How I hate this sentence. It's a wrecker's stock answer when someone complains about being wrecked.
I feel the same way, but it's not so amazing after all: you just have to think you can mistreat people you don't personally know, and that probably will never see your face. The amount of cowardice of Internet is far above that of so called real life because of a perceived anonymity.
I take a different approach: I try to behave on the Internet exactly like IRL because Internet isn't something separate, it just happens to be part of my life, both professional and private.
It seems the media already know it, but they don't complain about some little facts being hidden from the public during the transmission, like a past professional singing career...
Obviously I don't believe it. Instead, I believe that the public has been somewhat duped into thinking they have been presented an unknown talent who had no possibility to become famous before entering the show...
Or, to tell it with the words of the near-orgasmic female juror, a little lump of coal turning into a diamond. Those words sound quite damning now. For me they can all go to hell.
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It was amazing for me too, but digging deeper I found this:
Paul Potts (Don Carlos) is a relative new comer to Grand Opera after an apprenticeship in Gilbert and Sullivan in Bristol.. His claim to fame is his 1999 appearance on Michael Barrymore's My Kind of Music. This was followed by singing for Bath Opera in Turandot as Prince of Persia and Herald. He has since performed with The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and spent three months touring Northern Italy as a soloist, training under top teachers Mario Melani and Svetlana Sidrova. He has been invited back for a concert to be recorded and also for a masterclass with Luciano Pavarotti. Future plans include a summer tour with the RPO.
The same Paul Potts, or a cohincidence?
Paul Potts (Don Carlos) is a relative new comer to Grand Opera after an apprenticeship in Gilbert and Sullivan in Bristol.. His claim to fame is his 1999 appearance on Michael Barrymore's My Kind of Music. This was followed by singing for Bath Opera in Turandot as Prince of Persia and Herald. He has since performed with The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and spent three months touring Northern Italy as a soloist, training under top teachers Mario Melani and Svetlana Sidrova. He has been invited back for a concert to be recorded and also for a masterclass with Luciano Pavarotti. Future plans include a summer tour with the RPO.
The same Paul Potts, or a cohincidence?
Seriously, I don't understand the polls that tend to be interpreted as a public appreciation (or lack thereof) of potential or real abilities of forumers who didn't ask for a vote on those same abilities. The results aren't serving any good purpouse, in my opinion.
I don't know if it happens for the same reasons or not, but in my case I think my computer (an old but perfect Athlon 2400XP) is a bit too old to handle well a grid with 32 players. In my case: more players on screen, more stutter. I assume that this is because my computer badly needs a lot of upgrades (CPU and graphics, with all things related) to meet some more demanding computational needs (including large grids on LFS).
Kubica was conscious and complained about a severe pain to a leg, so it's probably broken.
I think he's been lucky, the crash has been quite bad in my opinion, both the Italian commentators (including ex F1 pilot Ivan Capelli) were very worried.
Edit: here's a nice photo sequence.
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Really a bad accident, Kubica's luckily quite well for such a tremendous impact.
More or less, I think the same. But anyway a server-side flexible banning system (with the possibility to choose the best method) would be nice and would be appreciated by people with different needs. Who knows, maybe in the future we will see it.
If you only have to open an outgoing port you should know what router/firewall you're using, and you should have control over it. There's too little information here at the moment, so an answer would be way too generic.
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The server is up, but it seems there are some problems. Port 80 is alive, but not giving the common http answers. Given that a hungarian tested it and it seems to work, I assume there are some problems associated with connections from abroad. Doesn't work for me too. I hope Team Inferno's site to be back up soon for us non-hungarians, it's been very useful for me.
I'd like to spend a word for Team Inferno members too: I met just two of them online and they have been both very kind and helpful: one (Commander) sent me a setup when I asked for one to the people in the server, the other (Szabo) had my personal thanks to the whole team for their remarkable service. Awesome job, Team Inferno.
I'd like to spend a word for Team Inferno members too: I met just two of them online and they have been both very kind and helpful: one (Commander) sent me a setup when I asked for one to the people in the server, the other (Szabo) had my personal thanks to the whole team for their remarkable service. Awesome job, Team Inferno.
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I assume zlclient.exe (a part of ZoneAlarm) isn't doing its job fully at the moment. Unfortunately with no additional info the issue could be traced to several options: ZoneAlarm malfunction, malware, missing or wrong files, even a hard disk problem.
What would I do?
1) Check the system thoroughly for malware and have a quick look at file system and hard disk SMART parameters.
2) Uninstall/Reinstall Zone Alarm, or upgrade if possible.
I would also take a look at the System Service Descriptor Table to see if ZoneAlarm traps some calls to the kernel, and disable ZoneAlarm to see if the error appears again. But I would do this after a thorough analysis of what's running on the computer to be sure not to cripple it in a stupid way.
One thing I wouldn't do, FOR SURE, is blindly substituting kernel32.dll without having a clue about it. It may be a difficult task substituting it on the run but hey, I've seen many stupid and difficult "repair" actions succeed in my career. And at least twice as many fail.
What would I do?
1) Check the system thoroughly for malware and have a quick look at file system and hard disk SMART parameters.
2) Uninstall/Reinstall Zone Alarm, or upgrade if possible.
I would also take a look at the System Service Descriptor Table to see if ZoneAlarm traps some calls to the kernel, and disable ZoneAlarm to see if the error appears again. But I would do this after a thorough analysis of what's running on the computer to be sure not to cripple it in a stupid way.
One thing I wouldn't do, FOR SURE, is blindly substituting kernel32.dll without having a clue about it. It may be a difficult task substituting it on the run but hey, I've seen many stupid and difficult "repair" actions succeed in my career. And at least twice as many fail.
It should however be noted that neither Process Explorer nor Autoruns from Sysinternals can be effective against rootkits techniques, which are nowadays a part of normal malware protection in some cases. In these cases antirootkits like Gmer (and others) are a far better starting point, as long as you know what they do and what they target, and you learn to distinguish good from bad. Definitely not for the novice.
In extreme cases I had to use a bootable CD to do the job (a modified UBCD for Windows suits me right).
In extreme cases I had to use a bootable CD to do the job (a modified UBCD for Windows suits me right).
The best free antivirus imo is Antivir by Avira. I'm no longer using Avast since it had very poor recognition of some trojans (first hand experience on several computers) that had to be cleaned by hand with the same old combination of various utilities (I use lots of them).
In the commercial zone overall I cannot complain about F-Secure, up till now, and NOD32. The best one is Kaspersky also for me.
Symantec (or Norton) is one of the most problematic antiviruses I've ever seen, no longer worth my attention.
In the commercial zone overall I cannot complain about F-Secure, up till now, and NOD32. The best one is Kaspersky also for me.
Symantec (or Norton) is one of the most problematic antiviruses I've ever seen, no longer worth my attention.
I understand perfectly, and your judgement is correct. And I already know, I think I thought the same things.
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It means your imagination is running wild.
Those dongles are authentication devices. No data is kept in them, except what comes from your fingerprints and from asymmetric authentication tokens. You'd have to crack a centralised authentication database to override that and that's not so easy.
What to do to remember passwords? Memory and method. And Truecrypt for important data you have to hide.
Bad for me too and unnecessary in most cases, but still safer than devices that could be stolen/replicated easily.
Although the question isn't for me, I think I have enough expertise to answer in short: no.
Anyway, what you're proposing could be much more safely obtained through biometric authentication. Here's an example.
If you mean to do it in a cheap way, I'll just remember that cheap and safe are terms that generally don't go well together in system administration.
How sadly true.
- I cannot start the remote control software on the server, there's only a black screen with something written on it.
- What does it say?
- That there's a problem reading a file.
- Which file?
- \windows\system32\config\system
- ...
- You still at the phone?
- Not for long. I'll be there as soon as I can.
In brief, MAC addresses are only related to network stuff. There's no way to identify a piece of hardware as unique if the hardware itself doesn't offer the possibility to query the serial number via software, and even then both MAC addresses and SN can be changed if they can be flashed. For NICs it can even be much easier than that because some drivers allow to change the MAC address via software.
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