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Comment Re:Kill Adobe reader, not java script (Score 1) 211

by itzfritz on Wednesday April 29, 2009 @03:48PM (#27763355) Attached to: Adobe Confirms PDF Zero-Day, Says Kill JavaScript

The problem is that none of the other commercial readers work as well as Adobe's. Of the three (IMO) main required features of a commercial pdf app (pdf create/edit; in-browser viewing; virtual pdf printer), only Adobe does all three of them well. I am currently using Foxit for the first two, and PDFCreator for the third, and I am not pleased.

Comment Re:How will they handle this? (Score 1) 375

by itzfritz on Tuesday April 28, 2009 @04:08PM (#27750003) Attached to: Cablevision To Offer 101 Mbps Down, No Caps

Or, maybe they've been laying fiber everywhere on Long Island since forever. They beat the pants off Dish Network and Verizon here on LI for a reason...

Comment Re:Great for botnets (Score 1) 375

by itzfritz on Tuesday April 28, 2009 @04:03PM (#27749923) Attached to: Cablevision To Offer 101 Mbps Down, No Caps

"IP WHOIS requests" == ARP (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Address_Resolution_Protocol)

Comment Re:The explicitly avoided topic... (Score 1) 375

by itzfritz on Tuesday April 28, 2009 @03:58PM (#27749837) Attached to: Cablevision To Offer 101 Mbps Down, No Caps

That "shady" capping was for shady people. I've had my u/l capped by Cablevision several times, always for seeding too heavily (and I don't mean the latest distro dvd...)

Comment Re:Starting to pack my things... (Score 1) 375

by itzfritz on Tuesday April 28, 2009 @03:53PM (#27749771) Attached to: Cablevision To Offer 101 Mbps Down, No Caps

Boost upload cap is about 5Mbit/sec. I usually get about 22u/4.5d in my condo complex (western Suffolk County), even with the 2% line loss that Cablevision techs say that I have. I *cannot* wait to get my hands on this new service!

Comment Re:Surprise? (Score 1) 724

by itzfritz on Monday March 30, 2009 @11:29AM (#27388859) Attached to: Reliability of Computer Memory?

My new 64-bit Vista business laptop with R2 and 4 gigs of ram SCREAMS. I run mostly linux boxes, but I frickin love that laptop. If only cygwin was an acceptable replacement for the terminal ... :(

Comment Re:Your choice (Score 1) 958

by itzfritz on Tuesday March 24, 2009 @06:47PM (#27320825) Attached to: How Do You Deal With Pirated Programs At Work?

more info please!

Comment Re:Admin interface open on the WAN side? (Score 2, Informative) 272

by itzfritz on Tuesday March 24, 2009 @12:01AM (#27307761) Attached to: Botnet Worm Targets DSL Modems and Routers

It's necessarily being exploited from the WAN; I've seen poc code that, guessing the gateway's internal ip (typically 192.168.1.1 class c), uses javascript or html trickery to attempt a GET request that modifies that router's config. ex:, on some webpage) img src='192.168.1.1/allow-external-connections.cgi' You get the idea. Dont remember where I saw it, maybe ha.ckers/sla.ckers.org..

Comment Re:The most important thing has been left out.... (Score 0) 388

by itzfritz on Wednesday March 11, 2009 @09:49AM (#27149475) Attached to: iTunes Gift Card Key System Cracked, Exploited

fwiw, http://search.dhgate.com/search.do?act=search&dkp=1&searchkey=itunes&catalog=

Comment Re:Yes, .NET may actually be the best bet (Score 0) 371

by itzfritz on Saturday February 28, 2009 @07:45PM (#27025959) Attached to: Hope For Multi-Language Programming?

Anders Hejlsberg, is that you? ;) If so, Unfair! It's like Sophocles engaged in discourse with monkeys.

The Ouroborus 67

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday January 15, 2009 @02:14PM from the stop-eating dept.

If I could do this I'd never leave the house.

gOS Gadget Aims Ubuntu At Cloud Computing 36

Posted by timothy on Thursday January 08, 2009 @03:20PM from the prettification-always-welcome dept.

DeviceGuru writes "The gOS project has released version 3.1 of its Ubuntu-based Google-centric distribution. The release draws its packages from the Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) repositories, but adds a bright green theme and a few alterations in default applications, but more importantly adorns its desktop with numerous gadgets based on the Mozilla Prism project along with an animated application-launch icon set based on the wbar project."

Hippies Say WiFi Network Is Harming Their Chakras 432

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday January 08, 2009 @01:58AM from the what's-with-all-the-negative-waves dept.

Anti-Globalism writes "A group of hippies is complaining that a recently installed WiFi mesh network in the UK village of Glastonbury is causing health problems. To combat the signals from the Wi-Fi hotspots, the hippies have placed orgone generators around the antennae." Although there have been many studies that show no correlation between WiFi and health issues the hippies say, "Yeah, well, you know, that's just, like, your opinion, man."

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