Off Topic Forum

Just in case you haven't seen this yet...

Microsoft late yesterday issued its second advisory of the last week, warning users that a 17-year-old bug in the kernel of all 32-bit versions of Windows could be used by hackers to hijack PCs.

The vulnerability in the Windows Virtual DOS Machine (VDM) subsystem was disclosed Tuesday

More info: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9146820/Microsoft_confirms_17_yea...

To mitigate, click on the "Workarounds" section and use the Group Policy console:

I need guidlines to writing a .bat file, I am searching for a command that types a certain string for example like:
"type: lala" if you had a word processor it would type "lala"
I don't know a function that would find a window name thats running, if you had calculator running it would search it and see if it's running. And if it came back negative (0) or "no calculator found" it would send a message "Please Open Calculator". Here's how far I got

I know that the apps being hosted here are normally configured from a paf.exe installer, but from very intensive experimenting with the installation CDs of Ubuntu 9.10, I found that if you boot from the install disk and go through the options until you get to the partitioner (when you click "Forward" a window pops up saying "Setting up the partitioner", and you have a USB flash drive plugged in, the partitioner doesn't complain about choosing the option to format the USB drive and install Ubuntu on it.

Hi,

The blog LifeHacker has recently published about an option to run Chromium OS from a USB thumbrdrive, of course I couldn't stop thinking in PortableApps.com...

This is the link to the information

Regards.-

I'm curious, have there been any problem reports to the site admins or anyone else about EraserDrop and the whole AutoIt / antivirus false positive issues since its official release?

I am supposed to prepare a stick for someone, I should put there essential things like mailclient (TBP). But the mail is with yahoo. Does yahoo support pop or imap or is it just webmail? I have not one myself.

The semester's ending in two weeks, and I've got some critical deadlines I have to meet in order to make it.
I've been slowly dumping all extracurricular activities, and I've finally gotten to the last - here. I'm signing off until the end of the semester; I'll be back after it's all over.

Bye guys, keep up the great work! See you in a couple of weeks!

(I posted this on Twitter and Lifehacker, I just thought I'd bring some controversy here too. }:))

2010 is not the start of a new decade. 2011 is.
(Knowing that a)there was no year 0, b)a decade refers to a period of 10 years after a multiple of 10 years, starting from year 1, and c)that this statement is only applicable in real math.)
This is further explained in Zero by Charles Seife. Essentially:

Anyone using Google Chrome?
I'm currently using Google Chrome 4.0.249.43.(not portable)

Gmail gives me this error that it can't load certain parts.
Google Reader takes too much time to load.
Facebook Applications Button on the bottom-left corner loads forever when clicked.

I'm wondering if anybody here would be interested in collaborating on a simple enough project.

I lost my flash drive, so I'm using my wife's (I don't think she ever uses it) and since I'm bad and don't back up, I had to start a new profile. Took no time at all to round up my favorite extensions and whatnot, but I found the spell checker was notoriously off.