Recent content by igsi

That article is much more decent than the BBC's one. The exception is that it says "Experts fear Monday could bring new outbreaks" without providing references to experts who fear that. Then, it says "Monday could bring more problems as businesses boot up their computers for the week". Anyone...

Those three quotes clearly indicate that the author does not know what he is talking about and is making pitiful attempt to squeeze another story out of rumors and his own ignorance. My area of expertise is system administration and networking.

Lobster, I skipped whatever you elaborated because it was not convincing. Whatever you posted would not stand a critique. You see, if you do not know how to do things with XP that does not mean those things can't be done, either from within OS or by using free third party tools. I am not here to...

That story is just another bullshit. "The attack was detected by the FBI shortly after it was launched on Saturday, limiting the damage." "At least five of the internet's 13 major hubs were targeted in Saturday's attack." "the attack also disabled some trans-Atlantic internet and phone...

DNS servers should not be behind firewall while SQL servers should. Note, DNS servers are unrelated to SQL servers. They could have been indirectly affected by this worm if part of the payload would be DoS (in that case DDoS) attack on the root name servers, similar to attack on root servers...

Hm-m, is that so?

This is completely untrue. The people who are capable of discovering serious vulnerabilities are either "black hats" or "white hats". Neither go to media first. The "black hats" would never go to media because they use their discoveries to do their business which is hacking into someone else's...

Not completely. See http://www.pcworld.com/reviews/article/0,aid,108480,tk,prx,00.asp

Nowadays it's very common. Perhaps nearly all notebooks have one. 5+ years ago it was not that common, so Toshiba and Apple stood out to that extent.

These message come from the virus infected computers and the attachments are usually infected. The virus writer is trying to lure you to open attachment to check out the message you supposedly sent but which has not been delivered. Why do you get those messages? First, this is not a spam, which...

BCE, gnome, I had my share of making unwise and/or risky decisions. Fortunately, dealing with TCA was not one of them. Sometimes I can proudly say that I learned something on mistakes of others. If you are looking for testimonies of bad experience with TCA, search the WWW, search News Groups...

Without rebate it's $529 and $529 is a rip off. So, you believe whatever sales people tell you, think that nothing bad will happen to you and willing to deal with company kicked out of BBB because it's not significant. I must say that I envy your young age or your incredible luck whatever is...

Last summer CompUSA changed their rebate processing company from Continental Promotions Group (CGP) to TCA. So, "past experience is no indication of future performance".

I beg to differ. To me, that deal does not look to good. Here is why. There are two rebates, one from CompUSA and one from GVision (manufacturer). Some people do not know that but the rebates do not come from manufacturers or from retailers. They come from rebates processing companies. These two...

You are mistaken. Undamaged and properly adjusted high quality mechanical watches are much more accurate than cheap quartz ones. Actually, they are. A weak battery is most likely the reason the computer is losing time. I've never encountered computer clock that was too fast. Did you? I am...