but I can just picture trying to explain to the average Windows end user how to install and use Cygwin.
He's referring to the library, not the software environment. It's just a DLL that you package with your software.
but I did notice the internet's smug meter had dropped about 30%.
Norwegian detected.
Nobody in their right mind uses Playboy for masturbation.
So you prefer National Geographic, then?
I hate to break it to you but that statement is contradictory.
Contrary to popular belief, not everyone that is born New England is from Southy.
I'm a peaceful Norwegian with two (many years ago) convictions for possession of small amounts (1-2 joints) of marihuana. My grandmother wants to take me to visit our family in Boston next year, and I'm not looking forward to it at all because of one thing only: US border control and visa stupidity.
The ironic part is that possession of that small an amount of marijuana isn't a criminal offense in Boston due to a law passed last year.
thanks to the Freedom of Information Act that was passed by Democrats over the objections of Cheney, Rumsfeld and Scalia.
What you are referring to are the amendments to the FOIA in 1974. The FOIA itself was passed in 1966 and signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson.
President Ford vetoed the amendments to FOIA, but was overridden by congress. The House voted 371-31 to override the veto, and the Senate voted 65-27.
If you want to read the full story, I suggest looking here, as there are links to scans of the actual documents involved.
Weirdly enough, Johnson was against FOIA, and Rumsfeld was originally for it.
This is most useful when you are on a laptop and the battery might die in sleep.
Laptops don't need to use hybrid sleep mode, because they've had the ability for a while to hibernate when the battery starts to get low, thus saving the running state.
Oddly enough, in Windows, It IS on by default for desktops.
That's because hybrid sleep is meant for desktops, not laptops. Since desktops don't usually have a battery backup, a power outage will cause you to lose your running applications. Hybrid sleep was meant to fix this problem for desktops.
There is a better way: (http://easypark.bm/) Just launched in Bermuda.
It's just plain sad when a 21 mile long island with excellent public transportation and near perfect weather has a better parking payment option than Chicago.
YEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAHHHHH!!!
No, but it does run Netbsd.
Has Netcraft confirmed that the patient is dying?
I went in to a local Shack to buy a soldering iron a couple months ago. They don't have them.
It depends on the store. The one near me has them.
I have no idea who sells soldering irons any more
The Lowes near me also has them.
I live near Boston, though, so if I need a soldering iron, I just go to "You Do It".
In Space No One Can Eat Ice Cream
In space no one can hear you scream for ice cream. We all do it, though.
I may write a book, and it may have some very non obvious and novel story lines, but the book isn't patentable.
There might be a problem with that statement.
"nutcase sitting in his basement with a homemade Faraday cage because the government is using mind control on him"
Omigosh, I need to use a whole Faraday cage now?! I thought the hat was enough.
There is still something that you apparently miss: Windows has vulnerabilities
There is still something that you apparently miss: Every Operating System since the dawn of time has vulnerabilities.
Humor me. Let's work backward in time, alright? Vista was released, in part, to correct or patch vulnerabilities in XP SP3. And, XP SP3 was released to patch vulnerabilities in XP SP2. XP SP2 was released to patch XP SP1. And so forth.
Having stated that my fresh install of XP SP2 was infected immediately after connecting to the web, you declare that XP SP2 was a safe operating system, and that stuff like that isn't possible. Or, at least impossible for a "properly configured" system.
That's right. One of the things I listed was exposed, and that's how they cracked you.
Then, why does MS waste their time trying to make their OS more secure, if it is so secure that SP2 couldn't be compromised, out of the box?
Why does OpenBSD waste their time trying to make their OS more secure, if it is so secure that 4.4 couldn't be compromised, out of the box?
Really, you're not making any points here - this is foolish.
No, you're just so blinded by zealotry that you won't accept the fact that maybe you did something wrong.
I know what I did with that machine,
Did you follow NIST's or SAN's advice for machine configuration?
I know the firewall was turned on,
Did you look at the exceptions?
I know that I had an antivirus installed.
You said that it flagged the attacks. Did the antivirus installation disable the firewall in favor of using its own buggy implementation?
I also know that I felt secure in the knowledge that crackers and script kiddies don't waste time scanning lame-ass dial up networks.
All networks are hostile.
All the same, the machine was hijacked in front of my eyes. You may believe it, you may dismiss it, but you can't win an argument in which you accuse me of "changing something".
Okay, fine, you didn't change anything. Was ICS enabled? What was in the exception list? Was file sharing turned on? These are obvious things to check.
Fresh, out of the box installation, hijacked. You can google for more accounts of similar experiences - or not, as you choose.
All of which have one of the issues that I previously listed wrong with them.
The Windows Firewall when properly configured deflects inbound attacks just fine. Any successful attack is due to improperly configuring the machine.
But whatever, you're trolling, so were done here.
For God's sake, stop researching for a while and begin to think!
