Nah... she can just about set up an Apache server

( And she knows she'll be checking processes when I tell her to get on top )

...a nitwit nonentity aching for celebrity.

Unix will die just like FORTRAN died

PS. My nick says it all

Seeing that 4chan's Rule 34 has not made it into the Federal Rules, I believe the issue is moot.

(Hey... it's the PUN that is the lowest form of humor, not homonymy)

Never mind about forcing Downadup to run remove_downadup.exe ... how about informing the PC owners involved to run it?! For that matter, why not tell everybody to run it, for good measure?

Of course, all things considered, it might be preferable to rename remove_downadup.exe into get_free_porn.exe

Back when XEROX had the personal computer technology when nobody else did, their top brass decided not to go for it because it was outside their corporate culture. "We are a xerographic company"... The rest is history :(

The RIAA and others seem unable to realize that when something is technologically possible, and becomes known and embraced, it is de facto the new reality and no amount of scheming or prohibitions will bring back the old.

I do remember vinyl LPs, and how the advent of CDs shut down my favorite record stores on Melrose in short order. Nowadays we have P2Ps and other filesharing methods. Nowadays a talented musician can easily obtain equipment and create music away from studios, right there in her living room.

No amount of lawsuits or tricks such as the one under discussion can ever turn the clock back, and I sure hope the distribution companies decide to bow to the inevitable. It is not clear what the new equilibrium is going to be, but I believe they will have at best a small part in it while the artists a much bigger one. Oh, and cost and prices will go down... down... down. The days of huge profits are gone forever.

The sooner they come to terms with reality, the better.

Some time ago I picked up a barcode card for a clearance laptop from the O.D. stacks. Right then I received a phone call and I left the store in a hurry without buying anything.

A couple of days later I was at the same store and noticed that the price was higher, $50 more or so. I bought it anyway... went home, and was able to find the old barcode card in the pocket of the coat I had been wearing the other day

Intrigued, I took the card and the sales receipt back to the store. Well, as soon as they heard my story they INSTANTLY scanned the barcode and gave me the extra money back, on the spot, no manager approval needed, nothing!

At the time I did not realize that maybe, just maybe, something systematic was going on and they had good reason to avoid a fuss and end the matter as quickly and quietly as possible!

Now instead when I see his face

I take him away to that special place

And if he stared too long

I probably wouldn't give a damn

(Woahhhh) Sweet child o' mine...

http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Security/Study-Symantec-Best-at-Removing-Rootkits-Microsoft-Worst/

Tut, tut

Over the years I've bought a couple of laptops at Circuit City, mostly because I found them at a good discount. Service was either non-existent or worse: it took them 15 minutes to fetch from their stockroom what I asked for, and then it was up to me to notice that the model number was the wrong one. They didn't know what they were selling.

It was also downright insulting when they checked at the exit all bag contents against the sales slip, radiating suspicion that their customers were thieves. Fry's Electronics has an exit check too, but much more low-key

These days I tend to visit B&M stores for a hands-on experience and then order what I choose online. I would accept paying a $50 markup for the convenience of having a $1000 laptop in my hands on the spot, but B&Ms seem to want more than that. It doesn't fly.

Let me attempt to assist authorities in prosecuting such heinous crime.

I was at a Kinko's store happily surfing when a girl next to me asked for help. I duly assisted her in setting up her Craigslist "erotic services" ad. [She offered me her business too but I pointed out to her her ad: her hourly rate was higher than what I make consulting. That gave me a graceful way to bow out)

Presently, after a few minutes of exposure, her ad generated responses. The entire room was treated to her loudly intoning "Yes! Yes! (Fsck) me! I love it in my (Ascii)..." Half the people in the room came to their feet, red-faced, while the other half...oh, we were stretched back in our seats laughing our heads off.

There you have it. Guilty as charged.

Aw, cheer up. The good Sheriff might have sued THE INTERNET.

As if it weren't bad enough to be using skewed or insufficient inputs, we also had everybody doing the exact same thing -- seeking a talisman to exorcise danger and legitimize universal greed.

And then it came. Correlation's revenge!

GP may have a point. A small company that called me in as a consultant turned out to be happily living in a computer past -- WinXP, Macs and even Win 2000 machines, as they were sufficient for the software their bread-and-butter work needed. The were all running off a Linux server untouched by human hands for years -- an old SuSE distro, as it turned out. I had to do some Samba reconfiguring and I dreaded what I would have to go through -- but surprisingly it turned out to be a smooth exercise. Let's hear it for old tools still doing good work, and at no monetary outlay for their owners.