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Posted by Banjo on 09-12-10 11:30 AM:

Microsoft will have a big Patch Tuesday

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer...t-patch-tuesday

Posted by Eight on 09-12-10 02:48 PM:

it's a mess, windows was never designed for networking in the first place. Unix and Linux were. Business [trading] software pretty much requires a windows machine and MAC's are far superior for everything else...

The proper thing to do is to learn to set up a white listing firewall and put your windows machine behind it and use it for only business. Get a MAC for everything else and be happy with it all...

Posted by Scataphagos on 09-12-10 02:51 PM:

Quote from Eight:

it's a mess, windows was never designed for networking in the first place. Unix and Linux were. Business [trading] software pretty much requires a windows machine and MAC's are far superior for everything else...

The proper thing to do is to learn to set up a white listing firewall and put your windows machine behind it and use it for only business. Get a MAC for everything else and be happy with it all...

1. I will NEVER "text".

2. I will NEVER own a Mac

3. I will NEVER (probably) own a cell phone.

Posted by intradaybill on 09-12-10 04:23 PM:

Just do not downlaod any files and do not execute any attachements. No whitelisting can save you if you own an email from your girlfriend and then click on the invitation to that great party. No whitelisting can save you if you download freeware or sharewares or worse, buy hacked software.

No whitelisting cna save you if you lack brain capacity.

Posted by Petsamo on 09-12-10 05:10 PM:

Quote from Scataphagos:

I will NEVER own a cell phone.

That is paranoia. You might as well not leave your bedroom.

Posted by Scataphagos on 09-12-10 05:11 PM:

Quote from Petsamo:

That is paranoia. You might as well not leave your bedroom.

Paranoia or "freedom"?

Posted by shortie on 09-12-10 05:15 PM:

Posted by mgookin on 09-12-10 07:27 PM:

Re: Microsoft will have a big Patch Tuesday

Quote from Banjo:

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer...t-patch-tuesday

I don't give credibility to websites that can't get the grammar correct.

It's normal for MS to patch on Tuesday; nothing abnormal about it.

Posted by byteme on 09-12-10 07:36 PM:

Re: Re: Microsoft will have a big Patch Tuesday

Quote from mgookin:

It's normal for MS to patch on Tuesday; nothing abnormal about it.

That's why the article referred to Patch Tuesdays.

Posted by maxpi on 09-13-10 05:42 AM:

Quote from intradaybill:

Just do not downlaod any files and do not execute any attachements. No whitelisting can save you if you own an email from your girlfriend and then click on the invitation to that great party. No whitelisting can save you if you download freeware or sharewares or worse, buy hacked software.

No whitelisting cna save you if you lack brain capacity.

You miss a lot all the time? He said to whitelist the windows trading computer [open the firewall to the broker and the data supplier] and use a MAC for everything else, at least that's how I took it... I do agree that it's the best solution for the problem...

Most people are too cheap to actually get to the good solutions. They want to have cheapshit windows machine, one of them, and use it for business and email and surfing and stealing music... and they don't even want to buy the OS disc so they can reinstall every so often...

Posted by Equalizer on 09-13-10 06:17 AM:

Linux

Posted by WinstonTJ on 09-16-10 02:35 PM:

Quote from Scataphagos:

1. I will NEVER "text".

2. I will NEVER own a Mac

3. I will NEVER (probably) own a cell phone.

how can you text without a cell phone? you border on double-negative status

Posted by atticus on 09-16-10 02:40 PM:

Posted by Scataphagos on 09-16-10 02:43 PM:

Quote from WinstonTJ:

how can you text without a cell phone? you border on double-negative status

Well, one could have a cell phone but refuse to text. I'm "all thumbs". But wait.. for texting, isn't that a good thing?

I could perhaps be talked into a cell phone if it involved SEXTING... receiving on my part, not sending, of course.

And I'm "more than double" negative, pal.

Posted by atticus on 09-16-10 02:45 PM:

Quote from WinstonTJ:

how can you text without a cell phone? you border on double-negative status

1234567890@messaging.sprintpcs.com

Sent via email.

Posted by taclander on 09-16-10 03:11 PM:

I would suggest we quit tolerating hackers(ones that use their skills for malicious means) and start executing them. They cause a great deal of havoc worldwide, and I see it easy to classify them as terrorists and should be handled as such. Make them disappear, with a public leak that they were executed for their crimes. Better yet use the El Fajita method and publish the execution on the web so their fellow hackers get the idea that the world has had enough, and there will be consequences.
I guess I'm just an evil American. Oh well I'm heart broken. ROFL

Posted by shortie on 09-16-10 03:18 PM:

malicious coder execution?

Posted by Petsamo on 09-24-10 01:22 AM:

Quote from taclander:

I would suggest we quit tolerating hackers(ones that use their skills for malicious means) and start executing them. They cause a great deal of havoc worldwide, and I see it easy to classify them as terrorists and should be handled as such.

Hackers are actually good. It forces Microsoft and others to make their operating systems secure. Plus, it allows others like Symantec to profit.

Posted by Petsamo on 09-24-10 01:25 AM:

Quote from Equalizer:

Linux

Linux is vulnerable too, but why keep your sights narrow.

Posted by Eight on 09-24-10 03:37 PM:

Quote from Petsamo:

Hackers are actually good. It forces Microsoft and others to make their operating systems secure. Plus, it allows others like Symantec to profit.

yeah, they've done so much good for Unix/Linux/MAC users..

Posted by oraclewizard77 on 09-25-10 07:13 AM:

I found a solution for a major problem with Windows 7 that is not including in this patch.

If you have facial recognition software which seems to come with certain laptops, you may find that your system hangs and will not boot. I found this to be a problem.

I am also an IT tech, so I went through all the event logs to narrow down why I was having this issue, and found the error messages were linked to this software.

So, easy solution, I uninstalled the software, and just use a password for my Windows 7 Pro laptop.

If you are going to buy a new laptop or desktop, I would advise Windows 7 pro since its more stable, it does come with networking built in, and is backward complaint with Windows XP. All of the above is left out of the other versions of Windows 7. Also, what is nice, I am able to send print jobs to a printer connected to a Windows XP computer, which is not something that could be done with Vista. Also, I like that you can just click to shut down on Windows 7 without it asking for confirmation. Plus it does not have as many warnings like Vista does.

Finally, Windows 7 Pro 64 bit is now supported by trading software in 64 bit mode so if you do want faster trading data and faster application speeds, this is the best trading software upgrade in a long time.

Posted by oraclewizard77 on 10-03-10 07:54 AM:

One other issue I just found, is for some reason, Microsoft media player became the default player for .flv files. Now this would not be such a problem except for the fact that no sound was playing. I thought my computer was really messed up by the retards at Microsoft, but again simple solution, right click on one of your files, and then choose open with to reset it to a non Microsoft application.

Posted by lurefo on 10-03-10 10:26 AM:

Quote from Scataphagos:

3. I will NEVER (probably) own a cell phone.

I've always wondered... Does it ever happen your pigeon gets lost and never delivers the message?

Posted by Scataphagos on 10-03-10 02:50 PM:

Quote from lurefo:

I've always wondered... Does it ever happen your pigeon gets lost and never delivers the message?

Hey.... if I don't have a cell phone, my wife can't find me except for when I'm home.

Posted by mgookin on 10-03-10 04:01 PM:

Quote from Scataphagos:

Hey.... if I don't have a cell phone, my wife can't find me except for when I'm home.

Five years ago I had 17 phone numbers and close to 10 e-mail addresses.

A few years ago a phone was ringing while I was on another. I took the ringing phone and threw it out the window while driving across a bridge. It felt so good I did the same with the phone I was talking on - during the call. I picked up the rest of them off the seat and threw them out the window too. I got home and pulled the batteries out of all of them. I shut off all the computers and went to the beach for a month. Then another month. Then all summer. From there I went to Vegas for a couple months, then back to where I grew up for a couple months, then back home to be lazy for another year.

Today I have one "throw away" cell phone only because a year ago my Dad was dying a slow death and I needed a phone. About 4 people have this phone number.

I have two e-mail addresses today.

Cell phones suck. E-mail sucks. Live with less of both and you live a better life.

I respect anyone with zero cell phones.

Posted by Scataphagos on 10-03-10 04:05 PM:

Quote from mgookin:

Five years ago I had 17 phone numbers and close to 10 e-mail addresses.

I respect anyone with zero cell phones.

I got a sales call for a cell phone one time, and I told the solicitor... "I wouldn't have one if it were free". He said, "It IS free"... he meant the phone, not the service of course.

Even when I had clients, my phone was unlisted. One guy asked, "how can you be in business with an unlisted phone"?..

Maybe I'm just a phone-o-phobe...

Posted by stock777 on 10-05-10 05:47 AM:

no phone here. I don't want to be annoyed when I'm out of the house.

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Posted by blackjack007 on 10-05-10 06:08 AM:

Quote from mgookin:

I have two e-mail addresses today.

Cell phones suck. E-mail sucks. Live with less of both and you live a better life.

I respect anyone with zero cell phones.

i have 2 cells phone and i send/receive a few thousand texts per month (mainly to women). cells are the best invention ever. before, it was very hard to date multiple women at once but with the advent of cells, it's now much easier.

Posted by blackjack007 on 10-05-10 06:10 AM:

Quote from Petsamo:

Hackers are actually good. It forces Microsoft and others to make their operating systems secure.

so fatal car accidents are good too? because they force car companies to make safer cars.

Posted by mgookin on 10-05-10 12:43 PM:

Quote from blackjack007:

so fatal car accidents are good too? because they force car companies to make safer cars.

Microsoft is a hacker. They could sell you software without bugs, but then you'd not be dependant upon them. They have you by the balls.

Keep running those updates which contain kill pills; they love it!

Posted by blackjack007 on 10-07-10 03:27 AM:

Quote from mgookin:

They could sell you software without bugs,

no they can't. it's not possible to write a bug-free application that's 10+ million lines of code.

i take it you've never written anything larger than 500 lines so you have no clue what you're talking about

Posted by mgookin on 10-07-10 06:50 AM:

Quote from blackjack007:

no they can't. it's not possible to write a bug-free application that's 10+ million lines of code.

i take it you've never written anything larger than 500 lines so you have no clue what you're talking about

It's very much possible.

I take it you've never worked in the nuclear industry, written code for airbag deployment or Space Shuttle guidance systems, systems for ICBM's, etc. so you have no clue what you're talking about.

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