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tough luck on all the AOHell pundits who're stupid enough to open messages with attachments and don't run AV software.

Can you spell out CONSPIRACY THEORY?

Given the extremely low penetration of the software in current email clients and servers it's the only likely outcome. The dataset of the trial is far too small because of that low penetration to be in any way useful, but does show that spammers will use technology designed to spoof …

hmm, nice... Organise a police raid on their headquarters. Impound all computers and other records, and get search warrants for the entire membership :mrgreen:

hmm, didn't Blizzard have something along those lines in Battle.net back in 1997 for the Diablo and Starcraft series? MSN Zone also comes to mind, launched around the same time.

The NSA would be foolish not to use the internet to gather data on people they're keeping an eye on. After all, those people also use the internet themselves for intel gathering and communications purposes... And oh, they're not listening in on all your phonecalls. It's no more or less …

welcome to the wonderful world of beta software :mrgreen: :twisted:

And so another blog joins the fray of screaming bloody murder at O'Reilly when there's nothing to scream about. Tim O'Reilly (whom I respect though we don't always see eye to eye on things) was on vacation when this thing blew up and was as surprise and angry about it …

and of course you could do SOOOO much better yourself. Ever considered it might take time to find, fix, test, and distribute something? Anyway, the figure mentioned for Microsoft is completely incorrect. They frequently release fixes for problems that noone ever knew about. The problem is that tons of people …

Without people and companies trying to innovate there will never be anything new. But if you're Microsoft you're reported to be doing a bad thing if you innovate... And if you're Microsoft and you don't innovate you're also reported as being bad... And why can't you see this new format …

Sure, a single frame only and if you click it it will play. Sure, just like those flash ads which replaced the animated gifs a few years ago. Won't be long (weeks I guess, months at most) before you're getting blaring sound and streaming video from ads through your browser. …

[B]"I don’t want my phone to be my PDA, web browser, camera and camcorder. I just want to be able to make and take telephone calls anywhere I need to."[/B] Well said, I feel exactly the same way. And no matter how many megapixels they shove into camphones they're never …

Ajax is nothing new, it's just another scripting language for web applications. And like all of them it's way overhyped.

So the EU complains that their political clout to influence ICANN is less than that of the USA?

Google is far from being the oldest search engine on the web, Lightninghawk. They didn't even exist something like 5 years ago, where Yahoo and Altavista have been operating for a decade or more. If Google (or any other website) are indeed actively promoting illegal activity of any kind they …

Precisely what I've been saying about open source in general for years. There is no quality control worth speaking of, hardly any bugfixing. When you rely solely on people doing it for the kick, you're going to accumulate a group of people who are uninterested in maintaining existing code, especially …

Google have finally realised that Microsoft is fair game if you need some money, whether you have a real case or not (see the EU case, which is a total fraud intended only to extort money from Microsoft to pay some more EU kleptocrats and their million Euro villas on …

In contrast to Apple Microsoft has never told people they can't run their products except on hardware of brand X :) As is well known Apple does just that, they explicitly state that their operating system is not allowed to be used on any hardware not supplied by them (which …

I quite agree with you. Ubuntu is the first ever Linux distribution that installed on my 7 year old Toshiba Satellite without major problems (only had to edit a few lines in the X config to get rid of some minor screen corruption). Everything else (even current distributions of Debian …

hmm, you're rather limiting yourself to a narrow type of certification. You're only considering sysadmin certs, and even then only PC specific ones. Why did you ignore Sun for example? They have some of the best education/certification programs in the business both for software developers and sysadmins.

Do you ever think of anything else but what to think up next as the latest Microsoft related conspiracy theory?

No, Microsoft is leaving the market instead of giving in to blackmail. Had I been Microsoft I'd have done that in Europe too, and immediately revoked all licenses issued to Euro government agencies. Most likely (giving the attitude in many Asian countries towards piracy) sales are already low there with …

I lost my trust in Symantec (and especially their Norton line) back in 1995 and ever since have only been reinforced in my decision to avoid them whereever possible. Programs that corrupt your OS during installation. Programs that just don't work. Worst detection ratio of all commercial AV products I …

And the price? Was planning/contemplating to purchase one spring next year (if my profit share payout will cover it), but if they're getting a lot more expensive that plan won't go ahead.

Again the US is lagging behind. This move is almost complete in Europe already. Of course most users aren't opting for the more expensive "digital" packages, so receive the "old" analogue package over the digital signal. Who needs 100 channels of crap instead of 35 channels of crap after all?

I've no need for a computer to control my life away from my computer... But then I'm an oldfashioned kind of person. My fridge doesn't order my dinner for me, my TV doesn't tell my VCR there's a movie I might like on channel 5342 at 23:40 and to tell …

I see a company bent on global hegemony over all information, a company doing its utmost to destroy all competition where it comes to the spreading and collection of data with the ultimate goal of being able to control all thought and thereby the actions of all mankind. If they …

Where is longevity in the equation? AMDs on average don't last nearly as long as do Intels, inducing a far higher lifetime cost for a system that's not built to be replaced as soon as the next fad hits the market. Intels can last 5-10 years, AMDs often don't go …

That's even slower than PPPP (Postal Pigeon Ping Protocol). Let's hope the beancounters don't terminate the project prematurely to save a few thousand dollars (I think the entire yearly budget is now under $50K) like they tried to do last year... Note to self: install longer lasting powersources and more …

Not the only reason. The performance of the AGP bus is also a limiting factor. Unless an AGP-16x standard came around the current crop is pretty much as fast as they can get. And also remember that the card manufacturers often also make mobos. Unless more PCI-E cards hit the …

Now if they only were economically priced... Add a screen, keyboard, and mouse and you're looking at €1500+ for a system that can't be expanded and is low on harddisk space.

What we're starting to see is market saturation as more and more people are content with the access speed they have and don't see a need for anything faster. To get a far higher percentage of connected households adopting broadband the price would have to drop dramatically at this stage, …

Interesting. So even Blizzard aren't immune from the phenomenon of forgetting to test sideeffects of changes outside the immediate context of those changes.

yes, the requirement that mods cannot introduce adult or violent content (which is effectively what they're saying) effectively means that modding capabilities will have to be either removed or extremely limited. Take a game like Morrowind. Nothing adult in it, nor extreme gore and violence (except for a red haze …

Anti-competitive measure in the extreme. Effectively reduces the choice of software to a single package, OpenOffice. And that's of course what it's designed to do, the Demokratik Peoples' Republik of Massachessets has set out on an anti-Microsoft fatwah several years ago and this is the culmination.

Well said Thomas. The deluge of people calling themselves "web designers" and "web developers" after having read "build your own website in 24 hours" has destroyed what value the name had. At the moment it's precisely that sort of person who's expected to turn up at a job interview, while …

Nothing really new there, except the names. The plans to introduce a stripped lowcost version for the 3rd world have been known for at least a year. The other versions (except maybe "ultimate") seem simply equivalent to similar products already in existence for XP. Home, Media Center, Pro, SBE, and …

Quite simple. They set up a site in no time and targeted that site at the largest possible market. They didn't have time to test whether it worked according to expectations anywhere else so can't support that. That's not to say they deliberately wrote it to not work on other …

They CAN be used for single documents. In that case the document is effectively cut up into paragraphs or short chapters with each becoming a page. Of course we're talking about rather large documents here, such as scientific research project results which can run into hundreds of pages. Effectively a …

Smart move. Microsoft was frequently scolded for not writing XP to make optimal use of new and upcoming hardware at time of release. Of course I foresee a lot of criticism now about "Microsoft forcing people to buy new PCs to use Vista", but that's simply because there's a group …

Never saw any offer like that here (and I was in the Amsterdam Apple store yesterday to get some advise on the things for possible future purchase), must have been local to your country :)

It's not really any different from running DX7 games on a DX9 installation. The calls are different so there's another entry into the HAL that's used. I doubt another software layer needs to be added, and if it is I doubt you'd notice the difference unless your system is already …

Well said Thomas. Personally I've resolved myself to not answer any question from people who type like that, instead mocking them for their laziness. English isn't my first language either, in fact when first learning it I was extremely bad at it. It took me 5 years to reach basic …

and a hefty legal bill (but then, they'd likely not pay for that themselves...). I'd consider their actions at most to be a civil offense, except for the snooping (which may have been illegal). If the uni was stupid enough to write down a root password in cleartext on the …

What nagscreen? I've never had a nagscreen as I've always had a licensed version :) Was wondering when they'd start asking money for upgrades, can't blame them. After using Winzip as a licensed user for 10 years on an almost daily basis the cost to me is now so low …

What you fail to mention is that a service pack will not just integrate hotfixes, it will also contain thoroughly tested versions of them. So if a hotfix fixes the problem but introduces a smaller problem elsewhere which isn't critical, the service pack will address that problem by replacing the …

Looting is inexcusable for whichever reason. And most of the looters won't stop at stealing some food from a store, they'll concentrate on electronics, jewelry, and other expensive yet portable luxuries (as has been shown time and again in the past). What disgusts me is that there's no large international …

Sounds perfectly reasonable for customers to be cut off from a service if they deliberately or through ignorance (despite attempts to teach them which are obviously being made) cause problems with that service. It's no different from people being cut off from 911 calls who repeatedly make fake calls as …

"As I write this, Hurricane Katrina is pounding Lousiana and Mississippi. Major powerlines are down, communications are out, and people are using radios all over the place to communicate, and provide disaster relief. The National Hurricane Center is coordinating efforts on 14.325 MHz, with support people all over the US …

Landfall 60 miles from New Orleans around 5AM local.