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woah, that's a nice way of doing that......I had to do the same at work a few months ago but since I didn't hear about the MMC back then we did it the "dump password file->brute force it"-way.Maybe we could make it an extensive tutorial covering both methods? "my way" is especially useful if you're locked out of the admin account...(anyways, I don't have this problem anymore with my personal computer - I can just boot from a live-CD, chroot into my hard drive and change the password )

quakesand: Croation is the language spoken in Croatia [cia.gov]. The dream of actually intelligent artificial intelligence will not be fulfilled before we don't get computers which can see something different than "0" and "1" (though this sentence leaves room for debate: "What is intelligence?"). This is something a computer itself will never develop... Virii and Crawlers don't do real thinking (even though the google algorithm is a pretty neat thing of software... though I actually found a way to trick it into delivering links I actually don't want to find...). The common self-spreading virus does a thing like this: 1) Scan for a computer which has a known vulnerability, usually a virus-specific one (and only this one). 2) Explot it. 3) Repeat. That's just like a mindless factory robot: 1) Check whether the thing to attach something to is there. 2) Attach it. 3) Repeat. Crawling the web consists of two major components: 1) Follow a link. 2) Look up the words words and links in this site. 3) Index the words and follow any links found on this site (if the robots file does not specify something else, though a bot could easily be programmed to ignore the robots file). Even a more complex algorithm would still be the same: Follow the algorithm. If something happens which does not meet the algorithm's criteria - the program either malfunctions (bad) or returns an error and then dies/continues (good). I would accept a "thinking program" if it is able to fix its own bugs. Without _any_ human intervention.

So what are you asking for? If a police state isn't enough, a police world could do the job? Even though this does not make me trust my data to G (changing the CEO might mean changing corporate policy), I am happy to hear that at least some companies pay respect to the separation of political forces. This is the way free states are supposed to work: Those who actually do the repression should not be free to decide why to be repressive... Notice the difference? What's wrong with morphing a picture and what's wrong with physically attacking people?To clarify one thing: The real terrorists are on the other side of the barricades. Who teargassed a couple of city blocks in Seattle, 1999 [with clouds of tear gas getting into flats of people living there, forcing them onto the streets]? Who severely injured hundreds and killed one in Genua, 2001? Who's beating up people who try to stay alive?

delivi: How exactly did you find out about Firefox 2 having more bugs than IE 5? Given the amount of bugs IE 5 has even today, this is a somewhat risky claim, especially if you don't back it up...

adriantc: Then join the translation team. Complaining is easy but if you ever tried translating software you'd realize that doing a decent translation is kind of hard to achieve... ...this site might be a good start for a romanian Firefox: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Glossary/Localization There's usually lots of stuff wrong with software, a rough estimate would be one bug in a hundred lines of code... ...depending on your surfing habits these changes probably won't affect you too much since only the fourth number has changed (2.0 -> 2.0.0.1; the first number is for major releases --lots of new features--, the second is for minor updates --fixing important stuff, adding small features--, updates with even less changes than on the minor level can probably ignored if they don't fix anything happening to you on a regular basis or if you don't want to be on the bleeding edge all the time...)

In a few days, I'll finish my community service as required by the draft. But what then? I actually wondered about this when I began the service 8 1/2 months ago and applied to an orphanage in South Africa but I never got any response from them :/ Half a month ago I decided that I can't wait for a response any longer (well, 6 months should be long enough for anyone to at least confirm that they received an application) and began working on the Camphill application form which I sent in to some irish Camphill Communities [camphill.ie]. To my surprise I received the first response right the next day but they were unable to offer me a room and work before June/July 2007. I feared I'd have to get myself a job for these 6 months but two days ago I received a mail from another Camphill Community: If I'm willing to do so, I could join them in late January - and I'm willing to The last thing dividing me from Ireland are some formal things like handing in my CV, a police report, a health report and letters from two people saying that I'm ok for working with people with special needs... ...and then I'll be off to Ireland within a month

husker: Did you actually read and understand the article you pointed at?many of the other people who posted here: Read and understand the first line in this post :lol:I wonder what would happen if you asked people on the street about the origin of Xmas? And what would people's reaction be when they are told?

bunlytek: Nice try but computers are way less capable of doing things than a human brain. well, if you leave out stuff like memories and maths "The web" is not thinking for itself, it always requires a human being feeding something into it; if asked whether something is right or wrong, just about no computer will say "something in between"...

I just spent some hours watching TV (for the first time in years and I don't intend to do something as stupid as watching TV again) with my dad. Well, he just got out of hospital so I've got an excuse for watching TV with him :)On one of the stations, they showed a movie about a german submarine in the second world war (with lots of shooting, explosions, blood, dead people and the bad bad government people who lost their grip on reality) - and when the submarine crew managed to get to their port of destination, they happened to leave the submarine just in time for an air raid, during which the submarine sank and all of the crew [except for the emo guy who was about to freak out during all the time] got killed.After the movie, my dad pointed out that "war doesn't make sense and never will" - at first, I agreed but when I thought about this when I lay in my bed, a thought struck me: War does make sense and will always do.This theory covers only capitalist societies but it's probably possible to extend it to cover other forms of organizing society:In capitalism, there are two main principles people follow:1) get rich (accumulate as much capital [of virtual value, e.g. money, or real value, e.g. housing, cars, ...] as possible)2) one is only rich due to others being poorTherefore: To become rich quicker than the average person, you have to make the average person get rid of their money, preferrably into your pockets and without your money going the same way.Enters: War BusinessThe common nation is financed by collecting taxes from its citizens.The common nation has an own, armed branch of society (except for Liechtenstein whose last soldier died in 1939 and which hires swiss mercenaries ever since).Military equipment is very expensive, at least in absolute numbers - common budgets contain hundred millions or even billions of Euros.Some nations own high-end military systems, keeping it up-to-date and runnung costs them huge amounts of money each year. But: They only need equipment for a certain number of soldiers (only once per soldier) and a certain number of tanks, planes, bombs. Once they have been equipped with this, they will reduce their military spendings on a large scale.Since a nation with high-end military equipment usually can't get involved into an armed conflict (think of the public opinion, with "public" meaning not only national but also international), they need to get rid of their equipment one way or another when they plan to upgrade.As it will be hard to explain to the average citizen why high-end equipment, paid for by the tax-payer, should be destroyed, it will be sold to "Less Developed Nations" [which can't afford brand new equipment]. This way, Developed Nations get rid of yesterday's war machines and LDNs get their hands on quite new war tools at second-hand prices.At some point in this chain, the old stuff can not be sold to another nation anymore, even though there are lots of years left before it will not be usable anymore. So what should we do with bombs from ten years ago?When we arrive at this point, a war comes in handy: It kills people [well, that's bad enough] and, more interesting from a capitalist point of view, infrastructure and military hardware: bombs (why would anyone want to blow up a million-dollar-piece of metal and explosives?), tanks, planes etc.And this is the interesting thing: Military hardware is state-owned capital. Paid for by public money for things produced in mostly private factories. The money earned in a weapons factory goes to one single person or a group of persons which is significantly smaller than the population of this state; the tax-payer's money does not flow back into his own pockets (well, a little part does; the large sums will be collected somewhere else).After the war, the average person will end up with less capital than before (less money; less infrastructure; less military equipment) and the average person will be busy rebuilding what has been destroyed during the war.On the other hand are those persons who sold the weapons - paying someone to count their money and trying to get the next round going since they won't have to face what they produce. As long as they don't have to do the fighting or cleaning up, there is no reason for them to stop putting weapons into this world.-----Short infos:* Most of the world's weapons are exported from the USA (#1), Russia, Germany (#3), the United Kingdom, France and Israel (#6). China is producing lots of weaponry for its own use.* Germany has given away two high-end submarines to Israel (about 300 million Euros each) and signed a contract to sell three more of them at one third of the regular price to Israel while Israel destroyed most of the infrastructure in the Lebanon's south. The four submarines which are not paid for by Israel are a gift from Germany, 1.2 billion Euros of taxpayer's money.* These submarines are slightly modified in Israel to make them able to launch Israel's nukes.* When the USA pull their military out of one place, they usually sell most of the weapons they brought there because it's cheaper to sell them there and buy new ones than taking them back home.* everytime the political signs point to "war", the value of shares from companies producing military equipment rises

iervan: It's no use to put HTML into a forums post - without the proper plug-ins installed, it won't be parsed (and I suppose OpaQue is smart enough not to install this ). Probably none of us has this image on his/her hard drive anyway :)To answer your question: You'll need to repartition your harddrive (add an ext3-partition and a swap partition) I need to get back to work, maybe I'll check in later today...

TV Show: Real people with real problems act as unreal persons with invented problems who real people with real problems look at to forget about their real problems.After all you told us, the most likely reason you have for bashing someone else is "he's been looking at me funny". Would you like to be beaten up for looking at someone else? If you do, go ahead. If you don't, better think again...

...I didn't like "Im Westen nichts Neues" too much ... but then, it's one of the best war novels I've read, too :)Somehow I can't recall if I already posted that I've read "Confessions of an Economic Hitman" by John Perkins but since I've mentioned it now, I can inform you about me being almost finished with "The wisdom of the crowd"...

maybe this person intentionally set this router up to be publicly available? That's what many people around here do to make internet access available from all over the city (and in some places the network of wifi routers is dense enough to allow you to access your computer at home while being on the other side of the city)......anyways, if you don't have an own method of getting into the internet, I'd consider using "their" router perfectly ok - under the terms of fair use: Don't do anything stupid, don't hog up the bandwidth and definitely don't get them into trouble for <illegal thing> done using their connection.

what you're describing is just another materialization of the virtual thing "money".In the USoNA you have the USoNA-Dollar, in Japan you have the Yen, in the WEU you have the Euro - that's all money, so are your points from the web.If you swap a cow for a horse or a horse for a pair of wheels, you trade something of a real value for something else with a real value (but don't ask me if swapping a cow for a horse is a fair deal).But why should that guy with the wheels want a horse? Why should you carry all your belongings around with you if you go out to find what you need? Enters: Money. Under other circumstances worthless stuff which receives value y the trust put into it by society(-ies)...

It's been mostly a leisure trip for me but I still learned a lot during my week on Sicily As to the equipment: We did not use anything special - except if you consider the usual stuff for walking off-road special: stable boots (IF you do a bad step, your ankles are a little stabilized so that IF you fall, your ankles are not twisted), a backpack plus some food and drinks, warm clothing (well, it's been quite warm up there but on mountains you often get strong winds, just like in the flat land)... ...rubber shoes were ok since we did not intend to step on the hot lava and your common boots don't melt at the temperatures the ground reaches were there is no lava - just about everywhere we went, we could touch it without burning our hands, that's usually a good sign if you're worried about heat flakes: if you get the chance to climb it ... then do it, it's an awesome experience