mjp28

I remember one of our engineers getting a Commodore 64, the 64 was not GB, MB it was K. Then the 128 came out, BIG stuff, not even a fraction of a Game boy today. And video games? Yes I do have one.....PONG, in a box somewhere, it was big stuff also. I got my BSBA 20 years and my MBA 10 years before W95. Far out!

We have several predecorated trees all over the house. I like it! Plus we got tired of just the one big tree. ----------------- a little OT-------------- And I have to say LuLu, I love your sig: I'm here. What are your other two wishes? Classic! mjp

I guess so! I'm on member page 57, this forum has got big! I Joined: 3-December 04 So much crap, so little time

WHOA, I haven't been here for awhile!! I just turned 58 three months ago.

Who wants to keep score? How old are you generally turns into a good thread on any board. Hey I'll be 55 in 3 weeks, do you know what you get when you're 55? ...NOTHIN' ... Plus I can't say I'm 27 x 2 anymore.....(but I'm glad it's not 65, MEDICARE, all that stuff)

I remember the 64! Wow, 64K memory.....then the upgrade, Commodore 128. That was amazing how we thought they were cutting edge, well they were. ....here's to progress!!

I'm 27! ....well 27 x 2 = 54 for another 2 months. (I sure don't act 54, whatever that is) I'll then have to figure something for 55. .....didn't we have this thread a few months ago? I thought we did...hmmm.

Can You Trust Your Spyware Protection? Why Your spyware scanner may not catch some adware programs. Andrew Brandt From the July 2005 issue of PC World magazine Posted Tuesday, May 31, 2005 http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,...n053105X,00.asp The next time you run a scan with your anti-spyware tool, it might miss some programs. Several anti-spyware firms, including Aluria, Lavasoft, and PestPatrol, have quietly stopped detecting adware from companies like Claria and WhenU--a process called delisting. Those adware companies have been petitioning anti-spyware firms to delist their software; other companies have resorted to sending cease-and-desist letters that threaten legal action. In most cases it's difficult for customers to determine whether their anti-spyware tool has delisted anything and, if so, which adware it skips. "When a spyware program gets delisted, users won't be aware of its presence," says Harvard law student and spyware researcher Ben Edelman. The practice, he says, "offers spyware makers a new lease on life, letting them keep users who otherwise would have removed their software." Degrees of Spyware Of course, some spyware apps are worse than others. One spyware program may make severe changes to your computer's settings, while another merely displays ads. Claria and WhenU are making the case that their adware programs don't resort to illegal tactics, such as exploiting security holes, to install themselves. And though this software can be annoying, adware developers argue that merely being listed in an anti-spyware scanner's database tarnishes a company's reputation by linking its relatively benign adware application with far more harmful and intrusive spyware programs. According to Avi Naider of WhenU, though some other adware companies will track your Web meanderings and sell that data, WhenU's privacy policy doesn't permit it to track the search queries that users type or the Web pages that they browse..............MORE IN ARTICLE...........

I wouldn't worry about that. (and don't believe all of the headlines, a lot of spin and hype happens....the truth tends to be much quieter and less exciting)

Try the "Zombiemeter": http://www.ciphertrust.com/resources/statistics/zombie.php .....I always like stuff like that.

......Now wether you like it or not, want to face it or not, Visual Basic is a crappy inferior language that isnt good for anything outside the garage...... Rather strong statement. That's like saying A works but B works better (in your opinion) so A should be scrapped. If A were that bad people would be scrapping it en mass and adopting B with little or no coaching to do so. .....but that's just my observation.

Fret About PC Zombie Threat? ZombieMeter Web site keeps hourly count of captured computers. http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,...n052705X,00.asp Scarlet Pruitt, IDG News Service Friday, May 27, 2005 LONDON -- Worried about zombies? Internet users concerned about the number of virus-infected PCs ready to launch an attack over the Web can at least keep track of how afraid they should be--and satisfy their curiosity--by visiting CipherTrust Inc.'s new ZombieMeter resource. The security company added the ZombieMeter to its Web site this week, offering visitors hourly information on the global activity of new zombies by tracking data it receives through its IronMail e-mail security appliances. Zombiesare Internet-connected computers that have been infected by malicious code that allows hackers to control them remotely. They are often used to launch denial-of service (DoS) attacks or send unwanted e-mail. Where The Zombies Are Although CipherTrust only monitors zombie activities based on data from its network of e-mail appliances, it counted an average of 172,009 new zombies a day for the first three weeks in May. Of these, 20 percent are in the U.S. and 15 percent in China. That represents a slight shift from late March and early April, when around 20 percent of the 157,000 new zombies it identified on average each day were in China. The European Union, meanwhile, was a virtual hothouse for zombies, with 26 percent of new infected machines in its member states during the first three weeks of May, CipherTrust said. Six percent of these were in Germany, 5 percent in France and 3 percent in the United Kingdom, the company said. South Korea is also a popular zombie haunt: 10 percent of new infected machines in the first few weeks of May were in that country, CipherTrust said. While the Alpharetta, Georgia, security company said tracking zombies helps it to identify behavioral patterns and predict threats, it was unclear how the information might aid the average Internet user. "I suppose it might increase your paranoia as a home user, or convince you to update your antivirus software," said one London-based IT manager. ------------------------------------------------------- ZOMBIE QUIZ: WHICH ONE IS THE ZOMBIE?

Maybe don't hire them? That might be tricky.... Maybe spam, worms, viruses are just a big conspiracy by the companies that sell the "fixit" stuff, hmmmm (Or jerks with nothing better to do with their lives! Throw 'em in the slammer! Or maybe terminate them. )

Study: Insider Revenge Often Behind Business Cyberattacks Majority of attacks by ex-employees who retain access. http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,...n052305X,00.asp Jaikumar Vijayan, Computerworld Monday, May 23, 2005 Companies hoping to mitigate their exposure to insider attacks need to ensure that they have good password, account, and configuration management practices, as well as the right processes in place for disabling network access when employees are terminated. Also crucial are the need to have formal processes for handling employee grievances and negative events in the workplace as well as for reporting suspicious behavior, according to a report released this week by the U.S. Secret Service and Carnegie Mellon University's CERT Coordination Center. The report is based on an investigation of 49 cases of insider attacks via computer systems in critical infrastructure sectors between 1996 and 2002. In a majority of cases, the primary motivation for the attacks appears to have been revenge, said Matt Doherty, special agent in charge of the Secret Service's National Threat Assessment Center. "In 92 percent of the cases, a negative work-related event triggered the insider action," he said. Good News The good news for companies is that most of the attacks were planned and not impulsive acts, which are "very hard to prevent," Doherty said. A key finding of the study was that a majority of the incidents involved former employees who shouldn't have been able to access the systems after they left the company they worked for, he said. The majority of the cases didn't involve sophisticated attack tools. Rather, they occurred because organizations "neglected to disable access upon termination," he said. .............MORE CONTINUED IN ARTICLE.........

"HeHeHe".........Wow, an original thinker, lol..........

A blonde who's down on her luck is walking through a luxurious neighbourhood looking for odd jobs to do when she approaches a large house. She goes up to the house, rings the bell and the owner comes to the door. He asks the lady what he can do for her. The blonde tells him of her situation, that she is down on her luck and wants to know if he has any odd jobs that she could do. The man thinks about it for a second and then remembers that he has been wanting his porch painted. He asks the blonde if she paints? The blonde says, "Sure anything." "Well, I've been wanting my porch painted, how much would you charge?" the man replies. "I don't know, say $50 bucks." "Sounds good. Go ahead and get started." He closes the door and walks back inside. His wife asks him, "Who was at the door?" He tells her of the blonde and her situation and then told his wife that the blonde agreed to paint the porch for $50 bucks. The astonished wife says, "$50 bucks, but that porch goes the full length of our house and then some. It will be at least a few hours job. You really should pay her more." "But that's all she said she wanted, and anyway she's a dumb blonde!" 10 minutes later, they get a knock on the door. The man answers the door and the blone stands there and says, "All done." With a surprised look on his face, "I can't believe it, you're already done painting the entire porch." "Yes, and by the way it's not a porch it's a Ferrari."

I just think this is nice for those that wouldn't otherwise have access to one, online or just to learn how to use one and use the great learning software out there.

$100 laptops? It looks like it's happening, may be a GREAT thing uniting the world with news, information, FREEDOM!............ http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,...b051605x,00.asp University has developed a plan to bring low-cost computers to children around the world. Martyn Williams, IDG News Service Monday, May 16, 2005 An ambitious plan by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab to develop and distribute a laptop computer costing no more than $100 is expected to take a major step forward next month with the receipt of the first order. Orders from five or six countries, for a total of 6 million machines, are hoped for before a full pilot project can begin, says Nicholas Negroponte, chairman of the MIT Media Lab. He spoke during an in an interview in Tokyo on Monday. The basic aim of the project is to provide a laptop for every child, supplied though any country that wants to offer them..........MORE CONTINUED IN ARTICLE......

Little TONY is sent home from school and says he got an F in arithmetic. "Why?" asks the father? "The teacher asked 'How much is 2x3,' I said '6,'" replies TONY. "But that's right!" says his dad. "Yeah, but then she asked me 'How much is 3x2?'" "What's the f***ing difference?" asks the father. "That's what I said!"

A slow Cessna carrying a student pilot, no charges filed....... http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/a...h/capital_alert WASHINGTON - As a wayward Cessna flew deep in restricted airspace, national security officials were on the phone discussing whether to implement the last line of defense: shooting it down. The single-engine Cessna that prompted a frenzied evacuation of the White House, Capitol and Supreme Court on Wednesday veered away from downtown landmarks just before that decision needed to be made. But it was a close call. One senior Bush administration counterterrorism official said it was "a real finger-biting period because they came very close to ordering a shot against a general aircraft." "How many more seconds away or minutes ? it was within a very small window where there would have been the decision," said the official, who spoke only on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the matter. Administration officials spent Thursday reviewing the bizarre series of events involving the small plane, which was carrying a pilot and a student pilot from Pennsylvania to an air show in North Carolina. It entered restricted airspace and then continued flying toward highly sensitive areas, prompting evacuations of tens of thousands of people as military aircraft scrambled to intercept it. Hundreds of planes have encroached on the airspace since the Sept. 11 attacks, but none is believed to have gone so far ? within three miles of the White House. Lt. Col. Tim Lehmann, one of two F-16 fighter pilots who tracked the Cessna, said he was prepared to use deadly force. He said he realized how serious the situation became when he looked at the Cessna and saw the Washington Monument in the background.......MORE CONTINUED IN ARTICLE...............

Well ****HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU**** Hope you had a good one...

Yes, it's nice to be important but it's more important to be nice. This topic is making me hungry........Hmmm, I haven't had a fried spam sandwich with melted cheese in a long while...

Agreed! I've checked out both, solid sites! All kind of good information on this CCleaner site.

No, I was really good at math, algebra, trig, all of that stuff (never liked calc though, had some REALLY bad college teachers, my calc 1 and calc 2 teachers got FIRED! no joke.)