ethergeek

Just what we all need...yet another High Definition DVD format, yet another piece of equipment to buy to watch a damned movie...

Aside from being an RDBMS, firebird is what Firefox used to be called, before the firebird (DBMS) project started talking to the mozilla people about the confusion it would cause.As far as embedded DBs though, check out the apache derby project and the hsqldb project. Both offer a wide variety of APIs.

You have the thing hiding its window management components. Just double click some of the space that's not a widget on the task manager window and it will go back to normal.Pretty stupid toggle to wire up to a double click if you ask me, but this is why I run linux

Of course, before using any of the above methods (the init 0, or the holding the button down, or any other methods that don't really give the OS time to close programs and prompt for document saves) close all applications manually and save your data.

Don't forget DSL (Damn Small Linux) if you're working with a smaller thumbdrive. Tha base system is around 50 megs with addon packages available.

Thats how lucky we are .

I really don't see it that way...we went from having a nice command-line, fast interface to our programs, to a mandatory graphical interface (windows) that no longer even allows us to drop back into ms-dos to perform basic tasks without the overhead of a gui.

this is why i run linux. well, its a reason among many, anyway.

Have you tried unplugging it? :blink:How do you shut it down? Via the apple menu? the terminal? button on the front of the machine? keyboard?

I personally like pandora.com for my streaming music needs. After you play with it for awhile, it really does sort of get a feel for what music you want to hear on your stations based upon your input.

Dude, you're shopping at KMART...seriously, you can't expect quality in product or service from that company. They do the bare minimum to keep the prices low. You're getting what you paid for.As far as them not meeting the deadline, you didn't get it in writing, their terms state that ship dates are estimates...I would never believe a deadline from any company unless it was stipulated in a contract.

eww . pukes . lol , so amazed . Imagine KFC and McDonalds with bugs on their burgers and fries

For all you know, their burgers ARE made with bugs. Such low-quality meat... *shakes head*

I want my damn flying car!

I have yet had any games that require FAT32 because shouldn't Windows handle all the I/O requests, and not the game?
xboxrulz

Yep. Windows handles all File I/O requests. The advantage to NTFS in gaming is compression. When you load large texture files off the disk, the CPU is just idling while the disk is thrashing to get the data into RAM...if you turn on compression on the game folder, you offload a little bit of that strain onto the CPU which had nothing to do, previously.

This is only a bright idea if you have a very fast machine...especially in an SMP setup, since most games load routines really aren't multithreaded anyway.

You're probably better off just using a generator that can use the system random number generator...far better entropy.Take a look at KeePass (win32) and KeePassX (gnu/linux) for a really nice password manager/generator app.

Well I don't see any reason to use so much toolbars, but if it is ok for you, it is ok for me.. I personally like the less toolbars as possible and the more comfortable as possible.. That is just bots spoofing as IE4 or the spoofing is made with mistakes, due to the user agent header.. I don't think you should care or you can ban it by using some php or any other language you prefer..

It's not cost-effective to ban the bots...it would take so much time to keep up with them, that it would not be cost effective from a money-saved-in-bandwidth costs perspective.

Just install anti-spam (like akismet) or capchas on user input forms to prevent them from spamming you and you'll be ok.

By the way, I was using Mozilla Firefox, not Internet Explorer

LOL...I use firefox exclusively...how did I not notice that?

i personally wouldve just used flash or director, although you dont want to, it would seem easier!

I agree with the OP decision NOT to use flash/director/some other 3rd party plugin to do this. While they may look pretty and all, loading a flash object/java applet/etc just to do a simple animation seems like alot of unnecessary overhead, aside from requiring a 3rd party plugin to complete a basic user function, which really, in my book, should be a web-design faux-pas.

Ever wondered while copying GBs of data from one place to another on Windows, staring at the file copy animation dialog (which actually give newbies the 'feel' of copying ~ for Xperts, the HDD LED is good enough! ) - and at other times, when you've added a new disk drive (USB Mass storage, or such sort) when on slower systems, opening My Computer shows that (darn) 'Searching for items' animation?

 

Well I was thinking of seeing something better than that puffed-up yellow torch looking around for items in there! Anyone having eXplored WindowsÂŽ directory structure could tell me where WindowsÂŽ keeps these animations? And what type are they? AVI (Sure hope so!) I'd like to spice up the visuals and replace these with some (more) geek animations... Having customized everything else (tight from the cursor to Window Title Bars) ~ this is the only thing that somehow 'doesn't fit in'...

 

I wonder if this is possible? If you do look into it, please let us know!

I'm pretty sure the file copy animations are stored as resources inside the explorer.exe or user32.dll binaries themselves. You can replace them via dll-hooking, which is what Windowblinds does.

 

As for me, the scrolling list of files from xcopy is good enough animation for me

Also, I think you should see the recent post about the most spyware infected pc!!Your browser looks just like it!!

I was going to say the same thing, looking at the number of toolbars he has installed into internet explorer...I can't imagine anyone being OK with half their browser screen real estate taken up by toolbars.

Holy crap bonzi buddy haha, forgot about that little *expletive*. There was some other one too that got installed with SO much software back in the day but I forget what now, I think it was something to store your passwords and unames for you? (ironic haha).
As far as the threat to your social life, my friends already do that whenever they come over so really I wouldn't consider that a threat as it hasn't bothered my life much yet haha.

I have seen computers taken down completely by spyware though, as in unable to boot excluding in safe mode. While usually recoverable it is still capable of impacting your day and if the system was required for something integral to, for example, a business it could be a critical event (although I doubt a business rig would be downed by spyware).

I worked as IT support for a department of about 100 users back when I was in college...no machine is immune to spyware when you have a stupid user at the keyboard. I'd have users who, because of their tenure, demanded their administrative rights and got their machines so bogged down by spyware, and didn't get any work done...then would whine at me as if their idiocy was my problem. It was a crisis when someone couldn't get their work done because of it...it even got my *bottom* strapped to a beeper for most of my time there.

I checked my stats for 2007 and found an alarming number of users in one particular category. Then I checked each month and found this:

 

Lots of requests as shown there! Now what uses IE4 these days?

It's probably a blog/forum/comment spam bot spoofing IE4 as it's user agent. I get those a lot too...thank god for aKismet on my blog and forum

I really hate it when I see people using SSH as a SOCKS proxy like this without telling people that tunneling TCP over TCP is a bad idea. You have 2 layers on top of each other which both provide their own error correction and message integrity, and this can lead to all sorts of problems, and will cause cumulative degradation of the link's bandwidth if the link is anything less than perfect (i.e., over a wireless network where packets CAN be lost).

 

The -D flag to ssh is at best a temporary fix for not having one's VPN working while they fix it, but should NEVER be relied upon to tunnel any substantial amount of data.

Generally speaking I just use apt-get on my Kubuntu system...it's just faster than opening up a GUI package manager...when I know what I want to install. If I don't know the package name I tend to use Adept Package Manager to act as the apt-get frontend, though usually I just fire it up to find the package name and then manually pop it into apt-get...I don't like the GUI hiding output from dpkg-(re)configure from me when I install packages.

I love how there's an AIM window right in the foreground, either implying that it dropped that spyware payload on that machine, or that it itself is spyware...either way, funny as hell.

I'm running Vista on VMWare using Kubuntu-7.04 as my host platform without any problems.

There's a shopping cart software that's part of cPanel...I think it's called Agora or something...check around in your cPanel if/when you get hosting here.