicker for my launcher, kdesktop for my shell, and kwin for window management?

Other than linking to the uxtheme dll's, how is this any different or more useful than cygwin? I'm confused...

I'm glad someone took the time to research this...I knew that fiber had gotten cheaper in the past few years, but I had no idea that the gold plating cost more than the fiber...though if you remove all the manufacturing costs, fiber is really nothing but sand anyway, and we have tons of that compared to gold. As for increasing costs...that's inevitable. SATA devices used to be more expensive in the PATA days, but now SATA is standard and costs no more than PATA devices of similar size. Once we start a big push to fiber, manufacturing capacity will increase, costs will go down, and we'll all be happier. It's the early adopters who will basically pay the premium to subsidize the R&D as always anyway

If you have a U3 capable usb drive you can run skype from it in it's full graphical interface without leaving any real traces on the machine it's run on.